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‘Rick & Morty’ Season 7 Trailer: Teases New Main Voice Actors & ‘Blade’ Parody Episode

Next month will see the return of one of the most popular animated satire series. Adult Swim has released a first-look trailer for the seventh season of “Rick & Morty” as they hope to move from co-creator Justin Roiland voicing the titular characters. This gives fans a chance to first hear the new voice-over actors as they’ve decided to pursue unnamed “soundalikes” rather than a celeb stunt casting like how Hulu picked British actor Dan Stevens (“Legion”) to replace Roiland in “Solar Opposites.”

Also, a noticeable element seen in the footage is that they’re circling back to previous teases of the duo becoming vampire hunters in some sort of parody episode of the 1998 film “Blade.” The film had been linked to a sword with built-in A.I. that had studied “Blade” to beat anyone in combat and another episode had teased them looking like badasses killing vampires in an alternate reality.

We’ve seen the show take on superheroes multiple times with their lampooning of “The Avengers” with “The Vindicators” along with a Captain Planet-type character, Planetina, who ended up having a tension-filled romantic relationship with Morty. It’ll be interesting to see if the “Blade” stuff is a full episode or simply a visual nod. Not to mention various writers from the show have made the jump to Marvel Studios working on high-profile MCU projects such as “Loki,” “She-Hulk,” “Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania,” “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness,” “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty,” and “Avengers: Secret Wars.”

Here is the official logline for the upcoming seventh season:

“’Rick & Morty’ are back and sounding more like themselves than ever! It’s season seven, and the possibilities are endless: what’s up with Jerry? EVIL Summer?! And will they ever go back to the high school?! Maybe not! But let’s find out! There’s probably less piss than last season. Rick and Morty, 100 years! Or at least until season 10!”

Folks involved with writing/producing the show have previously indicated that on the creative side, they won’t see much impact with the co-creator’s exit suggesting Roiland really hadn’t been contributing that much to recent seasons. This shouldn’t be that shocking given the growing group of writers working on the show (many leaving for Marvel Studios) has been the main creative force since Adult Swim made a deal to bankroll episodes until Season 10.

“Rick & Morty” will officially return to the airwaves as it premieres October 15 on Adult Swim and you can watch the aforementioned new trailer below.

SOURCE: ADULT SWIM

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Mature Animated Series ‘The Venture Bros.’ Cancelled By Cartoon Network?

This isn’t exactly official, but someone from The Venture Bros. family has seemingly revealed on Twitter that the brilliant mature animated series may have been cancelled by Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. 

UPDATE: Show creator Jackson Publick has now made the cancellation official after making the following statement on Twitter. The show has now ended after 17 years.

Author Ken Plume quote tweeted a question about shows that were cancelled too soon and he stated “The Venture Bros.”, an official statement about the show ending hasn’t been made by the network at this point. 

When pushed to explain the tweet he responded with “I have no further comment”. 

Ken is the author of Go Team Venture!: The Art & Making of The Venture Bros. and seemingly has a relationship with the show’s creators. While this is only a rumor, Adult Swim hasn’t officially talked about moving forward with a Season 8 and the last episodes aired back in 2018. 

The comedic animated series has had a pretty large cult following after seven seasons that aired between 2004-2018 and is one of the longest-running shows on Adult Swim. I’m a huge fan of the show as it does some amazing parodies of classic Marvel Comics characters putting their own spin on them and other excellent pop culture references.

Venture Bros. has some of the best and elaborate design work of any cartoon series it would be a shame that if ends. I think if Cartoon Network has indeed decided against a Season 8 it might be a good idea for HBO Max to pick it up after the raunchy Harley Quinn series moved to the service from it’s original home at DC Universe. HBO Max taking over some stuff from Adult Swim wouldn’t be hard to imagine as it would build-up their animation portfolio.

The Venture Bros. chronicles the lives and adventures of the Venture family: well-meaning but incompetent teenagers Hank and Dean Venture; their loving but emotionally insecure, unethical, and underachieving super-scientist father Dr. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture; the family’s bodyguard, secret agent Brock Samson, or his temporary replacement, the reformed villain and pederast Sergeant Hatred; and the family’s self-proclaimed archnemesis, The Monarch, a butterfly-themed supervillain. Initially conceived as a satire of boy adventurer and Space Age fiction prevalent in the early 1960s, it is considered to be an action/adventure series with comedy-drama elements.

SOURCE: KEN PLUME