The path to this movie was a loooooooong one, with the idea to make a theatrical film said to have been considered early into the show’s run. Directed by longtime episode director David Silverman, its screenplay came from 11 writers, all of them Simpsons vets, including Groening, Mike Scully (showrunner of seasons 9-12), and Al Jean (showrunner for seasons 3, 4, and 13-33, and co-creator of cult classic cartoon The Critic). The Simpsons Movie released on July 27, 2007, and is a film whose creators basically have the show encoded into their DNA. ![]() And in the case of its first and surprisingly onl y theatrical film, time has proven how everlasting this show will remain. ![]() Depending on who you are, time hasn’t entirely been kind to the show, whose 34th season is presumably due to air in a couple of months. Is there a family in media who’s persisted quite so much as The Simpsons? Matt Groening’s five-person (and one dog!) family of yellow oddballs has been going on strong since 1989, as long as some of our parents have been married, if not alive altogether.
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