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

New episodes of Rick and Morty are just weeks away, something the show’s legions of fans have been waiting eagerly for since late 2023. While that’s about average for Rick and Morty wait times—or even on the shorter side; who else is still haunted by the gap between seasons three and four?—enduring 2024 without new portal gun antics and Jerry being Jerry was still rough. There were some behind-the-scenes reasons for that—the industry strikes of 2023, which naturally impacted many Hollywood release dates—but fortunately, things are on a faster track for the show’s future. “We’re now through writing season 10,” showrunner and executive producer Scott Marder told io9 at a Rick and Morty press day. “So we’ve got a cool view of the whole front 10. We definitely have cool things ahead.” Being almost through writing season 10 is amazing. But what about season nine, since season eight is on the horizon? “It is almost entirely into color, which is the last stage,” Marder confirmed. “I mean, ... Read full article.