“Rick and Morty” co-creator Dan Harmon has revealed that at one time, he had a meeting on the Warner Bros. lot with Zack Snyder to discuss whether the “Justice League” director could help get a “Rick and Morty” feature film made.
Harmon tells THR he is keen to bring the franchise to the big screen but there’s “no outline yet, much less a script”. That said, there’s been some progress.
He says that he recently had a meeting with Warner Bros. Pictures executives (not Snyder) and left the room confident that “everyone was on the same page about the ‘right conceit’ for the movie, should it move forward.” He explains:
“My philosophy would be to just take a ‘Rick and Morty’ adventure, and spend a bunch of extra money on it and make it 90 minutes long.
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’… we can let our animators go nuts, and the animation can be fancier and there can be crazy sequences and stuff.”
That’s when the story of an earlier and far less official meeting with Snyder came up. Harmon explains that it was more a case of the director being a fan and offering to help however he could:
“[It wasn’t Snyder] saying, ‘I get to [direct] 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?'”
With Snyder being Snyder, and Harmon being Harmon, the “Community” creator goes on to joke:
“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 also says on a practical level, he would prefer to work on a “Rick and Morty” film while the show is still ongoing as he says: “I don’t think it should be this canonical thing that relies on the series to do things and changes everything after that.”
Harmon’s comments come as the seventh season of the series is set to premiere October 15th on Adult Swim.
