The Detroit-born screenwriter and producer also worked on the 2007 film version, The Simpsons Movie, but explained, in an interview with the New Zealand Herald, that a follow-up film was low on the list of priorities for the show. Jean said: "If making a second movie right now was a scale from A to Z, we are between A and B. The problem is there is so much work and there is no reason to do it unless it's good."