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Dan Stevens Replaces Justin Roiland in Hulu’s ‘Solar Opposites’ (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Gamera8ID@lemmy.world to c/television@lemmy.world

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Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Legion, Gaslit) has been tapped to take over the lead role in the animated series that was originally created by Mike McMahan (Star Trek: Lower Decks) and Dustin Roiland, who was ousted in January amid domestic violence charges.

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[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about Rick and Morty? He’s going to be harder to replace there.

[–] Gamera8ID@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but the writer's room is the real star of R&M and it's been reported that Roiland stopped collaborating there years ago. Hopefully it'll only be disconcerting for a minute or two, but Solar Opposites being first to have a clip out could make it harder for R&M to pull off "<Belch.> I just sound different now! Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!" without looking like a copycat.

[–] downpunxx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

which explains why the last two seasons of rick and morty have been dogshit, and bear no relation in quality to the seasons before them, there was a steep dropoff that I couldn't figure out what happened, then the story broke and it all made sens