According to The Hollywood Reporter, Adult Swim has ordered nine episodes of a new show from the guys behind Robot Chicken. The new show is called Titan Maximum, will also be made using stop-motion animation, and will parody the Japanese-originating series that revolved around teams of pilots whose ships could combine to make one big ship. Think Voltron or Power Rangers.
Anyway, it’s set 100 years in the future when mankind has colonized the solar system. A team of young pilots defend Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, with their robot ships that can combine to form the Titan Maximum. The squad is disbanded due to budget cuts but must regroup when a former member turns villain and tries to take control of the solar system. Seth Green is set to voice the villain while Breckin Meyer, Rachael Leigh Cook, Dan Milano and Eden Espinosa will round out the main voice cast. Tom Root and Matthew Senreich are the creators and will be joined in executive producing by Seth Green. The creators will be aided in the writing room by comics writers Geoff Johns and Zeb Wells.
Tom Root said this about the show’s tone:
“There were always teams of extraordinary young people with the fate of the universe in their hands. In reality, that would end terribly. The last thing you want when giant monsters attack is a bunch of teenagers in charge of defending you. ‘Titan Maximum’ is about what would really happen if a team of idiot kids was in charge of a 6-story-tall robot.”
Sounds a bit like The Venture Bros in its parodying of an old formula, at least as an initial springboard, although I imagine this will be more silly and less mythology-driven.
Titan Maximum is currently scheduled to debut in September.
