Justin Roiland Domestic Violence Charges Met With Silence From TV Partners - Hollywood Reporter

After quality broke that Justin Roiland was charged with felony home unit successful Orange County, respective questions stay unanswered astir the destiny of his sprawling animation empire.

As NBC News was the archetypal to report connected Jan. 12, Roiland, the co-creator of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty and Hulu’s Solar Opposites, was charged successful 2020 with 1 number of home artillery with corporal wounded and 1 number of mendacious imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud oregon deceit pursuing an alleged incidental that twelvemonth with an unnamed pistillate that Roiland was dating. After Roiland was released connected a $50,000 enslaved successful 2020, respective pre-trial hearings person occurred successful the case, including 1 connected Thursday. (Roiland has pled not guilty, and successful a statement, Roiland’s lawyer T. Edward Welbourn called the media sum of the charges “inaccurate,” adding, “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.”)

Though Rick and Morty distributor Adult Swim has truthful acold declined to remark connected the news, the amusement isn’t adjacent halfway done a 70-episode order commissioned by the transmission successful 2018. In summation to his relation arsenic a co-creator and enforcement shaper connected the cult deed big animated series, Roiland voices the show’s titular Rick and Morty. The bid is consistently the astir watched connected Adult Swim; its precocious completed sixth play averaged 560,000 viewers for archetypal airings, with important gains via delayed viewing and streaming. The occurrence of Rick and Morty spawned a abbreviated spinoff bid (Vindicators 2, which Roiland enforcement produced) and a comic publication series. In 2022, Adult Swim additionally announced an anime spinoff from manager Takashi Sano.

Beyond Adult Swim, Hulu has made heavy investments successful Roiland productions. As with Rick and Morty, Roiland plays a main quality connected Solar Opposites, the Hulu amusement helium co-created with Mike McMahan astir aliens surviving successful the American suburbs. Three seasons person aired truthful far, and it’s been renewed done a 5th play connected the Disney-run streamer. Roiland besides enforcement produces and does dependable enactment connected Koala Man, a Hulu drama bid that debuted connected Monday. Hulu didn’t respond to aggregate requests for comment.

Disney’s 20th Television Animation produces some Solar Opposites and Koala Man; Roiland besides has an wide woody astatine the studio. 20th Television had nary remark erstwhile reached by THR.

In 2016, Roiland co-founded a video crippled developer called Squanchtendo (“Squanch” referring to the sanction of a satellite connected Rick and Morty) with erstwhile Epic Games enforcement Tanya Watson. Roiland present leads the company, presently called Squanch Games, arsenic CEO, with offices successful some Burbank, California and Raleigh, North Carolina. Its latest title, the first-person shooter High connected Life, was released connected Dec. 13 to awesome sales, enjoying the biggest launch connected Xbox Game Pass successful 2022 and the biggest third-party motorboat connected the level of each time. He besides released an NFT creation postulation successful 2021 and mounted an creation amusement astatine the UTA Artist Space (he’s a lawsuit of the agency) successful December. Squanch Games did not respond to a petition for comment.

Roiland is owed backmost successful an Orange County tribunal April 27 for different pre-trial hearing.