Aug 9 2007The Simpsons Movie went through 166 drafts
According to Deadline Hollywood, Jim Brooks, the producer/writer for The Simpsons, claims The Simpsons Movie screenplay went through 166 drafts. Which just makes absolutely no sense. I mean The Simpsons Movie was decent enough, but for 166 drafts you'd expect liquid gold to pour out of your eyes after watching it. If I had to guess I would've gone with two, three drafts tops.
Reader Comments
1. Funk Prophet - August 9, 2007 1:04 PM
well, I had to have sex 166 times before I got that right... or do I have it right...
2. SuperGreen420 - August 9, 2007 1:55 PM
Thats shameful really. If that's true then the movie really is a failure. The Alaska sub plot was shit house.
3. wily - August 10, 2007 6:32 AM
166 drafts, and the final version only include 2-3 good jokes?
Here I was hoping that they just threw the whole thing togheter in a weekend or something with the help of 10 or so homeless people sleeping outside Fox studios. Coz then you know, it would make sense.
4. Mr Pink - August 10, 2007 7:15 AM
I loved that movie. But I still find new episodes of the simpsons hilarious. I'm a sucker for yellow people.
5. Bobby - August 10, 2007 12:37 PM
I guess they still have enough material for 165 more episodes.
6. Tyranter - August 10, 2007 3:02 PM
"The Alaska sub plot was shit house." - and thats understating how bad it was! baaaaad sub plot.. baaaaad! may as well of thorwin in one of those stupid simpsons songs that fills 5mins of a season episode when the writers just cant be @ rsed to write anoithung funny for the end of an episode.
7. John Raide - August 11, 2007 2:58 PM
This is fine, South Park dethroned The Simpsons a few years ago.
8. regular - August 12, 2007 11:47 PM
Bear in mind I am the biggest Simpson fan ever.
But the movie sucked the stale turd out of a dead man's ass. It then took that turd, put it in a blender, and added all the chessy used up jokes you've ever heard. It then poured the malty shit out of the blender onto an ashtray, and then dumped that nauseous garbage into a toilet plunger, which, in case you were wondering, was already reeking of diarrhea, into a small brush fire, which only amplified the smell.
That's how fucking shitty the movie is.