Popular cult stop motion animated comedy Robot Chicken is giving birth to a spin-off with a new show, Titan Maximum, created by Robot co-creator Matthew Senreich and writer Tom Root, with co-creator and genre fave Seth Green set to voice the villain of the piece and also executive produce. The show is set a century in the future and homages (and from the sounds of it also pastiches) Japanese manga and anime staples – set on Saturn’s moon Titan and featuring eager young pilots whose spaceships combine into a giant robot, the titular Titan Maximum. As Root comments “In reality, that would end terribly. The last thing you want when giant monsters attack is a bunch of teenagers in charge of defending you. ‘Titan Maximum’ is about what would really happen if a team of idiot kids was in charge of a 6-story-tall robot”. Sounds fun. According to IGN the writing team will also include two prominent comics scribes, Geoff Johns and Zeb Wells. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
(poster for the Robot Chicken Star Wars special)
Fri, May 8, 2009
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