Grownup Swim has confirmed that Rick & Morty will likely be returning for its seventh season later this yr, and co-creator Justin Roiland gained’t be part of it.
Throughout France’s Annecy Worldwide Competition, Cartoon Community president Michael Ouweleen and govt producer Steve Levy briefly touched on the upcoming season. This’ll be the primary season to air following Roiland’s firing within the wake of his domestic abuse allegations, and although the costs have been later dismissed, his position because the titular duo (and varied aspect characters) will nonetheless be recast. To this point, it’s the one Roiland challenge that’s publicly confirmed it’ll be changing the actor—a just lately revealed growth for Squanch Video games’ High on Life made no point out of him, and Hulu reveals Solar Opposites and Koala Man have been mum since they dropped him after these allegations.
Levy acknowledged that the staff is at the moment looking for an appropriate voice actor, saying he “[doesn’t] suppose anybody will bat an eyelid listening to the brand new voices.” Ouweleen backed up that sentiment, evaluating it to how totally different individuals have voiced Bugs Bunny over the many years. “It’s a somewhat distinctive scenario,” he mentioned. “I really like what Jeff Bennett has carried out with [Bugs]. But it surely’s not Mel Blanc! And but we acknowledge the character.”
So far as when we’ll hear the brand new voices for Rick and Morty, that will likely be inside the subsequent few months. When requested about season seven’s air date, Ouweleen answered “it will likely be this yr. We attempt to hold roughly the identical dates yearly.” Although earlier seasons have began as early as April and as late as December, season six begun in early September. If the plan is to maintain to “roughly” the identical air date, then the present could return someday in direction of mid or late September. No matter who finally ends up getting the position, Grownup Swim’s nonetheless dedicated to the bigger franchise, because it has an anime project coming in some unspecified time in the future this yr, and nonetheless has to finish the 70-episode order given again in 2018.
[by way of CinemaBlend]
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