Adventure Time Spin-off Came From Scrapped Ideas For Final Season
Producer says new Adventure Time spinoff series Adventure Time: Distant Lands is based on scrapped ideas from the original show’s final season.
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The new Adventure Time spinoff series Adventure Time: Distant Lands was based on scrapped ideas from the original show’s final season, according to executive producer Adam Muto. The new series, which consists of four hour-long specials, is currently airing on HBO Max. The first episode, entitled “BMO,” premiered on June 25.
Distant Lands was announced in October, when it was revealed that each of the four new specials would focus on a different character or group of characters from the original show, fleshing out backstories and offering insight into what happened after the final episode. Much of the original voice cast returned for the spinoff, including Olivia Olson, Hynden Walch, and Niki Yang.
In a Q&A panel for San Diego Comic-Con@Home with voice actors Olson, Yang, and Gloria Curda, Muto discusses how the original idea for Distant Lands came from miniseries-style work that was part of the original Adventure Time. Some of the specific story ideas for the specials also came from proposed episodes for the latter half of the original show’s last season, including pitches for fan-favorite characters BMO, Marceline, and Princess Bubblegum, according to Muto.
“It’s actually kind of an older idea, because towards the end of the show, we’d gotten our last season ordered, and we had had some success doing miniseries with the characters, so we pitched a few more miniseries ideas to kind of fill out the back-half of a longer season, and one of those was BMO, one of those was Marcelline and Bubblegum. So, it kind of just grew naturally out of where we had already been with the show.”
HBO and Cartoon Network also premiered promotional art at the end of the panel for the second Distant Lands special, entitled “Obsidian,” which follows Marceline and Princess Bubblegum. The special is set to air soon on HBO Max, followed later by the last two episodes, titled “Wizard City” and “Together Again.” While hesitant to say too much about the unreleased specials, Muto did confirm that the last two would focus on “very familiar characters,” and aspects of the show that were “less explored” in the original series.
Adventure Time was a popular and critical hit during its almost nine-year run, receiving praise for balancing, wacky, fantastical world-building and kid-friendly plotlines with more emotionally intense subject matter. Millions of people tuned in to watch new episodes and the series received several prestigious industry accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards and three Annie Awards.
The new specials give fans a chance to fill in some blanks with the show’s universe and various character arcs, including the romance plotline between Princess Bubblegum and Marceline that was confirmed as canon at the end of the original series. This storyline will be continued in the upcoming “Obsidian,” while viewers wait and speculate on the details for the last two specials.
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