‘Futurama’ Season 12 Adds Danny Trejo, Cara Delevingne, LeVar Burton as Guest Stars
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Danny Trejo, Ana Ortiz, Tom Kenny, Cara Delevingne, Tim Gunn, Bill Nye, Kyle MacLachlan, LeVar Burton and Neil deGrasse Tyson are among the guest stars appearing on the upcoming episodes of “Futurama,” the show’s producers announced Saturday. “Futurama” producers Matt Groening, David X.
Cohen and Claudia Katz were joined by voice acting stars Billy West (Fry, Prof. Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg), John DiMaggio (Bender), Lauren Tom (Amy), Phil LaMarr (Hermes), David Herman (Scruffy) and Maurice LaMarche (Kif) at San Diego Comic-Con‘s Ballroom 20 to share spoilers and more details about the resurrected animated series, which launches its new batch of episodes with Season 12 this Monday on Hulu. “Futurama” returned to TV last fall, the second time the show had been resurrected. “Sometimes we get canceled during the panel,” Cohen joked.
The ten new episodes promise the next stage of Fry and Leela’s romance, as well as “birthday party games to the death, the secrets of Bender’s ancestral robot village, A.I.
friends (and enemies), impossibly cute beanbags, and the true 5 million-year-old story behind the consciousness-altering substance known as coffee.” In the case of this season’s guest stars, Trejo will play Bender’s cousin, Doblando, who leads Bender to their ancestral robot village in Mexico.
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