One is a reboot of badly drawn, badly animated, purile juvenilistic
drivel ... the others "adult animation", so likely to be simiarly
stupid garbage.
From ComingSoon.net ...
HBO Max orders adult animated series
Clone High, Velma, & Fired on Mars
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After announcing development of a reboot of the cult favorite
series last July, Phil Lord & Chris Miller's Clone High has
been given a two-series order by HBO Max while the streamer
has also ordered the Mindy Kaling-starring Velma and Pete
Davidson-led Fired on Mars animated projects to series.
"It is a tremendous privilege to build on the 100 year plus
legacy of 'cartoons' at this company," Suzanna Makkos, EVP,
Original Comedy and Adult Animation, HBO Max, said in a
statement. "We can draw a straight line from our hundreds of
childhood hours spent watching Bugs outwit Elmer to the
current slate of adult animated projects we are building
here at HBO Max and we think fans will agree. We are proud
to introduce this distinctive group of series from a wide
range of diverse creators that will form a first stop
destination for animation lovers everywhere."
Originally created by Lord, Miller and Bill Lawrence (Cougar
Town), Clone High followed prominent historical figures who
have been cloned and placed in high school, with the most
notable being Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, Joan of Arc and
John F. Kennedy, amongst others. The reboot will see Erica
Rivinoja, a writer on the original series, serve as
showrunner and co-write the pilot alongside Lord and Miller.
The 2002 series was a co-production between Canadian cable
network Teletoon and MTV and ran on the former in its
entirety between 2002-03 before making its debut on MTV. It
was infamously pulled from the music-based network shortly
after its debut as its portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi received
widespread criticism from India, prompting hundreds to mount
a hunger strike. Given it was receiving low ratings and
generally mixed reviews, MTV pulled the plug, however in the
years since it has gone on to earn critical acclaim and
garner a massive cult following.
Lord and Miller have even frequently referenced the series
throughout their various films over the years, including
multiple jokes in 22 Jump Street being lifted from the show,
Will Forte reprising his voice role as Lincoln in The Lego
Movie and a film poster featuring Lincoln and JFK on display
in Miles Morales' Times Square entitled "Clone College."
Velma will explore the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the
unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery
Inc. gang, offering an original and humorous spin that
unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America's
most beloved mystery solvers. Six-time Emmy nominee Mindy
Kaling will voice the titular role and executive produce
alongside Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein and Sam Register with
Warner Bros. Animation producing.
Created by Nate Sherman and Nick Volkey, Fired on Mars is
being described as an existential workplace comedy set on
the Martian campus of a modern tech company, with the King
of Staten Island star set to voice the central character
and will executive produce alongside Carson Mell (Silicon
Valley) and Dave Sirus.
In addition to the three series ordered, the streaming
platform gave a peek at other animated projects in
development, including Sean Solomon's Hello Paul centered on
a neurotic millennial cat whose intense job and freeloading
mouse roommate stress him out; Obi Arisukwu and Arthur
Harris' Obi following a 30-year-old-man-child chasing his
dream to become an artist while navigating adulthood with
his friends, based on Arisukwu's Instagram comic strip and
produced by Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society, Michael
Schreiber for Studio71 and David Devries; the
Ed Helms-executive-produced Uncanny Valley telling the story
of three awkward domestic helper robots who kill their human
owners and try to assume their identities; and an adaptation
of Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack's Cover, an espionage
thriller and conspiratorial love letter to the comic book
industry, with Benis penning and Mack directing.
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