‘Futurama’ season 12 adds Danny Trejo and Cara Delevingne as guest stars

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 in upcoming episodes of “Futurama,” the show’s producers announced Saturday .

“Futurama” producers Matt Groening, David , 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 slate of episodes with Season 12 on Hulu this Monday.

“Futurama” returned to TV last fall, the second time the show was revived. “Sometimes we get canceled during the panel,” Cohen joked.

The ten new episodes promise the next phase of Fry and Leela’s romance, as well as “birthday party games to the death, the secrets of Bender’s ancestral robot village, AI friends (and enemies), impossibly cute beanbags, and the real 5 million-year-old story behind the mind-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. Kenny plays a “gambling alien who forces our crew to play kiddie games… to the death!” Ortiz will play Marquita, “champion of the robot matadors, Bender’s teacher in the noble art of insect fighting… and the love of Bender’s life.”

And Delevingne is herself “with some additional new parts. A force in the world of future fashion.” Gunn himself, reporting from Milan Fashion Week 3024. Nye himself is hosting the 3024 Inventors Awards. Maclachlan himself is “enjoying a cup of the best Joe in the universe.” Burton plays “an unlicensed hologram of LeVar Burton.” And deGrasse Tyson himself is “solving the greatest mystery of all time… with science!”

The images: The team knew they only had a limited amount of time and wanted to do something different, so instead of just showing a trailer, the stars and producers held a table read of an entire episode. The team read “Quid’s Game,” written by Cody Ziglar, which aired as Episode 2 of this season. The parody of ‘Squid Game’ follows a sadistic group of aliens who force the characters through life-or-death games.

But after Act 1, Cohen jokingly ignored Groening and Katz to show Act 2 as a clip. However, the final act is left up to the fans who actually watch the episode.

What we learned: There may be another crossover with “The Simpsons,” Groening said. “Yes, that’s a brilliant idea!” What about Groening’s other series, “Disenchantment”? As a Netflix show, that could be difficult to coordinate with Disney’s Hulu. But as Cohen joked, “Oh, Disney will buy them in a few months anyway!”

Hulu’s revival of the series marks the second time the show has been brought back since its original launch in 1999. After its first four seasons on Fox, reruns of the show found new life as part of the Adult Swim lineup on Cartoon Network and on DVD. Four direct-to-video films were subsequently produced, which were later re-edited into a fifth season that aired on Comedy Central beginning in 2008. Comedy Central would air two more seasons between 2010 and 2013, consisting of 26 episodes each. Hulu had optioned the show for 20 episodes in February 2022 and renewed it for two more seasons last November.