HBO Max is doubling down on adult animation, ordering three series and establishing a busy development process.
The streamer delivered a two-season order for Clone High, the reboot of the classic MTV series with Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence, and ordered Velma with Mindy Kaling as a voice star and executive producer and Shot on Mars by Pete Davidson.
These projects are the last to be ordered by HBO Max, which also has Harley Quinn, The Prince, Santa Inc., 10 year old Tom and The Boondocks. Last month, it also introduced a new landing page for animation.
Clone High, a reboot of the 2002 series set in a school for clones of historical figures, comes from MTV Entertainment Studios. Lord and Miller are defined as executive producers and writers, Lawrence is the executive producer with Erica Rivinoja, who wrote in the original Clone High, called showrunner.
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Lord and Miller began their careers by writing, directing and producing executives Clone High – whose concept the duo first developed while at Dartmouth College in the 1990s – alongside Lawrence in 2002.
Velma tells the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unknown and underrated brain of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc gang. With voice and executive production from Kaling, the Warner Bros. series. Animation has Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein and Sam Register as executive producers.
Nate Sherman and Nick Vokey, who did Adult Swim’s Wet city, created Shot on Mars, an existential workplace comedy set on the Martian campus of a modern technology company. Based on your short film, SNL star Davidson voices a character and is executive producer with Carson Mell and Dave Sirus.
HBO Max also delivered JG Quintel’s adult animation comedy Close enough a two-season renewal. The show comes from Cartoon Network Studios.
Elsewhere, the company is producing presentations for a list of originals in development.
These include Hi Paul, about an ancient neurotic cat whose intense work and rat roommate taking advantage of the stress of creator and musician Sean Solomon; Obi, about a 30-year-old boy chasing his dream of becoming an artist while sailing into adulthood with his friends from Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society, Studio71 and David Devries, based on an Instagram comic and co-created by Obi Arisukwu and Arthur Harris; Supernatural Valley, creators Brendan Walter and Greg Yagolnitzer and executive producer Ed Helms who tell the story of three clumsy domestic robots that kill their human owners and try to take over their identities and come from Universal Television and Pacific Electric Picture Company; and To cover, an adaptation of the series Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack DC Comics, an animated spy thriller and a conspiratorial love letter to the comic book industry by Rooster Teeth.
“It is a tremendous privilege to develop the legacy of ‘cartoons’ from more than 100 years of this company. We can draw a straight line from our hundreds of childhood hours by watching Bugs fool Elmer to the current list of adult animation projects that we are building here at HBO Max and we think fans will agree, ”said Suzanna Makkos, EVP, Original Comedy and Adult Animation, HBO max. “We are proud to present this distinguished group of series from a wide range of diverse creators who will be a first stop destination for animation lovers everywhere.