The Beast with a Billion Backs

The Beast with a Billion Backs is the second of the four Direct-to-DVD films to be released in 2008. In a recent interview with David X. Cohen, it is suggested than in about six months from now. Which would be around May, 2008.

As of 8 July, 2007 the voice acting for all the films (which includes the fifth season) is finished, according to Lauren Tom. It will guest star Stephen Hawking, David Cross, Dan Castlaneta and Brittany Murphy.

According to a recent Wired article, "The Beast With a Billion Backs," can be viewed as a full-length movie about a creature that carries on a simultaneous affair with everyone in the galaxy.

The sneak peek from the special edition of Bender's Big Score exclusive to Best Buy appears to be telling the story onward from where Bender's Big Score ends, namely the riff in time and space. What we can tell from anamatic is that the riff is the gateway to another universe, and soon some huge tentacles comes out and starts controlling Fry, who becomes pope of a new religion (notice the tentacles in the teaser image from Futurama Returns below).

Apparently, this is followed by the entire human population "dying" and going to "Heaven", and thus giving Earth onward to the robots, because robots don't go to Heaven.

Right now the anamatic can be seen here on YouTube, though it could be taken down soon.

Trivia

 * The title may be a reference to Shakespeare's "The Beast with Two Backs". On "Spanish Fry", the sex shop in which Fry, Bender and Leela enter is called "The Beast with Two Bucks", again, this might also be a reference.
 * A sneak peek was included in a two disc DVD of Bender's Big Score exclusive to Best Buy.

Characters
Characters that can automatically confirmed, and characters that have been confirmed.


 * Bender
 * Hermes Conrad
 * Pr. Farnsworth
 * Philip Fry
 * Kif Kroker
 * Leela
 * Amy
 * Dr. Zoidberg
 * Zapp Brannigan
 * Unnamed characters;
 * David Cross is going to play a planet size tentacle alien (which comes from the riff in time and space created in Bender's Big Score) according to David X. Cohen in a recent interview.