Comedy Central airs the world television premiere of Futurama: Beast with a Billion Backs this Sunday, Oct. 19. The latest feature-length movie based on Matt Groening’s and David X. Cohen’s animated television series has been broken up into half-hour installments to air as a four-part story arc.
Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs is the second of four new feature-length adventures based on the cancelled FOX series. This latest adventure finds Bender, Fry, Leela and the rest of the crew caught up in a disturbing, yet sensuous, interplanetary love story when they run afoul of a repulsive, planet-sized creature with billions of probing tentacles. Guest stars lending their voices to the film include David Cross (Alvin & The Chipmunks, Arrested Development), Brittany Murphy (King of the Hill, Sin City), Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons) and world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.
The Beast DVD hit retail in June and features commentary from Groening and Cohen, cast members Billy West, John DiMaggio and Maurice LaMarche, director Peter Avanzino and producers Claudia Katz, Lee Supercinski, and Michael Rowe. There’s also an entire 30-minute “lost’ Futurama adventure produced for the Futurama video game, featurettes titled Meet Yivo! (behind the scenes with David Cross), storyboard animatics, deleted scenes, bloopers and a sneak peek at the next Futurama epic, Bender’s Game, which will debut on DVD on Nov. 4 and later premiere on Comedy Central.
