Rick And Morty has easily become the biggest Adult Swim original series, preparing to return for its sixth season in a few days. With the creators behind the Smith Family’s adventures stating recently that the series might continue forever, fans are preparing for the return of the Cartoon Network juggernaut. Now, in a recent interview with a producer on the series, new details have emerged when it comes to the episode that is being touted as the series’ version of Die Hard.
Rick And Morty has had something of a “Die Hard episode” in its past, with the introduction of “Pickle Rick” seeing the mad scientist transforming himself into a pickle and attempting to escape from a building that is crawling with terrorists.
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Speaking with the outlet Inverse, the producer for the sixth season of the Adult Swim juggernaut went into detail about the approach to this upcoming episode and how co-creator Dan Harmon helped spearhead the story:
“A lot of us are in the same age range, so Die Hard was really in the ether. Even Dan Harmon would tell you that Die Hard wasn’t necessarily up on a board or anything. Ironically, we ended up tackling a really complex story for the A-plot of that episode. Harmon was just like, “What’s left over?” We’ve got a sort of hostage thing. “Just give me a Die Hard!”
The producer of the sixth season of Rick And Morty also added that the episode needed to be “simple” in order to be as effective and fun as possible:
“Yeah, but what’s our spin on it? “Keep it simple,” he said. “Give me a Die Hard! Just let me know when we need to take breaks from the A-story. So it started from the simplest place. As it evolved, we started playing around and decided that the main character — Summer — didn’t know what it meant to be in a Die Hard. The main focus had really been nurturing that A-story for a while.”
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