Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
Directed by	Peter Avanzino
Produced by	Lee Supercinski Claudia Katz
Screenplay by	Ken Keeler
Story by	Ken Keeler David X. Cohen (Parts One and Four)
Starring	Billy West Katey Sagal John DiMaggio Tress MacNeille Maurice LaMarche Phil LaMarr Lauren Tom David Herman
Music by	Christopher Tyng
Edited by	Paul D. Calder
Production company	The Curiosity Company Rough Draft Studios
Distributed by	20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date	February 23, 2009 (2009-02-23) (United Kingdom) February 24, 2009 (2009-02-24) (United States)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder is the fourth and final straight-to-DVD Futurama film. The film was written by Ken Keeler, based on a story by Keeler and David X. Cohen, and directed by Peter Avanzino. Guest stars include Phil Hendrie, Penn Jillette (credited with Teller), Snoop Dogg and Seth MacFarlane, who sings the theme song. In the movie, Leela becomes an outlaw when she and a group of ecologically-minded feminists attempt to save an asteroid of primitive life forms and the Violet Dwarf star from being destroyed, while Fry joins a secret society and attempts to stop a mysterious species known as the "Dark Ones" from destroying all life in the universe. The title itself is a reference to the U.S. Air Force Song, the main chorus of which describes reaching "Into the wild blue yonder".

The DVD and Blu-ray were released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on February 23, 2009, while the film itself premiered on February 6, 2009 at New York Comic Con. It made its broadcast premiere on Comedy Central on August 30, 2009. The film and its predecessors together comprise season five of Futurama, with each film being separated into four episodes of the broadcast season. It won the 2009 Annie Award for Best Home Entertainment Production, and 20th Century Fox and Comedy Central cited sales of Into the Wild Green Yonder and the other Futurama direct-to-DVD movies as one reason Comedy Central decided to renew the Futurama television series in 2009.