Dan Harmon says he and Zack Snyder had a secret “Rick and Morty” movie meeting

As Rick and Morty prepares to kick off its seventh season of interdimensional adventures, co-creator Dan Harmon is thinking big. He wants to take the animated duo to the big screen.

Part of that process has included meeting with Zack Snyder at the Justice League director's request, Harmon said in a recent Hollywood Reporter interview. "Not him saying, 'I get to do it,' or anything like that," Harmon explained. "He was totally a super fan and was just like, 'Is there any way I can help get that movie started by using my Snyder-ness?'"

Snyder isn't a closet fan — he has publicly declared his love of the show in the past. "So, the Rick and Morty movie is coming as soon as Zack Snyder gets back from his vacation," Harmon quipped, "because I want to start with a Snyder cut of that movie and then I want to do the director's cut of a Snyder cut release, so we can just a six-hour Rick and Morty movie and three hours of it is in black and white."

At the moment, there's no script for a Rick and Morty movie or even an outline, but Harmon told THR that he met with executives at Warner Bros. as well and came away feeling confident, noting that "it felt like maybe it was time to get the ball rolling."

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If it happens, Harmon sees the movie playing out like a really long episode of the show. "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," he said. "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 badass episode of Rick and Morty."

Harmon has plenty of other balls in the air already. There's the Community movie; his new show Krapopolis; Strange Planet, which just finished its first season on Apple TV+; and Rick and Morty itself, which returns for season 7 on Oct. 15 on Adult Swim.

Snyder, meanwhile, has talked about hypothetically making a Rick and Morty movie before. During a 2021 appearance on Film Junkee's Vodka Stream podcast, the director said he didn't think he'd ever make a straight comedy but added, "If I did the Rick and Morty movie, that's probably about the closest I'd get."

He went on to reveal that he suggested directing a live-action scene for the end of a regular Rick and Morty episode. "My suggestion was to shoot, to do, just like, one of the end teasers in live action," Snyder said.

Unlike with Community, it doesn't appear that any "six seasons and a movie"-type catchphrase will be required to get a Rick and Morty movie off the ground.

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