Steve Levy, an govt producer on the seventh season of Grownup Swim’s animated comedy sequence “Rick and Morty,” says the animated sitcom will likely be improved within the wake of Justin Roiland’s dismissal from the present.
The sequence debuted in 2013 and has offers in place that can take it by a tenth season. The sixth season aired late final yr and the seventh season hasn’t set an air date as but.
Roiland served because the voice for each titular characters together with co-creating the sequence with Dan Harmon. Grownup Swim terminated its affiliation with Roiland following controversies earlier this yr.
This led to the seventh season present process main manufacturing adjustments. Talking with The Los Angeles Instances, Levy says the crew opted to stay collectively and work to enhance the sequence:
“We had a rug pulled from beneath us. The one individuals we may lean on had been one another. It will have been very straightforward to only say, ‘I’m finished and I don’t wish to do something with this present anymore.’
However our crew stated, ‘No, we’re not going to let one individual drag down all of our onerous work.’ This present is created by this staff — this household of extremely hardworking individuals, and we’re going to push by and present the world that we aren’t going to overlook a beat.
The work that we’re doing throughout the board has solely gotten higher. When the brand new season comes out, we’ll deal with how superb all of it turned out. We hope the followers will notice that this is similar outdated present, perhaps even higher!”
Levy beforehand revealed final month that the roles of Rick and Morty can be recast with ‘soundalikes’ doing the voices.