Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon has provided a promising update on the mooted movie spin-off.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the co-creator of the animated sci-fi sitcom recalled Rebel Moon director Zack Snyder summoning him to Warner Bros to discuss the potential film.
"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?'" he said.
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"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," Harmon went on to quip.
Despite an eagerness to get maniacal scientist Rick Sanchez and his mild-mannered grandson up on the big screen, there's no script to speak of just yet.
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Opening up on his philosophy, the screenwriter suggested spending "a bunch of extra money" on crafting a standard 90-minute adventure – "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."
"I think less is more there because then we can let our animators go nuts, and the animation can be fancier and there can be crazy sequences and stuff," he added.
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Snyder, who famously released Zack Snyder's Justice League following a lengthy fan campaign, previously addressed the idea of dipping into the world of Rick and Morty.
"I would do an anime remake or live-action. That would be fun because I love animation, and I watch a ton of anime with my kid who's too young to watch it but we watch anyway," he told YouTuber Tyrone Magnus.
Rick and Morty airs on Adult Swim in the US, and on E4 in the UK.
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