Adult Swim's demented sci-fi comedy animated series, Rick and Morty, is preparing to air its seventh season, but fans continue to campaign for the misanthropic scientist and his beleaguered grandson to bring their adventures to the big screen.
As it turns out, co-creator Dan Harmon is very interested in developing a movie, and he's not the only one!
While chatting to THR, Harmon revealed that Justice League and Rebel Moon director Zack Snyder actually asked for a meeting to discuss the possibility of a Rick and Morty feature.
“Not him saying, ‘I get to do it,’ or anything like that. He was totally a super fan and was just like, ‘Is there any way I can help get that movie started by using my Snyder-ness?’” recalls Harmon, who jokes: “So, the Rick and Morty movie is coming as soon as Zack Snyder gets back from his vacation, because I want to start with a Snyder cut of that movie and then I want to do the director’s cut of a Snyder cut release, so we can just have a six-hour Rick and Morty movie and three hours of it is in black and white.”
Hey, we'd watch it!
Harmon does have a genuine desire to develop a Rick and Morty movie, and has since met with other Warner Bros. execs with an eye to making it happen.
“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,” Harmon explains. “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.”
We have no doubt that a movie will eventually happen, as the show's popularity doesn't seem to have waned very much since those early seasons, even after the departure of disgraced co-creator Justin Roiland, who provided the voices for Rick and Morty as well as a number of supporting characters.
"Rick and Morty are back and sounding more like themselves than ever!" reads the synopsis for the show's return. "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!"
Rick and Morty season 7 premieres on Adult Swim on October 15.