Rick & Morty Change into Batman in New Grownup Swim Bumper

The cartoon duo of Rick & Morty positive do get round. Over the past decade, the multiversal duo have change into extraordinarily in style, thanks partially to popping up in movies, live-action, video video games, and different forms of animation. The subsequent universe they’ve jumped to? None aside from the DC Animated Universe, kind of.

Just lately, Grownup Swim launched a TV bumper that includes Rick and Morty within the type of the intro for Batman: The Animated Series. And it appears to be like…fairly good, truly? From begin to end, it actually commits to the bit as a lot as it will possibly in below a minute. Seeing Rick & Morty characters in a cleaner artwork type undoubtedly makes the present look extra distinct and crowd pleasing, ditto its theme when finished in Danny Elfman type.

The bumper was directed and govt produced by Aron Fromm (who already works for Grownup Swim as an editor on Smiling Associates) and animation studio Open the Portal. In an interview with Animation World Network, Fromm and OTP artistic director David Braun defined they’d met key BTAS author Paul Dini final 12 months at a screening of Fleischer cartoons. When Grownup Swim contracted them for a Rick & Morty promo, the duo went with the traditional present partially as a result of it was “one of many largest influences on our work,” stated Braun. “Many a person has tried and didn’t recapture the magic of the unique collection, and we love a problem.”

Regardless of the way it could appear, the pair careworn this bumper is at the moment only a one-off and never some herald of one other Rick & Morty spinoff. Nonetheless, Fromm admitted he can simply think about an “elaborate and gothic” trailer for a hypothetical collection, which he thinks might final no less than 40 episodes. Stranger issues have occurred, significantly on Batman’s finish, so perhaps don’t rule it out simply but.

You may learn AWN’s full interview with Fromm and Braun, which additionally goes into nailing the bumper’s design and the evolution of animation, here.

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