Rick & Morty Become Not-So-Caped Crusaders in Batman-Style Bumper

The cartoon duo of Rick & Morty sure bash get around. Over the past decade, the multiversal duo person go highly popular, acknowledgment successful portion to popping up successful films, live-action, video games, and different forms of animation. The adjacent beingness they’ve jumped to? None different than the DC Animated Universe, benignant of.

Recently, Adult Swim released a TV bumper featuring Rick and Morty successful the benignant of the intro for Batman: The Animated Series. And it looks…pretty good, actually? From commencement to finish, it truly commits to the spot arsenic overmuch arsenic it tin successful nether a minute. Seeing Rick & Morty characters successful a cleaner creation benignant decidedly makes the amusement look much chiseled and eye-catching, ditto its taxable erstwhile done successful Danny Elfman style.

The bumper was directed and enforcement produced by Aron Fromm (who already works for Adult Swim arsenic an exertion connected Smiling Friends) and animation workplace Open the Portal. In an interrogation with Animation World Network, Fromm and OTP originative manager David Braun explained they’d met cardinal BTAS writer Paul Dini past twelvemonth astatine a screening of Fleischer cartoons. When Adult Swim contracted them for a Rick & Morty promo, the duo went with the classical amusement successful portion due to the fact that it was “one of the biggest influences connected our work,” said Braun. “Many a antheral has tried and failed to recapture the magic of the archetypal series, and we emotion a challenge.”

Despite however it whitethorn seem, the brace stressed this bumper is presently conscionable a one-off and not immoderate herald of different Rick & Morty spinoff. Still, Fromm admitted helium tin easy ideate an “elaborate and gothic” trailer for a hypothetical series, which helium thinks could past astatine slightest 40 episodes. Stranger things person happened, peculiarly connected Batman’s end, truthful possibly don’t regularisation it retired conscionable yet.

You tin work AWN’s afloat interrogation with Fromm and Braun, which besides goes into nailing the bumper’s plan and the improvement of animation, here.

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