{"id":354595,"date":"2019-11-18T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T05:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=354595"},"modified":"2019-11-18T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T05:31:41","slug":"rick-and-morty-returns-for-another-season-of-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/354595\/rick-and-morty-returns-for-another-season-of-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick and Morty returns for another season of mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0It\u2019s animated, but it\u2019s definitely not for kids. Fans have been waiting a long time, and now the fourth season of Rick and Morty is here, streaming first on Showmax in SA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Emmy-Award winning half-hour show follows a sociopathic genius scientist, Rick, who drags his inherently timid grandson, Morty, on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe.<\/span><\/p>\n

We sat down with creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon to talk about the fourth season, as well as the buzz around the series as a whole.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Will there be as long a break between seasons four and five?<\/h3>\n

DH:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s safe to say that the gap between seasons three and four will be the longest and last time it takes so long that it\u2019s ridiculous. There are so many things that had to be settled before we even started season four and we\u2019re literally writing season five while finishing season four, forcing ourselves to commit to a schedule. <\/span><\/p>\n

Not to get anyone\u2019s hopes up, but it\u2019s structured into our deal that if we\u2019re going strong, there are options to deliver more episodes at a time. Adult Swim can say, \u201cThese are on time and great. Do you want to do more instead of taking a break?\u201d And we can do more. I\u2019d like to see that day. Just knowing it\u2019s possible makes me eager for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

How did it feel when you made the deal to create 70 more episodes of Rick and Morty?<\/h3>\n

JR:<\/strong> There\u2019s a lot of stories we want to tell, a lot to do, so it\u2019s great. Job security does not come easy in this town.<\/span><\/p>\n

DH:<\/strong> It felt like permission to ask for a lot of money and actual permission to quit all my other jobs. It has been my fantasy for twenty years to just have a regular job.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you think you\u2019ll want to end the show at 70 episodes?<\/h3>\n

JR:<\/strong> It\u2019s way too early to say. On any given day you\u2019ll feel like <\/span>Rick and Morty<\/span><\/i> can go for 20, 30 seasons. We have characters that don\u2019t really age; it\u2019s very <\/span>Simpsons<\/span><\/i>-esque.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

DH:<\/strong> Sure, I\u2019ll end it! But I don\u2019t know that would be on 70 episodes. I would be unequally surprised if you told me that this goes for 20 years. If it still feels right, we\u2019ll do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

How has season four gone in terms of the creative process?<\/h3>\n

DH:<\/strong> Every single season there\u2019s a little bit of anxiety: Now what\u2019s our definition of having fun and being good? Are we going to continue to be difficult on ourselves because that seems to be an ingredient in the quality? It\u2019s our job to relax and be happy because that\u2019s another huge ingredient. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s always going to be there, thinking too much about the audience when you should be thinking about yourself, because that\u2019s how you\u2019ll please the audience. <\/span>I think that happens on every show, but it\u2019s weird when your job is to continue churning out something that you are proud of for its scarcity. Every season you feel like your job is never the same.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

JR:<\/strong> I think every season is a different process. We want every episode to be good. There are times we\u2019re like, \u201cOkay this episode will be the worst of the season,\u201d and we\u2019re still compelled to do everything in our power to fix what is wrong with it. It could be considered one of the reasons the show takes so long. <\/span><\/p>\n

When we get the episodes back in colour, it\u2019s easy to see that if we cut this and add that, it will elevate the episode significantly.. Sometimes we get episodes back and are like, \u201cWe need to roll up our sleeves and figure this out.\u201d This season however has been good..<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How do you approach writing a new episode?<\/h3>\n

JR:<\/strong> Dan does a pass on every script. We have an amazing writer\u2019s room. We break stories together, then Dan and I sit in the edit bay for every thumbnail animatic in colour and we kind of do a pass in there that\u2019s more of a looser version of a pass. In some cases, it\u2019s like, \u201cOh, we could beat this joke\u201d and then we just riff in the room. <\/span><\/p>\n

I think that process allows us to refine, and refine, and refine for better. Some episodes are good to go. \u2018Pickle Rick\u2019 was one that just flew through production and there\u2019s other episodes like \u2018Froopyland\u2019 with Beth and Rick, and that one was one that we were rewriting and editing a bunch of work in colour.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Are there any guest star voices you can reveal for this season?<\/h3>\n

JR:<\/strong> We\u2019ve got Paul Giamatti, who does a voice in a crazy train episode. We have Sam Neill, Kathleen Turner, Matthew Broderick, Liam Cunningham from <\/span>Game of Thrones<\/span><\/i>, and Taika Waititi does a voice. Sam Neill is from the same species as Taika\u2019s character and we wanted a Kiwi flavour for their species.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Did anything come from the offer to turn over an episode to Kanye West?<\/h3>\n

JR:<\/strong> We\u2019re trying to schedule something. It\u2019s not going to be for this batch coming up, but we love the idea of doing something with Kanye. It\u2019s a discussion of what exactly that is, and then sitting down and talking with him. He had to reschedule, then we had to reschedule. We need to sit down and chat about it but it\u2019s a very sincere and legitimate offer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which Rick and Morty reference are you most sick of hearing?<\/h3>\n

JR:<\/strong> It would be the \u201cwubba lubba dub dub\u201d catchphrase. Only because we were making fun of the idea of stupid catchphrases. At first it wasn\u2019t all that and it was funny because it was a dumb catchphrase, and then we subverted it by making it mean something really depressing. <\/span><\/p>\n

The hardcore fans get the irony behind it, but I think some fans maybe don\u2019t? I don\u2019t want to bum anybody out. I don\u2019t want somebody to be like, \u201cI love that!\u201d and then read that Justin hates it. I don\u2019t hate it.<\/span><\/p>\n

DH:<\/strong> It always bums me out when somebody uses a meme of a quote from the show and it\u2019s being used by somebody who isn\u2019t the greatest specimen. I hate it when a line from our show is being used by the meanest person in a conversation online but, it is what it is. It\u2019s a popular show.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s been the most surreal proof of Rick and Morty\u2019s popularity?<\/h3>\n

JR:<\/strong> For me it\u2019s always Comic-Con and how many people show up for the panel. I think the whole Szechuan sauce thing.. Aside from it being a weird bit of a bummer for everybody, it was also an insane thing we never predicted. That a joke in our show would have caused a giant multibillion-dollar corporation to bring back a sauce they used to serve in the late \u201890s.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

DH:<\/strong> On a bittersweet note, it was amazing when Anthony Bourdain tweeted, \u201cRick and Morty is everything.\u201d It\u2019s incredible that the guy, famous for \u201cLet me take you under this bridge to an amazing crab shack that has the best butter,\u201d thought about our show. It\u2019s sad that he\u2019s no longer with us, but that was a huge thing for me.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You rolled out a clip from an episode at San Diego Comic-Con, what was it about?<\/h3>\n

JR:<\/strong> We showed an animatic for the \u2018Space Snakes\u2019 episode, which is a season four episode. And then we also showed a little animation introducing Glootie, a character who is in one episode voiced by Taika Waititi. They made Funko POPs of them that came out like a couple days ago, so people are like, \u201cWho the hell is this character?\u201d And Glootie has \u2018Do not develop my app\u2019 tattooed on his forehead. Rick literally tattooed this on his forehead because he really wants to develop an app so bad. Of course, Jerry gets sucked into it after being explicitly warned by Rick to not develop his app.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

DH:<\/strong> But the number-one rule of app development: don\u2019t follow the rules.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Catch up on Seasons 1-3 and watch Season 4 on Showmax. New episodes drop every Monday express from the US from 18 November 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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