HBO Max has ordered Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake straight to series. The new show will follow Fionna and her magical cat Cake in a brand new, half-hour animated series.
Fionna and Cake were first introduced in the third season of Adventure Time as female versions of Finn and Jake. The musical episode also included alternate takes on other Adventure Time characters including Prince Gumball and Marshall Lee (a male version of Marceline).
The original episode was written and storyboarded by Adam Muto and Rebecca Sugar, and Muto will return as showrunner and executive producer for the Fionna and Cake spinoff.
According to a synopsis, Fionna and Cake will “embark on a multiverse-hopping adventure and journey of self-discovery. All the while a powerful new antagonist determined to track them down and erase them from existence, lurks in the shadows.”
No word yet on which other characters will appear in the show other than Simon Petrikov, the former Ice King. This seems to suggest that Fionna and Cake are set after the events of Adventure Time.
Furthermore, there have been no casting announcements so it’s unclear if Madeleine Martin will reprise her role as Fionna for the series.
Adventure Time ended its critically-acclaimed run on Cartoon Network in 2018 and HBO is getting ready to wrap up its special series Adventure Time Distant Lands on HBO Max. But with the new series announcement, it sounds like the company isn’t ready to leave the Land of Ooo just yet.
Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.
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Fionna and Cake were first introduced in the third season of Adventure Time as female versions of Finn and Jake. The musical episode also included alternate takes on other Adventure Time characters including Prince Gumball and Marshall Lee (a male version of Marceline).
The original episode was written and storyboarded by Adam Muto and Rebecca Sugar, and Muto will return as showrunner and executive producer for the Fionna and Cake spinoff.
According to a synopsis, Fionna and Cake will “embark on a multiverse-hopping adventure and journey of self-discovery. All the while a powerful new antagonist determined to track them down and erase them from existence, lurks in the shadows.”
No word yet on which other characters will appear in the show other than Simon Petrikov, the former Ice King. This seems to suggest that Fionna and Cake are set after the events of Adventure Time.
Furthermore, there have been no casting announcements so it’s unclear if Madeleine Martin will reprise her role as Fionna for the series.
Adventure Time ended its critically-acclaimed run on Cartoon Network in 2018 and HBO is getting ready to wrap up its special series Adventure Time Distant Lands on HBO Max. But with the new series announcement, it sounds like the company isn’t ready to leave the Land of Ooo just yet.
Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.
Continue reading...