The film is clearly fake, although that’s not necessarily the fault of its creator. It has been viewed over 1.3 million times on YouTube, with most comments either wishing the film was real or praising the hypothetical cast.

However, it was now posted on Instagram and Facebook and people quickly believed that it was actually happening.

“No way two of my favorite characters, Adam Sandler and the damn Simpsons? Tell me this is real,” wrote one user. “This is going to be a good, real Simpsons with Adam Sandler and his crew. This is going to be hilarious,” commented another.

“This is the first time in YEARS that I’ve been excited about a movie,” wrote a third. “It must be real if Adam Sandler announces it properly. If so, I’m definitely in,” added a fourth.

You don’t need an electrified deception machine to fool people – all you need is AI. D’oh!

Will there be another Simpsons movie?

Matt Groening has said he has “no doubt” that there will be a second Simpsons movie, There is currently no active work on a sequel.

Producer James L. Brooks said in 2014 that the team “was asked to develop it, but we didn’t. We do a lot of other stuff.”

Al Jean later revealed that Season 26’s “The Man Who Came to Be Dinner,” in which the family is transported to Kang and Kodos’ planet, was being considered as a plot for a feature film.

Three years later, David Silverman told Entertainment Weekly: “I would love for there to be another movie. But we’re a long way from that. We’re talking about this and that.”

“We’re thinking about it, but nothing’s happening right now… it’s still disheartening because it really took away our courage to do the movie and the show at the same time.”

In 2019, Groening told Comic-Con attendees: “No doubt there will be another Simpsons movie one day. I think Disney wants something for its money.”

However, he warned: “This is a true answer. The first Simpsons movie almost killed us.”

“We didn’t have a B-team waiting to make The Simpsons Movie, so the same people who wrote, animated, voiced and scored The Simpsons TV show made the movie. That was in 2007. We almost recovered, almost.”

Talks about the sequel stalled during the pandemic, and little has been said about it since. Earlier this year, Jean expressed hope that “the animation business will fully return to what it was… and then, I think, when that happens, it would make sense to do The Simpsons in theaters.”

In the meantime, read more about how The Simpsons seems to predict everything, the five best episodes of Treehouse of Horror, and other new movies to watch this month.