Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden are the new voices of Rick and Morty

The other night, Rick and Morty aired the first episode of season 7, “How Poopy Got His Poop Back.” (The show is obviously classy as ever.) This was a big one for the show, since it was the first time fans would get to hear the new voice actors for Rick and Morty in action. Adult Swim had previously featured their voices in a trailer but didn’t tell people who the actors were.

But now we know: Rick Sanchez will be played by Ian Cardoni…

…and Morty Smith will be played by Harry Belden:

Producers recast the two titles roles after Justin Roiland, who was one of the creators of the show in addition to voicing both Rick and Morty, was charged with domestic violence and false imprisonment. There were also a lot of stories floating around about him being difficult to work with. Those charges were eventually dropped, but the damage to Roiland’s reputation had been done. He and Adult Swim parted ways, which led to hiring Cardoni and Belden.

Remaining Rick and Morty creator contemplates a movie, possibly with help from Zack Snyder

This puts Rick and Morty in a strange place. Will fans accept the new voice actors? Can the series get on without its original creator?

Well, the series has several more seasons to go before it finishes its order of 70 new episodes from Adult Swim. Two of those seasons are already written, so Rick and Morty will be around for a while, regardless of how Cardoni and Belden work out.

Co-creator Dan Harmon, who is also behind the NBC show Community, is thinking longterm. He told The Hollywood Reporter that, if he had his way, Rick and Morty would run for 100 seasons. That said, he did have thoughts about the potential ending for the series when THR asked him about it. “It would maybe just be Morty turning 15 and finding a girlfriend that actually makes him want to be an independent person, so everything is kind of destroyed because Morty just wants to be a teenager now and start to grow up,” Harmon said. “Yeah, maybe Morty’s 15th birthday would be the catastrophic sinking of that Titanic.”

Along the way, Harmon is open to making a Rick and Morty movie. In fact, none other than Justice League director Zack Snyder spoke to Harmon one day about trying to help make that happen. “He was totally a super fan and was just like, ‘Is there any way I can help get that movie started by using my Snyder-ness?’” Harmon remembered.

To be clear, there’s no firm plan for a Rick and Morty movie as yet, although Harmon has had a meeting with Warner Bros. executives where “it felt like maybe it was time to get the ball rolling.”

"My philosophy would be to just take a Rick and Morty adventure, and spend a bunch of extra money on it and make it 90 minutes long. Not to try to earn its feature status by virtue of canonical dramatic tone shifts or anything like that, but rather to just make it a super badass episode of Rick and Morty…I think less is more there because then we can let our animators go nuts, and the animation can be fancier and there can be crazy sequences and stuff."

New episodes of Rick and Morty air Sundays on Adult Swim.

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h/t Deadline