James Gunn and Zack Snyder cameo in a new episode of Rick and Morty, with the directing duo trading barbs about Superman, and Gunn framed as the villain of the piece.
Season 8 Episode 7 of of Rick and Morty is titled ‘Ricker Than Fiction,’ and features vocal performances from two of Hollywood’s biggest directors.
The episode sees the title characters unhappy with the latest instalment in the ‘Maximum Velocitree’ franchise, so they have it out with the film’s director James Gunn, who is voiced by James Gunn.
The episode then takes aim at warring comic book fans by having Zack Snyder – voiced by Zack Snyder – mock Gunn’s forthcoming Superman. Here’s how that plays out, including what happened when the filmmakers entered the recording booth.
Rick and Morty ‘Ricker Than Fiction’ explained
Where Heat has De Niro and Pacino meeting in that diner, ‘Ricker Than Fiction’ sees Gunn and Syder having it out in the Warner Bros. commissary.
“Just saw your new cut of Superman,” says a muscle-bound Zack, with a fresh pot of Creatine on his tray. “Word of advice – he’s the Man of Steel, not the Man of Conversation – do more shots of him punching.”
Meanwhile, Rick and Morty are using a machine called the ‘Movie-Lizer’ to fix Maximum Velocitree, but end up in the movie itself, Last Action Hero-style.
The duo end up fixing the movie, in the process cracking the code for how to save film. Gunn then ends up with that code on a hard drive, but Hollywood doesn’t want anything cracked, so the episode ends with the actual Warner Brothers having him shot, and Gunn bleeding out on the ground.
James Gunn and Zack Snyder were “good sports”
Speaking to Variety, Ricky and Morty executive producer Scott Marder said of the cameos: “We were like, if we’re going to do a movie and we’re going skewer Hollywood, we feel like we have to include our bosses. So we started thinking about Warner Bros. Who’d be a good face to be kind of the villain here? James Gunn just seemed like such a good choice.”
They reached out, Gunn instantly said yes, got a green-light from his WB bosses, and even recorded his lines the morning after he wrapped principal photography on Superman.
“They were good sports,” said Marder. “Both of those guys sort of implied that this is the show they watch when they have downtime. So they were thrilled to get to be a part of the world, and there was no pushback or bristling.
“If anything, they laughed at anything we threw at them. There were probably, frankly, even more digs and more silly things we could have used. All they did was laugh it off.”
Dan Harmon wrote the Gunn-Snyder dialogue
Dan Harmon co-created Rick and Morty, and Marder revealed that he wrote the Gunn-Snyder dialogue himself: “When he heard that they were on board and they were coming in, he sort of cracked his knuckles and wanted to make sure the episode lived up to and was worthy of them, having to deliver those lines.”
Snyder is keen to do more, with Marder adding: “I direct all the voices, so I directed both those guys, and Snyder left, and he came back like a fan, saying, ‘I’ll do anything for the show. Throw me a tag. Throw me a thing.’ It was just cool to hear such enthusiasm from him.”
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