Rick and Morty trailer introduces soundalikes replacing Justin Roiland

Adult Swim released a brand new trailer. Rick and Morty season 7 Monday, offering a first glimpse at the Sanchez family’s forthcoming shenanigans across the multiverse, and most importantly, the premiere of the new voices behind the series’ titular duo.

Justin Roiland, the series’ co-creator and the original voice actor behind Rick and Morty, was fired by Adult Swim earlier this year after felony charges of domestic violence from May 2020 came to light. This case has since been dismissed. But Rolling Stone recently reported on new sexual assault allegations. During a panel dedicated to the show’s 10th anniversary at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, executive producer Steve Levy said the new voices of Rick and Morty would be soundalikes, rather than brand new takes on the character.

“It’s soundalikes. Characters are identical. No change,” said Levy, clearly and without hesitation. Of the completion status of the process, he said: “We are closing in on the end of our process of the recast.”

No word yet as to who exactly has been casted as Rick and Morty (Polygon has reached out to Adult Swim for comment), but from what we’ve heard of the trailer, the voices sound pretty spot-on. Sure, Rick doesn’t You can also read more about it here. have that same staccato stutter and Morty’s tone sounds a wee-bit high, but if you closed your eyes and if nobody had told you about they’d be recast, you wouldn’t have even discerned the difference.

Rick and MortySeason 7 of Adult Swim premieres Oct. 15, 2018.