In a recent Wired Seth McFarlane has detailed a possible Family Guy theatrical film.
This is what McFarlane had to say about the film:
We want to do it. Fox wants it. We know what we want to do with it. It’s just a question of finding the time. That’s why The Simpsons took so many years to do theirs. It wasn’t because they didn’t know what they wanted to do with it. They just couldn’t fit it into the schedule. There’s so much to do for a weekly animated series — twice as much as you have to do for a live-action show. So, we’re finding time where we can. We’re in the early stages right now.
On a recent episode of the Adam Carolla Podcast, McFarlane gave a few more details:
MCFARLANE: I can say with definitive assuredness that it will be out. Within the next few years. We already know what it’s gonna be. We’ve been trying to lock into something that makes it so that it has to be a movie, as opposed to an extended Family Guy episode. And I like the Simpson’s Movie, but that’s something they could do with animation on TV because they’re not constrained by sets. […] You have to find some way to make it so that it has to be a movie.
CAROLLA: Are you hinting at some live action?
MCFARLANE: Possibly, possibly. Here and there. It will not be a 90-minute Family Guy episode.
I used to be the biggest Family Guy fan, but after it’s come back from the dead I find it mindnumbingly awful and boring. I don’t know if I grew out of it or it truly is not up to par, but don’t count me excited for this film. I really enjoyed the Simpsons film and hope Fox gets it right with the Arrested Development film if it ever gets made.
Are you excited for a Family Guy film?