Adult Swim was pitched an animated show about Rick Moranis spending his retirement as a gatekeeper protecting the world from Hell.
Evidently Rick Moranis has been away from acting for too long: A potential Adult Swim comedy pitch about him was never greenlit, on account of a belief that people younger than Generation X would not remember Moranis’ film career.
A YouTube video posted by user RareBirdGames revealed that he won a 2017 Adult Swim pitch contest at San Diego Comic Con, coming up with the Moranis story while waiting in line. The plot would have focused on an 18 year old boy who “discovers a rare box of cereal from the 1997 hit movie Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves.”
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The cereal box contains an unexpired golden ticket that makes him the winner of a contest to meet Rick Moranis. Flown to the retired comedic actor’s cabin in Northern Alberta, Canada, the boy is initially underwhelmed by what he sees, until one day Moranis unexpectedly saves him from a dangerous hell beast. It’s revealed that Moranis purposefully “sacrificed his acting career to become the gatekeeper between our world and Hell itself,” and the boy, “realizing that his life sucks compared to this shit, decides to dedicate his life to replace Moranis as the gatekeeper.”
As intriguing as that pitch sounds, an Imgur post revealed that it failed to gain traction “due to lack of faith in audiences knowing who Rick Moranis was.” However, the post did include some concept art designs for the show’s character models, including sketches of Moranis, his glasses, the cereal box and a butler Mantis named “the Morantis”. In the concept art, the…
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