Adult Swim Con’s Rick and Morty panel on Twitch (titled “How Do They Do It: Rick and Morty”) — featuring co-creator Dan Harmon and cast members Sarah Chalke, Chris Parnell, and Spencer Grammer — gave fans a cool sneak peek from Season 5 in the form of an awesome animatic.
The few minutes of footage shown hits the floor running, dropping us into a storm of interdimensional chaos and calamity as Morty carries a mortally injured Rick in an attempt to reach their ship and escape back to Earth. Along the way they see a reality where they’re both “Blade” versions of themselves. “That f***in’ tight,” Rick remarks.
The footage ends with Rick and Morty inadvertently angering Rick’s pretentious seafaring nemesis, Mr. Nimbus: an arch-enemy Rick apparently never told Morty about because – well – he’s kind of embarrassed by him. Check it out!
“f**k death, I wanna live!”
Morty decides he has something to live for in this animatic sneak peek at Rick and Morty Season 5, straight out of Comic-Con@home. #IGNComicCon pic.twitter.com/WsgYWlcsYR
— IGN (@IGN) July 25, 2020
As for series updates, Harmon remarked that, despite the pandemic, they were in the midst of both “finalizing the [Season 5] finale” and “almost done writing” Season 6. Even though quarantine Zoom meetings have meant the writers have had to curb their looser, improvisational spitballing methods of story development, Harmon said the “material coming out of it is just as good if not better” than previous seasons.
A Season 5 premiere date wasn’t revealed, though Harmon did mention Season 5 would not feature the unnamed cat voiced by Matthew Broderick, The Vindicators, the Cronenbergs, or Morty’s Mind Blowers.
Harmon also mentioned that “there are some Clone Beth fireworks” coming, but not until Season 6.
For more on the series, here’s our look at how Season 4’s big Beth twist could impact the story going forward as well as our full review of Rick and Morty: Season 4.
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Source: IGN.com Rick and Morty Season 5 Sneak Peek: Meet Rick's Nemesis, Mr. Nimbus