Itโs a sad truth that all good things must eventually come to an end, including the latest season of a certain hit Adult Swim animated series. After one of the stronger batch of episodes in recent history which included everything from forbidden romances with an elemental deityโฆ forbidden romances with a horse semen extractorโฆ giant incest babies in spaceโฆ and a delightful Goodfellas meets Power Rangers instalmentโฆ Rick And Morty season 5 only has its finale left. Thankfully, co-creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon are making it worth our while by making it an hour long affair โ but thereโs a catch with the release date.
While fans have been enjoying an uncharacteristically on-schedule release timeline โ a happy consequence of COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic โ theyโll have to wait until early September before the Rick And Morty season 5 finale will be available to stream. Arriving in two parts, the coming episodes have been dubbed โForgetting Rarick Mortshallโ and โRickmurai Jackโ (obviously referencing break-up comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Samurai Jack). The description for โForgetting Rarick Mortshallโ simply reads โTwo Crows, broh. These guys are mad smart.โ, while โRickmurai Jackโ offers nothing more than โTryinโ something new, broh. Doinโ it big.โ Whatever those sentences mean.
Based on the friction between Rick Sanchez and grandson Morty Smith hinted throughout the entirety of season 5 so far, accumulating with every fresh mistake, in addition to the title of the first part, this finale may very well explore the possibility of what Rick is without Morty and vice versa โ in both a story and existential sense. And the footage provided in the teaser below is only further confirmation. After messing with Rickโs portal gun, Morty challenges his grandpa to find a replacement for him, at which point Rick produces a โWheel of Better Things Than Mortyโ for a spin; featuring options such as half a Paul Giamatti, Sentient Shit, Gene With Donkey Brains, Garbage Goober, Bag of Meat, Kyle 2.0, and more.
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Not to get too ahead of ourselves here, but the hour-long format may very well be a test run for a potential Rick And Morty feature-length movie, which has been previously alluded to by producers.
โI wouldnโt be shocked if there was one that comes down the pipeline someday,โ Scott Marder tells Digital Spy.
โBut I feel like every episode is a movie. Iโd like to see what a movie would be. A movie would feel like the equivalent of a trilogy. We just pack so much in. Itโd have to be pretty epic.โ
Regardless of whether a movie ever becomes reality, staff writer Alex Rubens has already revealed production is so far aheadโฆ the writing process for Rick And Morty season 7 has already begun.
โAm I allowed to say we started writing Rick And Morty season 7? If not, we didnโt and Iโm not,โ Rubens tweets.
Dan Harmon himself has previously alluded to the fact that both season 6 and season 7 was in the works during a panel session at the Adult Swim Festival last November โ which, in conjunction with Rubenโs spill, is confirmation enough.
โI think weโre working on [Rick And Morty] season 7 right now, I canโt even keep track,โ Harmon admitted.
โI wouldnโt know if I were spoiling season 5 or season 6.โ
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โWeโre more on schedule than weโve ever been. [COVID-19] kind of makes you have to focus on the whole process when you donโt have this office environment anymore.โ
โEveryone has to run this bee colony remotely, so the honey just gets made more consistentlyโฆ Itโs working for us.โ
In 2018, Adult Swim commissioned a total of 70 new episodes. After the conclusion of the fifth season, another 50 remains on the docket. But it certainly wonโt be all weโre receiving. Earlier this year, the network announced a Rick And Morty spin-off series is on the way. Centred on the Vindicators โ first introduced via the season 3 episode โVindicators 3: The Return of Wordenderโ โ at this stage, itโs unclear how closely this will tie in with the main series (i.e. how much Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith weโll actually get to see). According to Collider, itโll star Supernova, Vance Maximus, Alan Rails, Crocubot, as well as Noob Noob in a timeline before their season 3 appearance/demise.
The two-part Rick And Morty season 5 finale currently has a release date of Sunday at 11 PM, September 5th over in the US โ meaning itโll land on Netflix here in Australia on the evening of September 6th.
Watch the promo below.
