A trailer for a live-action movie based on The Simpsons, featuring Adam Sandler as Homer, has recently gone viral on social media and YouTube.
The YouTube channel Multiverse of AI released the trailer last week on August 8. Although the name of their channel should have hinted to viewers that the trailer might not be for a real project, speculation about a new film gained plenty of traction.
As previously mentioned, the trailer starred Sandler as the father figure, but it also included Kristen Wiig as Marge, Jacob Tremblay as Bart, and Young Sheldon’s Mckenna Grace as Lisa.
The fake Just Go with It star also narrated the clip, describing each character in the show: Will Ferrell as Ned Flanders, Steve Buscemi as Montgomery Burns, John C. Reilly as Barney Gumble, Bill Hader as Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, and more. Even though fans couldn’t help but feel that these actors could portray these iconic characters well, the eerie, warping AI visuals—and the fact that most of the AI-created characters looked considerably younger than they are now—made this exact creation far from reality.
The trailer ended directly after introducing the characters. There was no mention of a release date or any producers involved with the film.
While Matt Groening, the creator of the Fox sitcom, has said he has “no doubts” that a second Simpsons movie—in its animated form—will happen, a sequel isn’t actively in the works right now.
In 2014, producer James L. Brooks said the team was “asked to [develop it].”
