Again in January 2023, Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland was fired from the Grownup Swim present shortly after he made headlines for going through home violence expenses (that court docket case was dismissed by March). As a result of Roiland additionally voiced the 2 title characters, amongst many others, a search started to search out his substitute for the forthcoming Season 7 and past. Now Steve Levy, one among Rick & Morty’s govt producers, has shared an replace on how recasting goes.
Levy was among the many Rick & Morty crew members on the present’s panel for San Diego Comedian-Con, and with regards to who might be taking on because the adventuring mad scientist and his neurotic grandson, he had this to say to the viewers (through THR):
We’re closing in on the top of our technique of the recast… It’s gonna be nice. I’m totally impressed with all the things that’s occurring, together with all of the work on season seven.
Steve Levy’s feedback come a number of weeks after it was introduced that Hulu’s Photo voltaic Opposites employed Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens to take over as Justin Roiland’s character, Korvo. Nonetheless, whereas that present is intentionally making Stevens’ Korvo sound totally different, Levy later knowledgeable a fan on the SDCC panel that the brand new actors who’re employed to play Rick and Morty might be “soundalikes,” including, “The characters are the identical characters — no change.” He expressed the same sentiment final month, noting that he doesn’t assume “anybody will bat an eyelid listening to the brand new voices” after saying that “the writing high quality has by no means been higher” for Rick & Morty Season 7.
That was the extent at which Levy was prepared to speak about this topic, but when the recasting is sort of completed, then it shouldn’t be an excessive amount of longer till we be taught who might be succeeding Roiland in these roles. Nonetheless, even as soon as that info comes, we nonetheless do not know when Rick & Morty Season 7 will premiere. That stated, due to the present nabbing a 70-episode order again in 2018, it’ll be sticking round till no less than Season 10. Chris Parnell, Sarah Chalke and Spencer Grammer will proceed respectively voicing Jerry, Beth and Summer time for the foreseeable future, and Dan Harmon, who created Rick & Morty with Roiland, is now serving as sole showrunner.
Assuming Rick & Morty Season 7 does drop someday later this yr, you’ll be able to rely on us including it to the 2023 TV schedule as soon as the premiere date is introduced. Within the meantime, you’ll be able to stream the present’s first six seasons with both a Hulu subscription or a Max subscription.
