The release date window for Rick and Morty Season 8 has been revealed, teasing a potential two-year-long wait for the hit Adult Swim series.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Adult Swim is currently targeting a 2025 return date for Rick and Morty Season 8. This comes after over a month since the adult-animated series had concluded its 10-episode seventh season. Should the next installment indeed arrive in 2025, this would be one of the longest waiting periods between the show’s seasons in a long while. For three consecutive years, Rick and Morty fans were treated to new season releases yearly since 2021’s Season 5.

Rick and Morty argue with each other in the Adult Swim series.
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Prior to the Rick and Morty Season 7 finale, series regular Sarah Chalke, who voices the role of Beth Smith, previously gave an update regarding the production status of Rick and Morty Season 8, confirming the cast hasn’t started voice recording yet. "It's written, but we haven't read them yet, we just get them a little bit before," Chalke said. "You know, we get the scripts as we go, and it's always fun to kind of get to see what you're going to be doing. I have such a good time every recording. Whatever Beth or Space Beth is doing, I'm here for it."

The Future of Rick and Morty

In 2018, Adult Swim granted Rick and Morty a 70-episode renewal after three seasons, which guaranteed the show to last up to ten seasons, since each installment consisted of ten episodes. According to showrunner Scott Marder, they have already mapped out the fan-favorite series’ "full-10-season-saga," despite original co-creator Justin Roiland’s controversial dismissal. "I can’t tease a lot," he said. "I can tell you that we’ve already got a couple ideas for Season 10 that are already kind of pinned. There is a full plan for a full 10-season saga. So if people are on board with what we’ve been doing the past couple seasons, we’re intending to give them more of that. But there are certainly arcs and cool things and big surprises in store."

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Besides developing future seasons of the original series, Adult Swim is also currently preparing for the upcoming premiere of its first Rick and Morty spinoff, which reimagines the beloved titular duo into anime characters. Rick and Morty: The Anime is expected to be set in a separate universe, featuring a Japanese voice cast. In addition, co-creator Dan Harmon has also teased the possibility of a Rick and Morty movie, after previously discussing it with Warner Bros.

Rick and Morty Season 7 welcomed two new additions to its main cast: soundalike voice actors Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden, who have taken on the respective roles of Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith. They joined returning voice actors Chalke as Beth Smith, Chris Parnell as Jerry Smith, and Spencer Grammer as Summer Smith. In a previous interview, Cardoni and Belden admitted that it took them a while before they were able to settle into their roles. "I think that it's an ongoing process, it was all summer, it will continue to be as these characters grow," Cardoni shared. "Hopefully, I will too."

Rick and Morty Season 7 is now available on Max.

Source: THR