'FUTURAMA'

Fox is casting immediate possible voice replacements for Futurama, a half-hour animated comedy series. Matt Groening & David X. Cohen, creators; Scott Muller, casting dir. Production begins Aug. 2009 in L.A.

Seeking—
 
Philip J. Fry (Fry): a 20th century slacker, works as a pizza delivery boy, is cryogenically frozen Dec. 21, 1999 and wakes up 1,000 years in the future in the city of New New York, tracks down his great (x30) nephew Professor Hubert Farnsworth through a series of events, lands a job at the Professor's Planet Express delivery company as a delivery boy, bunks with Planet Express' beer-swilling robot Bender, is constantly trying to win the heart of Leela, the company's ship captain, series regular;
 
Turanga Leela (Leela): a sexy Cyclops, the captain of the Planet Express delivery ship, in charge of every company mission, having her hands full keeping Fry and Bender in line, her early years were spent in an orphanage where she was a bit of an outcast for having one eye, took up kickboxing and other similar sports to make up for the lack of friends, still has problems with men and often gets jealous of Amy's (her co-worker) popularity among the opposite sex, has a soft spot for Fry but is unsure of anything further than that due to Fry's clumsy advances, series regular;
 
Bender Bending Rodriguez (Bender): a cigar-smoking, booze-guzzling, kleptomaniac robot, had a successful career in bending girders but tried to kill himself when he found out the girders were being used for suicide booths, was saved by Fry and later took a job at Planet Express, Bender needs the chemical energy from alcohol to be able to function properly, excessive drinking is mandatory or he will become sober and unable to control his body, magnets stuck to his head make him sing like a folk singer, series regular;
 
Professor Hubert Farnsworth (Professor): the owner of the Planet Express delivery company, which he uses to fund his strange scientific experiments, also lectures at Mars University on the mathematics of quantum neutrino fields (he made up the name so no one would dare take the course), technically 160 years old but to avoid being picked up by the sunset squad and taken to the near death star he says he is only 150, series regular;
 
Dr. John Zoidberg: a lobster-like alien, left his home planet of Decapod 10 to become a rich doctor but instead became the Planet Express staff doctor (which doesn't pay so well), is usually shunned by the rest of the Planet Express crew, always in search of his next meal, his skill as a surgeon and basic knowledge of human anatomy are often called into question, secretly desires to become a stand-up comedian, series regular.
 
Also seeking recurring roles—
 
Mom: the very old, very rich, and very ruthless founder of Mom's Friendly Robot Company, has three sons (Walt, Larry, and Igner) who work for the company and help Mom do her dirty work, Farnsworth worked for Mom's Friendly Robot Company many years ago and they had a fling, which ended when Mom kept turning Farnsworth's cute inventions into mad killing machines;
 
Zapp Brannigan: a 25-star General of the Democratic Order of Planets, has been responsible for several successful wars including a triumph over the pacifists of the Ghandi Nebula, is always accompanied on mission by his hapless assistant Kif Kroker, behind all his bravado he is a wimp who is not very intelligent, once slept with Leela, a fact that he constantly reminds her of;
 
Kif Kroker: a hard-working and long-suffering alien lieutenant of the DOOP who does all the hard work and takes the rap for problems usually caused by Zapp Brannigan (his superior officer), Zapp considers Kif to be his most loyal friend, but Kif in fact views Zapp as an imbecile, smitten with his current girlfriend Amy, has no bones and is supported by a system of inflated bladders.

Send audio samples ASAP to
 
15821 Ventura Blvd.,
Encino, CA 91436,
 
Attn: Scott Muller or email to futurama@scottmullercasting.com  regular mail preferred.
 
Voice auditions may be sent as MP3/links online or MP3s on CD. Email attachments cannot exceed 5MB. Pay
 
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