‘Rick and Morty’ cuts ties with Justin Roiland after domestic violence charges

Grownup Swim, which airs the grownup comedy “Rick and Morty,” introduced on Tuesday that it’s going to now not work with collection co-creator Justin Roiland. The information comes lower than two weeks after he was charged with home violence in Orange County.

“Grownup Swim has ended its affiliation with Justin Roiland,” stated an announcement posted on social media and the official “Rick and Morty” accounts. “Rick and Morty will proceed.”

Roiland, who additionally co-created and stars in Hulu’s “Photo voltaic Opposites,” appeared in courtroom on Jan. 12 for a pretrial listening to associated to prices filed in Could 2020.

Based on the grievance obtained by The Instances, Roiland is going through one depend of home battery with corporal damage and one depend of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and deceit.

The grievance says the costs are associated to an alleged incident that occurred on or about Jan. 19, 2020, involving an unnamed Jane Doe who was relationship Roiland at the moment. Orange County Superior Court docket information point out Roiland pleaded not responsible to each felony counts when he was arraigned in October 2020.

Based on these courtroom information, Roiland had been launched after posting a $50,000 bond that August.

Roiland’s legal professional denied the costs, saying in an announcement to The Instances on Jan. 12 that his shopper is “harmless” and so they count on “that this matter is heading in the right direction to be dismissed as soon as the District Lawyer’s workplace has accomplished its methodical evaluate of the proof.”

The author-actor’s authorized consultant didn’t instantly reply to The Instances’ request for remark Tuesday.

The courtroom will reconvene for Roiland’s pretrial listening to on April 27.

For six seasons, Roiland voiced the titular characters of “Rick and Morty,” mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his grandson Morty Smith. The roles will almost certainly be recast, as a consultant for Grownup Swim informed The Instances Tuesday that “the present will proceed with out [Roiland’s] involvement.”

“Rick and Morty” was renewed by means of Season 10 as a part of Grownup Swim’s 70-episode pick-up in 2018. Roiland and Dan Harmon co-created the Emmy Award-winning collection, which debuted in 2013.

In Tuesday’s announcement, Grownup Swim added that “the gifted and devoted crew are arduous at work on Season 7.”

Instances workers author Tracy Brown contributed to this report.