Successful animated TV series Family Guy is reportedly heading towards the big screen, with a Family Guy movie apparently in the pipeline for the future.
Family Guy has already spawned a direct-to-DVD film in the form of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, but Seth MacFarlane now wants Family Guy to hit the cinemas, and confirmed this recently at an event arranged to celebrate the 100th episode of American Dad.
“Fox wants it. We know what we want to do with it. It’s just a question of finding the time,” said MacFarlane when speaking with Wired.com.
Beavis and Butt-Head did it in 1996, South Park did it in 1999, The Simpsons did it more recently in 2007, and now Family Guy is looking to do it also; make the transition from the small screen to the big screen, and hopefully do so with some degree of success.
The Family Guy TV series has arguably seen better days, the same could be said when The Simpsons Movie was released though, and given that Matt Groening was successfully able to pull it out of the bag with a very impressive film; there’s therefore a chance that Seth MacFarlane will be able to do it also.
It’ll definitely be interesting to see what can be done if a Family Guy film is made, and hopefully soon there’ll be more official news that Family Guy is indeed coming to the big screen.
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