A first look at the second Simpsons movie was premiered at Disney‘s D23 Entertainment Showcase – check out footage below.
The first Simpsons film was released in 2007 and following its release, an episode in season 19 (He Loves To Fly And He D’ohs) opened with Bart’s usual chalkboard gag, which saw him writing over and over on the board: “I will not wait 20 years to make another movie.”
Creator Matt Groening went on to fulfil Bart’s prophecy, with the forthcoming sequel – which was announced by Disney last year – set to hit cinemas on September 3, 2027, exactly 20 years after the first film received its world premiere in Springfield, Vermont.
Per The Wrap, the film – with a revamped title of The New Simpsons Movie – features clips of Homer and the gang at a baseball game as they chase a runaway ball. Eventually, the entire town is after it, with a mob flocking to Moe’s Tavern, where his pickled eggs are mistaken for the ball.
In mostly storyboarded clips, the chase continues through a hospital and into the Duff Brewery, where the ball winds up in a giant tank of beer, with Homer chasing it through the refinery and eventually getting blasted out of a smokestack.
#D23 the second half of the New Simpsons Film sneak peak pic.twitter.com/LEiMJEG1Gh
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The New Simpsons Movie premiers September 2027.
Attendees of #D23 are seeing early footage of the movie. The scene showed Homer chasing down a home run ball through a stadium and into Springfield. pic.twitter.com/moOLvA9AHz
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Homer winds up back in the baseball stadium, with Bart casually picking up the ball, prompting a “D’oh!” not only from Homer, but from everyone who chased the ball with him.
Elsewhere at the expo, fans spotted an official new logo for the sequel alongside a recreation of the infamous Homer emerging from a garden hedge meme.
The new clips arrives shortly after The Simpsons star Nancy Cartwright gave her thoughts on when she thinks the show will end. The actress, who has voiced Bart Simpson alongside various other roles on the animated comedy since its inception, was asked when the animated show will finally finish on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside Of You podcast Cartwright responded: “40 [seasons].”
“You think it’ll stop at 40?” Rosenbaum asked. “Yeah,” Cartwright confirmed.
“You’re sure?” he asked again. “It’s my opinion,” she said.
When The New Simpsons Movie is released next September, the long-running animated sitcom will be heading into season 39.
The Simpsons was renewed as part of a four-season renewal last year. Earlier this year, Cartwright reassured fans that she won’t be replaced by AI when she retires.
“I think I would choose a successor [instead of AI], and I’ll tell you why – because AI has no heart and I think that’s a missing ingredient,” she said at the time.
“[AI] might sound pretty close to Nancy Cartwright, but I got passion. We’re spiritual beings, we can emote passion and uplift people and stuff. And I don’t know that a computer can do something like that.”
