Month: October 2025

COMING ATTRACTIONS

Standard stock images of Homer and Marge in front of a poster for the upcoming Simpsons movie.

Last month, Disney shocked the world by announcing the long-awaited follow-up to 2007’s The Simpsons Movie by unceremoniously dumping a teaser image on Instagram. In this modern computer age, the sheer tonnage of information being blasted at you like a shotgun can be overwhelming, making it pretty difficult to keep up. So, as a service to you, here’s a list of everything we currently know about the upcoming sequel:

  • The release date (July 23, 2027)

Now here’s a list of things that have not yet been officially confirmed:

  • The title
  • The cast
  • Who’s directing it
  • Who’s writing it
  • Who’s producing it
  • Who’s scoring it
  • What it will look like (2D? 3D? Live action??)

When the theatrical Bluey movie was announced last year, they put out a press release with all kinds of information about the film, creative team, and plans for its release, peppered with quotes from executives and creatives. It seems odd that Disney has yet to do the same for this upcoming Simpsons movie, which is being released two weeks earlier. Should fans be concerned about the lack of information? Is this movie being rushed and everything’s in flux? Could they be pulling a switcheroo on us? Has the unproduced live-action Krusty sitcom from the 90s been turned into a movie??? Be sure to keep checking IN THE NEWS to stay up to date with the latest news as it’s tortured out of the writers.

WORD OF APU

Skeletons of Apu and Snake in a long-abandoned Kwik-E-Mart.
In a shocking twist, Simpsons writers did the unthinkable and killed off beloved supporting character Apu.

In last night’s episode, the skeletal corpse of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon was seen in a long-abandoned Kwik-E-Mart, implied to have engaged in a gun battle with his frequent adversary Snake Jailbird. It’s a sad fate for this father of eight.

There had been a lot of controversy about the character in the past decade, leading voice actor Hank Azaria to step down from the role, but the show refrained from recasting the character or writing him off the show… until now.

It is unclear if Apu’s death will be a permanent part of the show moving forward, or if fan outcry will force the writers to bring him back to life in the next episode, like they did with Marge in the season premiere.