Rick and Morty Season 8 pushed to 2025, new footage from anime series revealed

A month after the Emmy-winning series Rick and Morty closed its seventh season, the makers have announced that the adult comedy will have a season 8 and is set for a release in 2025. Last year's five-month Writers Guild strike delayed production on the new series, reported The Hollywood Reporter.

Additionally, the anticipated spinoff Rick and Morty: The Anime will premiere later in 2024. Though Adult Swim has yet to give a more exact date for Rick and Morty: The Anime, the network did drop a new first look for the upcoming series.

Rick and Morty vs. Genocider and Summer Meets God (Rick Meets Evil)" are two critically praised anime shorts that were previously directed in the Rick and Morty universe. Takashi Sano (Tower of God) is the director of Rick and Morty: The Anime. The standalone series will have ten episodes in its first season.

Rick and Morty series focuses on Rick and his grandson's cosmic adventures and family quests. In the Season 7 finale of Rick and Morty, Morty emerges from a Fear Hole and confronts his insecurities. He fears Rick will view him as replaceable and overly reliant on him, but he knows he must cut ties. This allows Morty to embark on more solo adventures, as he did in Season 7.

Rick and Morty Season 7 revealed that Rick's friend Birdperson has a rebellious offspring, Birddaughter, who is often thrown into jail. Rick wants to help Birdperson and his teenager heal, as Birdperson and Hugh Jackman helped Rick break Mr. Poopybutthole out of depression.