Credited for helming 26 episodes of the massively successful Adult Swim mature sci-fi adventure comedy series “Rick and Morty,” director Jacob Hair has been hired by Warner Bros. to help bring a feature film to theaters. The show, being sort of a satirical mash-up of “Back to the Future” and “Doctor Who,” focuses on a multiverse-traversing mad scientist, who goes on wild, mostly off-world adventures with his grandson.
It was co-created by Dan Harmon (“Community,” “Doctor Strange”) and Justin Roiland (who once played the titular characters before being pushed out in 2023 for inappropriate behavior, and those roles were quickly recast with new voice actors), first aired back in 2013. Since then, it has become one of the biggest animated entities at Warner Bros. Discovery. That was highlighted recently as veteran actor Keith David‘s President Curtis is getting his own spinoff show coming sometime this year alongside Season 9 of the mainline series.
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This news isn’t entirely shocking, as other popular animated programs like “The Simpsons,” “South Park,” and “Bob’s Burgers” have been given the feature film treatment in the past. The former is getting a second installment arriving on September 3, 2027, after the original flick from nearly twenty years ago earned 20th Century Fox an impressive $536.4 million at the global box office.
The Hollywood Reporter and others had confirmed Hair’s involvement with the WB film iteration after The InSneider first revealed and reported on the veteran series director doing the pic.
In 2023, Harmon mused to THR about his optimism that the show would end up getting a movie for the right reasons, “My philosophy would be to just take a ‘Rick and Morty’ adventure, and spend a bunch of extra money on it and make it 90 minutes long. Not to try to earn its feature status by virtue of canonical dramatic tone shifts or anything like that, but rather to just make it a super badass episode of ‘Rick and Morty.'”
Fans won’t have to wait too much longer for the show’s return, as that aforementioned Season 9 of “Rick and Morty” is set to debut on Sunday, May 24. Because of a deal made with Harmon and his creative team, there are multiple seasons still on the horizon beyond this new movie announcement. Check out a new trailer for the next batch of episodes below.
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