The run-up to Superman simply retains getting higher as director and DC boss James Gunn has appeared in the newest episode of Rick and Morty alongside Man of Metal helmer Zack Snyder.
The duo appeared in Rick and Morty season 8, episode 7, which aired Sunday, July 6, the place they performed variations of themselves. The episode, titled ‘Ricker Than Fiction,’ confirmed the 2 getting lunch on the Warner Bros lot cafeteria, the place Snyder makes a sly remark about Gunn’s upcoming Superman film. The clip has since made its method on-line, posted on Twitter. Watch it beneath.
Regardless of the episode making enjoyable of each of the administrators, Rick and Morty govt producer Scott Marder advised Selection that the 2 “have been good sports activities.” Plainly they have been more than pleased to play over-the-top variations of themselves.
“Each of these guys kind of implied that that is the present they watch once they have downtime. So that they have been thrilled to get to be part of the world, and there was no pushback or bristling,” stated Marder. “If something, they laughed at something we threw at them. There have been most likely, frankly, much more digs and extra foolish issues we may have used. All they did was snigger it off.”
One of the best a part of the cameo is watching the 2 bicker about their very totally different takes on Superman. In a single second, Man of Metal director Snyder says to Gunn, “Simply noticed your new minimize of Superman. Phrase of recommendation, he’s the Man of Metal, not the Man of Dialog,” including, “do extra photographs of him punching!” To which Gunn retaliates, however later apologizes, saying, “I should not be lashing out at you, your biceps are the dimensions of my head.”
Other than the Snyder cameo, Gunn really performs a central position within the episode, which follows Rick and his grandson Morty as they head to Warner Bros studio to complain about Gunn ruining their favourite film franchise, Most Velocitree. Nevertheless, the 2 later take issues into their very own arms and use Rick’s ‘Film-lizer’ to rewrite the franchise themselves.
Let’s simply hope Rick does not have to make use of his ‘Film-lizer’ when Gunn’s Superman flies into theatres on July 11.
Rick and Morty is on the market to look at on Grownup Swim within the US and E4 within the UK, with new episodes dropping weekly – see our Rick and Morty season 8 launch schedule to search out out precisely when. For extra, take a look at our picks of the finest Rick and Morty episodes.
