This was my fucking show and it fucking deserves a damn ending...
Genndy Tartakovsky wants to return to another of his cult series
Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, the new animated series from acclaimed director Genndy Tartakovsky, is set to premiere this Thursday at midnight on Adult Swim and Max. In a media landscape largely defined by a torrential flood of sequels, prequels, reboots, soft-reboots, spinoffs, and reimaginings, Tartakovsky’s latest feels like genuinely precious rarity: An original animated series about a trio of immortal warriors fighting a primordial evil across time and space, and a passion project nearly two decades in the making with genuinely interesting characters, a unique setting, and an inspired steampunk art style.
While Tartakovsky appears more focused on producing his own original projects as of late, with the premiere of Unicorn: Warriors Eternal and the R-rated comedy feature Fixed set to appear at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, he hasn’t entirely eschewed the possibility of continuing some of his beloved past series. In addition to a potential third season of Primal, likely centering on Spear and his lover Mira’s daughter, Tartakovsky told Polygon he has yet another series he would love the opportunity to close the book on. It’s one of his lesser known (but no less ambitious) projects to date, with a passionate cult following of fans who share its creators’ desire to see the story finished: Sym-Bionic Titan.
Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, the new animated series from acclaimed director Genndy Tartakovsky, is set to premiere this Thursday at midnight on Adult Swim and Max. In a media landscape largely defined by a torrential flood of sequels, prequels, reboots, soft-reboots, spinoffs, and reimaginings, Tartakovsky’s latest feels like genuinely precious rarity: An original animated series about a trio of immortal warriors fighting a primordial evil across time and space, and a passion project nearly two decades in the making with genuinely interesting characters, a unique setting, and an inspired steampunk art style.
While Tartakovsky appears more focused on producing his own original projects as of late, with the premiere of Unicorn: Warriors Eternal and the R-rated comedy feature Fixed set to appear at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, he hasn’t entirely eschewed the possibility of continuing some of his beloved past series. In addition to a potential third season of Primal, likely centering on Spear and his lover Mira’s daughter, Tartakovsky told Polygon he has yet another series he would love the opportunity to close the book on. It’s one of his lesser known (but no less ambitious) projects to date, with a passionate cult following of fans who share its creators’ desire to see the story finished: Sym-Bionic Titan.
“Going back to stuff like Dexter’s Laboratory, that’s a stretch I think.” Tartakovsky tells Polygon. “The voice of Dexter passed away, and half the soul of that show was her, and so that would be a hard thing to return to. And then with Samurai Jack, we were able to finish that. For Titan, we had a third season planned, and then they canceled it. And it drives you crazy because it’s done… but it’s not really done, right? So yes, some things like that, I would want to go back and finish.”
A revival of Sym-Bionic Titan may sound like an uphill battle, at least from the outside looking in, but never bet against Tartakovsky. After all, we’re talking about a director who came back to produce a final season of Samurai Jack more than a decade after the award-winning action-adventure series was unexpectedly canceled. With Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, a series over 20 years removed from its inception, finally reaching audiences this week, there may still be hope yet for the long-awaited return of Tartakovsky’s young adult mecha drama.
Genndy Tartakovsky wants to return to another of his cult series
‘There’s more to finish. It’s just nobody’s letting me do it just yet’
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