Rick and Morty coming to big screen with feature film in development

Rick and Morty is coming to the big screen with a feature film in development.

The iconic Adult Swim animated series, which launched in 2013 and will return with a ninth season on Sunday (24.05.26), is already renewed through season 12, and now a movie adventure in in the works.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jacob Hair - who has directed episodes of the cartoon since 2019 - is in talks to helm the film.

It's said the project is still in early development, and no plot details have been shared publicly yet.

The show follows a genius and alcoholic mad scientist and inventor, Rick Morty, and his anxious grandson Morty Smith.

Together, the duo split time between their adventures across the multiverse with their family life in suburbia.

Rick and Morty was co-created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, with the latter voicing both roles for a decade.

In 2023, he stepped down from the series following felony domestic abuse charges which were later dismissed.

Since his departure, Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden have voiced Rick and Morty respectively.

Back in 2023, Harmon confirmed talks with Warner Bros. bosses about a potential Rick and Morty feature film, and during those discussions "it felt like maybe it was time to get the ball rolling".

He told The Hollywood Reporter at the time: “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 bada** episode of Rick and Morty.”

Harmon explained that he wanted to give the animators a chance to "go nuts", focusing on a "less is more" approach with the story to allow the crew to have "fancier" animation and "crazy sequences".

He also noted that his ideal scenario was working on a movie while the show is still on air.

He said: "Practically speaking, Harmon would prefer to work on the Rick and Morty film while the show is still ongoing.

“It’s best that way, because I don’t think it should be this canonical thing that relies on the series to do things and changes everything after that.

"I think it should actually be the equivalent of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where the idea was, ‘Hey, Indiana Jones already exists as a series in George Lucas’ imagination, so Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is simply his greatest adventure yet.' ”