It’s been close to a year since Rick & Morty Season 6 premiered on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block, and while we still don’t know when Season 7 will arrive, it’s been common knowledge for a while now that it won’t sound quite the same. In late January, co-creator Justin Roiland was fired from Rick & Morty, thus necessitating that a new actor be selected to voice the title protagonists, among many other characters. However, one of the Rick & Morty producers, as well as the network’s boss, feel this won’t impact the show heavily, as evidenced by the shade they directed at Roiland while talking about its future.
Producer Steve Levy and Cartoon Network president Michael Ouweleen appeared at Annecy International Festival, and they confirmed that the recasting process is still unfolding. Justin Roiland’s vocals “will be replaced” during Season 7’s post-production, but Levy thinks that that having someone else voicing Rick, Morty and the actor’s characters won’t lead to a diminished experience for the show’s viewers. As he put it (via Toonado):
