Seth McFarlane was on The Adam Carolla Podcast (which I highly, highly recommend) the other day, and the discussion eventually turned to The Family Guy movie, which is apparently in the works, and… may included live action? Here’s the exchange:
MCFARLANE: I can say with definitive assuredness that it will be out. Within the next few years. We already know what it’s gonna be. We’ve been trying to lock into something that makes it so that it has to be a movie, as opposed to an extended Family Guy episode. And I like the Simpson’s Movie, but that’s something they could do with animation on TV because they’re not constrained by sets. [...] You have to find some way to make it so that it has to be a movie.
CAROLLA: Are you hinting at some live action?
MCFARLANE: Possibly, possibly. Here and there. It will not be a 90-minute Family Guy episode.
That sounds like a lot of work. And judging by how many Family Guy episodes are on at any given time, Seth McFarlane must have roughly 18 bajillion dollars. If I were him, I wouldn’t be making movies. I’d be sitting by the pool while my buxom assistant fed me nachos. Because I don’t like to get the cheese on my fingers, you see.
I’m still on the fence when it comes to loving Family Guy or hating it (it’s hard to judge something where half the jokes make you laugh and the other half make you want to punch yourself). Regardless, I’ve always gotten the feeling that Seth MacFarlane would rather be making broadway musicals (take that for what you will). Recently, he went on Fox’s Talk Show with Spike Ferestein [Editor's note: What? Who?] to sing this mildly amusing musical number. “Valentine’s in Hollywood” references topical matters like Lindsay Lohan’s lesbionity, Tom Cruise’s gayness, and Angelina Jolie’s labia. No matter how you feel about Seth MacFarlane, you have to admit he has a ridiculous voice. Hard to imagine it coming out of a guy in his early 20s like he was when he started. It’s actually terrifying. Imagine getting served coffee by a guy who looks like Shia LaBeouf but has Harry Shearer’s voice. I’d probably just get scared and hit it with a shovel (always my first instinct).
[via BWE]
Fox’s $100 million man Seth McFarlane, when he’s not voicing lisping effete babies and churning out once-funny primetime cartoons, lends his vocal talents to big screen comic book adaptations, as he did for Hellboy II: The Golden Shower on Your Moms as some uptight German-sounding thing in a mechanized suit. As with the movie, Stewie’s performance is getting high grades.
That reminds me of the time I voiced the laughing rat in Jabba’s palace in Return of the Jedi.
[Sequence wholly unrelated to the preceeding commentary but containing a reference to an obscure '80s actor]
Aaaaand scene!
-Christmas Ape
