Is Fox recasting Futurama??

[60'schild]

Fox can bite my shiny metal a**.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Blah!!! The voice actors are important and produce what we like about the characters once they are animated. I would have negotiated some more rather than just alienate (pun intended) fans. Now if they do a different take on the property ala Star Trek, maybe I'd give it a chance, but to me it is too much like the Dick Seargant for Dick York thing.

[Seeker]

Fox can bite my shiny metal a**.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Wow, that takes away any excitement I had about seeing the show revived.

Chris

[Mikey]

If it's anything like the past few "movies" it's going to suck and get cancelled quick anyway.

If DiMaggio, West and Segal were smart, they'd stay far away from it.

[60'schild]

Now aintcoolnews is confirming it...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41722

Bad news, everyone:

Comedy Central’s new episodes of “Futurama” are apparently going forward without the participation of core cast members Billy West, Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio.

From Fox:

"We love the Futurama voice performers and absolutely wanted to use them, but unfortunately, we could not meet their salary demands. While replacing these talented actors will be difficult, the show must go on. We are confident that we will find terrific new performers to give voice to Matt and David's brilliantly subversive characters."

One assumes they found out how Harry Shearer became a multimillionaire playing Mr. Burns and Smithers on “The Simpsons.”

Salary disputes were rumored to be the cause also of West’s exit from radio’s “The Howard Stern Show” a decade or so ago.

[60'schild]

It certainly sounds like it...

http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/07/17...ting-futurama/

From Newsarma:

Forces of Geek has reported that while Fox may be resurrecting Futurama in 2010, the fate of the voice talent behind the show may still be in question:

According to no less than cast members John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, and Maurice LaMarche on their Facebook pages, a casting notice has gone out to replace actors DiMaggio, LaMarche, Billy West and Katy Sagal.

Now, while I wouldn’t go so far as to call this “callous,” like Forces of Geek does, this could have some major reprecussions on the show, considering Fry, Leela, and Bender are all potentially on the chopping block.