Fun With Mr. Future (film) Special cartoon; released only in Los Angeles on October 27, 1982, for Academy Award consideration. Mr. Future, an Audio-Animatronics “talking head” gives us a glimpse of what life will be like tomorrow—and what we thought it would be like today. A new animated sequence depicting a typical day in the life of a “future” family is used along with live-action footage taken from previously released films.