Adult Swim Cuts Ties With Justin Roiland Following Domestic Abuse Charges - Hollywood Reporter

Adult Swim has chopped ties with Justin Roiland successful the aftermath of the quality that the Rick and Morty co-creator was charged with felony home maltreatment successful Orange County.

“Adult Swim has ended its relation with Justin Roiland,” Adult Swim/Cartoon Network/Boomerang svp communications Mairie Moore said successful a connection connected Tuesday.

Adult Swim distributes Rick and Morty, the deed big animation drama that Roiland co-created and enforcement produced, and for which helium voiced some the titular Rick and Morty. As The Hollywood Reporter reported connected Jan. 17, Adult Swim isn’t adjacent halfway done a monolithic 70-episode bid for the show, 1 of the brand’s astir fashionable titles, commissioned by the transmission successful 2018.

Sources accidental Rick and Morty is acceptable to continue, with Roiland’s dependable roles to beryllium re-cast. Though Roiland volition ever beryllium credited arsenic co-creator, chap co-creator Dan Harmon volition present beryllium the lone showrunner. The amusement is locked successful done play 10.

Roiland inactive has respective projects ongoing with Hulu, including arsenic the co-creator of the streamer’s Solar Opposites, connected which helium voices a main quality (the amusement was renewed for a 5th play successful October). On the platform’s Koala Man, which premiered Jan. 9, Roiland does dependable enactment and besides is an enforcement producer. Roiland besides inactive has an wide woody with 20th Television Animation, which produces Solar Opposites and Koala Man. The Hollywood Reporter has reached retired to Hulu and 20th Television Animation for comment.

On Jan. 12, NBC News was the archetypal to interruption the quality that Roiland was charged with 1 number of home artillery with corporal wounded and 1 number of mendacious imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud oregon deceit in Orange County based connected an alleged 2020 incidental that twelvemonth with an unnamed Jane Doe that Roiland was dating. Roiland has pled not guilty, and successful 2020 was released connected a $50,000 bond. Several pre-trial hearings person already occurred, and Roiland is owed to instrumentality to tribunal connected April 27.

In a connection earlier this month, Roiland’s lawyer T. Edward Welbourn said the media sum of the lawsuit has been “inaccurate.” Welbourn added, “To beryllium clear, not lone is Justin guiltless but we besides person each anticipation that this substance is connected people to beryllium dismissed erstwhile the territory attorney’s bureau has completed its methodical reappraisal of the evidence.”

Lesley Goldberg contributed reporting.