HBO Max doubles the amount of adult animations, orders three series and creates a vibrant development slate.
The streamer has been handed an assignment for two seasons Clone high, the reboot of the classic MTV series with Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence, and ordered Velma with Mindy Kaling set as lead vocalist and executive producer as well Fired at Mars from Pete Davidson.
These projects are the last ones ordered by HBO Max, who too Harley Quinn, The Prince, Santa Inc., 10 year old Tom and The Boondocks. Last month, it also introduced a new animation landing page.
Clone high, a reboot of the 2002 series set in a high school for clones of historical figures, comes from MTV Entertainment Studios. Lord and Miller are set as executive producers and writers, Lawrence is executive producer with Erica Rivinoja, who wrote on the original Clone high, named as a showrunner.
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Lord and Miller began their careers writing, directing, and executive producing Clone high – whose concept the duo first developed at Dartmouth College in the 1990s – alongside Lawrence in 2002.
Velma tells the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underrated brain of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang. The Warner Bros. series Animation, voiced and produced by Kaling, has Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein and Sam Register as executive producers.
Nate Sherman and Nick Vokey, who created Adult Swim’s Wet city, have made Fired at Mars, an existential work comedy set on the Martian campus of a modern technology company. Based on their short film, SNL star Davidson voices a character and co-produces with Carson Mell and Dave Sirus.
HBO Max has also handed over JG Quintel’s adult animated comedy Good enough an extension of two seasons. The show comes from Cartoon Network Studios.
Elsewhere, the company produces presentations for a range of originals in developments.
These include Hi Paul, about a neurotic millennial cat whose intense job and freeloading mouse roommate emphasizes creator and musician Sean Solomon; Obi, about a 30-year-old male child who pursues his dream of becoming an artist while growing up 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; Uncanny Valley, from creators Brendan Walter and Greg Yagolnitzer and Executive Producer Ed Helms who tell the story of three clumsy domestic help robots who kill their human owners and try to assume their identities, from Universal Television and Pacific Electric Picture Company; and Hoes, an adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack’s DC Comics series, an animated spy thriller and conspiratorial love letter to the comic book industry from Rooster Teeth.
“It is a tremendous privilege to build on the legacy of more than 100 years of cartoons at this company. We can draw a straight line from our hundreds of childhoods spent watching Bugs outsmart Elmer to the current set of adult animations we’re 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 introduce this distinctive series of series from a wide variety of creators that will be a first stop for animation enthusiasts around the world.”