The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie VI: The Great Regime (also known as SpongeBob SquarePants: The Great Regime) is a 2028 animated feature film based off of the SpongeBob SquarePants television series. After the moderate success of the previous film, Viacom greenlit a new movie following a pitch by Butch Hartman and Bernie Sanders. Joel Schumacher was forced to step down as director due to the inconsistent quality of his previous films; Schumacher settled for a position as executive producer, but was reportedly unhappy with the direction the movie took, due to it's lack of nipples and it's failure to include a cameo by George Clooney. Executives reportedly took issue with the political nature of the film; however, Bernie Sanders threatened to unleash alien specimen Ted Cruz onto the world if