Groening Announces An “adult Fantasy”

Language: JP EN DE FR
New Items
2023-11-19
users online
Forum » Everything Else » Culture and Media » Groening announces an “adult fantasy”
Groening announces an “adult fantasy”
 Garuda.Chanti
Offline
Server: Garuda
Game: FFXI
user: Chanti
Posts: 11097
By Garuda.Chanti 2017-07-26 18:19:53
Link | Quote | Reply
 
Netflix’s next animated comedy is an “adult fantasy” from the creator of “The Simpsons”
Quartz

Quote:
Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons and Futurama and perhaps the most coveted name in animation, has landed at Netflix. The streaming giant announced that Groening’s Disenchantment, an “adult fantasy,” will be the next show added to its already impressive repertoire of animated comedies.

Disenchantment will take place in “Dreamland,” a collapsing medieval kingdom where a “hard-drinking young princess” (voiced by Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson) will encounter all sorts of mystical creatures, including ogres, imps, and “lots of human fools,” according to a Netflix announcement.

The series will fittingly be about “how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots,” Groening said.

Others in the voice cast include Nat Faxon, Eric Andre, and several people Futurama fans will recognize, namely John DiMaggio (who voices Bender), Tress MacNeille, and Maurice LaMarche. Netflix ordered two 10-episode seasons of Disenchantment, which will debut in 2018.

Groening, a 12-time Emmy winner, had been in talks with Netflix for more than a year. Disenchantment will be his first major project since Futurama was canceled by Comedy Central in 2013. Of course, the animator is still making new episodes of The Simpsons, the longest-running American scripted primetime series in history. The legendary animated sitcom debuted in 1989 and was recently renewed for an unfathomable 29th and 30th seasons.

Like it’s done with many other genres, Netflix has tried to carve out a niche in adult animated fare. In 2014, it debuted BoJack Horseman, an animated sitcom starring actor Will Arnett as the voice of a washed-up, alcoholic horse who used to be the star of a family-friendly TV show. A year later, the streaming service released F is for Family, an animated comedy created by and starring comedian Bill Burr.

In addition to Disenchantment, Netflix has also greenlit Big Mouth, an animated show coming later this year with an incredible voice cast including Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jenny Slate, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, and Jordan Peele.

Netflix announced earlier this month that it now has 104 million global subscribers, a number it’s reached in part by relentlessly investing in new original content from big names like Groening.
[+]
Offline
Server: Excalibur
Game: FFXIV
user: misacat
Posts: 3176
By Nadleeh Sakurai 2017-07-27 13:31:11
Link | Quote | Reply
 
[+]
 Leviathan.Comeatmebro
Offline
Server: Leviathan
Game: FFXI
user: Rairin
Posts: 6052
By Leviathan.Comeatmebro 2017-07-27 13:34:08
Link | Quote | Reply
 
A Chanti post that not only doesn't make me cringe, but is legitimately interesting? Neat. Looks like it'll be a great show.
[+]
 
Offline
Posts:
By 2017-07-27 14:53:31
 Undelete | Edit  | Link | Quote | Reply
 
Post deleted by User.
 
Offline
Posts:
By 2017-07-27 14:59:37
 Undelete | Edit  | Link | Quote | Reply
 
Post deleted by User.
Offline
Posts: 24505
By Ramyrez 2017-07-27 15:22:27
Link | Quote | Reply
 
Garuda.Chanti said: »
Netflix’s next animated comedy is an “adult fantasy” from the creator of “The Simpsons”

He already made a show like the Simpsons, but for adults.

It was called Futurama.
[+]
 
Offline
Posts:
By 2017-07-27 15:59:05
 Undelete | Edit  | Link | Quote | Reply
 
Post deleted by User.
 Bismarck.Ihina
Offline
Server: Bismarck
Game: FFXI
user: Ihina
Posts: 3187
By Bismarck.Ihina 2017-07-27 16:20:10
Link | Quote | Reply
 
Bring on the tentacles
[+]
Log in to post.