Twenty years ago, the producer James L. Brooks saw the famous cartoonist Matt Groening’s "Life in Hell", hoping to use the cartoon image in it for Fox’s TV show "Trish You "Ma Show" produced several short animated films. But Groening was afraid that he would lose the copyright ownership of this work, so he created all the family members of "Simpson" on the spot in Brooks' office, and the name came from his own family.
As early as when the first season of the TV series "The Simpsons" was aired, the film company had contacted Matt Groening and producer James L. Brooks to discuss the intention to adapt the TV into a movie.
Al Jean, the executive producer of the TV version of The Simpsons, is also one of the film's screenwriters and producers.
James L. Brooks is also the film's screenwriter and producer.
The film version of The Simpsons has an all-star creative team including David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, George Meyer and Jon Witty (Jon Vitti) and so on, there are 11 people in total.
When the creation just started, they encountered difficulties. James L. Brooks said: “We were too nervous about it, so we unanimously decided to give ourselves a period of relaxation. It took almost a whole year before we found the production again. The joy of the TV version.” The screenwriters gathered together to formulate the outline of the script, and then divided it into 7 blocks, which were created by different screenwriters, each writing about 25 pages. One month later, they Gathering together again, combining the 7 "chapters" together, it became the first very crude script of the film.
The following two years were spent on revisions. Almost 100 versions of the script appeared during this period. It was really an arduous and torturous process. David Milkin said: "Although the length of a film is only Three times as much as an episode of a TV series, but it took us hundreds of times as long."
