| Futurama: Bender's Game | |
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| Directed by | Dwayne Carey-Hill |
| Written by | Eric Horsted (Parts One and Two) Michael Rowe Eric Kaplan (Part Three) David X. Cohen Patric M. Verrone (Part Four) |
| Story by | Eric Horsted David X. Cohen |
| Produced by | Lee Supercinski Claudia Katz |
| Starring | Billy West Katey Sagal John DiMaggio Tress MacNeille Maurice LaMarche Phil LaMarr Lauren Tom David Herman |
| Edited by | Paul D. Calder |
| Music by | Christopher Tyng |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Futurama: Bender's Game is a 2008 American direct-to-video adult animated science fantasy comedy film and the third of the four Futurama films that make up the show's fifth season. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 4, 2008.
According to the Beast with a Billion Backs DVD commentary, the film, which spoofs Dungeons & Dragons, was in production when Dungeons & Dragons creator, Gary Gygax, died. The film contains a post-credits tribute to Gygax in the form of a title card and a clip of him from the episode "Anthology of Interest I". Elements of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and George Lucas' Star Wars are also parodied. The title of the film is a pun on the book Ender's Game,[1] by Orson Scott Card, though the Futurama film has "very little to do with the subject material" of the book.[2] Conversely, the 1985 book also used "Bender" as a mocking pun for "Ender", but Matt Groening stated[3] this is not the original inspiration for Bender's name.
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- ^ Futurama Animators Roll 20-Sided Die With Bender's Game
- ^ Bender's Game Just A Pun (Wayback Machine)
- ^ "Intellectual Names". Sci-Fi Baby Names: 500 Out-of-this-world Baby Names from Anakin to Zardoz. p. 119.