'The Simpsons' big screen debut

Posted Monday, April 3, 2006 at 4:32 PM Central

by John Couture

Those of you who went to see Ice Age: The Meltdown this weekend (and judging by its huge haul of $70 million, I'm betting that's most of you), got an extra surprise when you sat down for the previews. The first image of Homer Simpson on the big screen, in his underwear no less.

The long-running TV show (currently in its 17th season) is finally getting a full-length, big screen treatment. Fox is in the storyboarding phase after struggling for three years to get the script right. The trailer (which is also online now) also revealed that The Simspons Movie will hit theaters on July 27, 2007, which caused Homer to quip, "Uh-oh, we'd better get started."