According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dan Harmon (Community, Krapopolis), creator of the animated series Rick and Morty, states that he has already written the episodes for the 10th season. Rick and Morty just concluded their eighth season and Harmon isn’t stressed about working on future episodes as he used to be.
During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Harmon was asked what his favorite moments of the eighth season. “I’m really bad at keeping track these days because we’re so on schedule that we’re ahead of schedule,” Harmon says. “I was told last night that at Comic-Con, we will be doing a table read of the two Beths episode which was season eight’s sixth episode. My response was very sincerely, ‘Maybe I should punch that script up.’ And executive producer Steve Levy said, ‘It already aired on television.’ I’ve become my own Chevy Chase now.”
As per The Hollywood Reporter, this is a new side to Harmon, who has been very open about his perfectionism and struggles over being willing to stop tinkering with an episode. “Definitely very new, very alien,” Harmon admits about being ahead of schedule. “I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat going, ‘How do I destroy everything? How do I slow it down?’ The answer is, I can’t.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series has already started working on voice lines for the ninth season with showrunner Scott Marder (The Mick, Unsupervised) and the writing team has even started work for the season after that. “There’s episodes of season 10 that I’m already so excited about, and that’s a frustrating thing of being on schedule in animation: ‘Can we fast-forward time so people can get a look at this bad boy?’” jokes Harmon.
Via The Hollywood Reporter, Harmon adds about the show being so far in advance, “I don’t know if that’s sad for the listeners to hear. They’re like, ‘Why are you three years ahead?’ That means that you’re not going to get that amazing Jeffrey Epstein episode. We’re not going to have hot-topic stuff. We stay timeless.”
Below is the interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
