As Rick and Morty should conclude the eight season with the final on Sunday, the co-creator Dan Harmon is not as stressed to work on the future episodes as he could have been in the past.
During The Hollywood Reporter ‘The video interview with the adult swimming program team from San Diego Comic-Con, Harmon was invited to have favorite moments of the current season.
“I am really bad to follow these days because we are in the calendar that we are ahead of the calendar,” explains Harmon. “I was told last night that in Comic-Con, we will read the table of the episode of the two Beths [which was season eight’s sixth episode]. My answer was very sincerely: “Maybe I should hit this script”. And [executive producer] Steve Levy said: “He has already been broadcast on television”. I have become my own chase chevy now.
It is clearly a new side of Harmon, which has already been quite open with THR About his perfectionism and difficulty being ready to stop tinkering with an episode.
“Certainly very new, very extraterrestrial”, admits Harmon on the calendar. “I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat,” How can I destroy everything? ” How can I slow it down? The answer is that I can’t.
Indeed, the series led by the Showrunner Scott Marder has already started to record the vocal work for the new season, and the writing team even started working for the season after. “There are episodes of season 10 that already fascinate me, and it is a frustrating thing to be in the calendar in animation:” Can we move forward quickly so that people can take a look at this bad boy? “”, Plans Harmon.
He adds that the show was so far in advance: “I don’t know if it’s sad for listeners to hear. They say to themselves, “Why do you have three years in advance? It means you won’t get that incredible [Jeffrey] EPSTEIN episode. We are not going to have hot things. We remain timeless.
One of the viral moments of this season was the cameos of the filmmakers James Gunn and Zack Snyder. “Zack Snyder wants to be a regular,” said Harmon. He jokes: “All his sequences will be dreams. There will always be in a Snyder cup of each episode.”
Part of the call of Rick and Morty For its dedicated fans base is the serialized nature of certain episodes, while viewers discover the multiverse of the show and meet various versions of the titular characters. Some fans noted that season eight seemed to have more emphasis on episodic adventures rather than developing over the overview.
“It’s difficult,” explains Harmon to balance serialization with episodic pleasure. “My game is, I will always insist on the unique modular thing. It is more difficult to succeed and therefore requires more energy. And serialization is a glorious and wonderful thing that automatically occurs at a show that people love. So, it doesn’t really need help.”
He continues: “But we have younger and more intelligent people in staff whose work is to remember what Rick is from what dimension. They make great and strong defenders for fantastic and canonical mythical episodes. And so my work can be like, “ hey, let’s do this Alf‘- Just my definition of a really modular show. “”
