Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
DVD cover
Directed byPeter Avanzino
Screenplay byKen Keeler
Story by
Produced by
Starring
Edited byPaul D. Calder
Music byChristopher Tyng
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release dates
  • February 23, 2009 (2009-02-23) (United Kingdom)
  • February 24, 2009 (2009-02-24) (United States)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder is a 2009 American direct-to-video adult animated science fiction comedy-adventure film based on the animated series Futurama, and the fourth and final of the direct-to-DVD films that make up the show's fifth season.[1] The film was written by Ken Keeler, based on a story by Keeler and David X. Cohen, and directed by Peter Avanzino. Guest stars include Phil Hendrie, Penn Jillette (credited with Teller), Snoop Dogg, and Seth MacFarlane, who sings the theme song.[2] In the movie, Leela becomes an outlaw when she and a group of ecologically-minded feminists attempt to save an asteroid of primitive life forms and the Violet Dwarf star from being destroyed, while Fry joins a secret society and attempts to stop a mysterious species known as the "Dark Ones" from destroying all life in the universe. The title itself is a reference to the U.S. Air Force Song, the main chorus of which describes reaching "Into the wild blue yonder".

The DVD and Blu-ray were released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on February 23, 2009, while the film itself premiered on February 6, 2009, at New York Comic Con.[3] It made its broadcast premiere on Comedy Central on August 30, 2009.[4] The film and its predecessors together comprise season five of Futurama, with each film being separated into four episodes of the broadcast season.[5] It won the 2009 Annie Award for Best Home Entertainment Production,[6] and 20th Century Fox and Comedy Central cited sales of Into the Wild Green Yonder and the other Futurama direct-to-DVD movies as one reason Comedy Central decided to renew the Futurama television series in 2009.[7][8]


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