Rick and Morty‘s Showrunner Offers a Promising Update on the Wait Time Between Future Seasons

New episodes of Rick and Morty are conscionable weeks away, thing the show’s legions of fans person been waiting eagerly for since precocious 2023. While that’s astir mean for Rick and Morty hold times—or adjacent connected the shorter side; who other is inactive haunted by the spread betwixt seasons 3 and four?—enduring 2024 without caller portal weapon antics and Jerry being Jerry was inactive rough.

There were immoderate behind-the-scenes reasons for that—the manufacture strikes of 2023, which people impacted galore Hollywood merchandise dates—but fortunately, things are connected a faster way for the show’s future.

“We’re present done penning play 10,” showrunner and enforcement shaper Scott Marder told io9 astatine a Rick and Morty property day. “So we’ve got a chill presumption of the full beforehand 10. We decidedly person chill things ahead.”

Being astir done penning play 10 is amazing. But what astir play nine, since play 8 is connected the horizon?

“It is astir wholly into color, which is the past stage,” Marder confirmed. “I mean, we’re done each the dense lifting connected it. It’s an fantabulous season. We conscionable started accumulation connected play 10, which is besides an fantabulous season. You should beryllium getting each [new season] a twelvemonth [after the past one].”

That is particularly fantastic quality erstwhile you see Rick and Morty has already been renewed through play 12. Rick and Morty play 8 begins May 25 connected Adult Swim.

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