Current Events > Has 'Archer' run its course? Season 10 to be set on a spaceship in the year 1999

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Archer is ready to party like its 1999 in space! The new season of FXs long-running animated series announced its new title for Season 10, and despite the futuristic setting, the new moniker alludes to a time 19 years in the past.

Blast off to: Archer: 1999,' executive producer Casey Willis announced Friday evening in San Diego.

Willis was joined by fellow executive producer Matt Thompson, art director Chad Hurd, and cast members H. Jon Benjamin (the voice of Archer), Jessica Walter (Mallory), Chris Parnell (Cyril), Amber Nash (Pam), and Lucky Yates, who was dressed in a parrot costume to honor his Season 9 character. FX didnt have any footage to show the Comic-Con guests, but fans already got a glimpse of next seasons footage during the Archer: Danger Island finale.

Weve literally just started working on it over the last couple weeks, EP Matt Thompson said. We recorded the first episode.

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Willis also shared character details for the new season. Sterling Archer, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, will play the co-captain of the USS Figgis. Alongside him is his co-captain and ex-wife Lana Kane (played by Aisha Tyler); the two just went through a nasty divorce, so fans can expect more of their trademark heated (and hilarious) bickering.

Lana is the co-captain and that causes a lot of tension between her and Archer because she owns half the ship, Willis said.

Mallory (Jessica Walter) will be the ships artificial intelligence and a possible being of pure energy; Cheryl (Judy Greer) is a hotshot fighter pilot, but shes not happy about it. [She] hates it. So shes always bored with doing what shes really good at, Willis said.

Ray (voiced by series creator Adam Reed) is the loneliest courtesan in the galaxy, while Pam Poovey (Amber Nash) is a brutish alienoid. Finally, the former Dr. Krieger is now a synthetic android.

Im even more excited about this new season because were going backwards instead of forward. Were going to outer space, Thompson said.

Eight episodes are scheduled for Season 10, as the series continues the anthology structure it adopted in 2016. Ever since Archer fell into a coma at the end of Season 7, Archer has started telling standalone stories over each season. First came Dreamland, which set up the dream scenario thats used to explain the characters new identities and each seasons new setting. Last year, the gang took a trip to Danger Island, set in the 1930s and focusing on a pilot who goes searching for buried treasure.

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2016 also marked when creator Adam Reed, who was not at the Comic-Con panel, said he planned to end the series after Season 10. More recently, he told IndieWire things are kind of up in the air and couldnt definitively say if the next season would be Archers last.

No one on the panel spoke to when the show would end (or when we might see Archer out of his coma), but Willis did confirm Reed is still working under the plan he established in Season 7.

Its leading somewhere, and I think everyone will be really excited to see where it goes, Willis said. The cast complained about the vague tease apparently, they dont even know whats going to happen but no more answers were provided.

Now that theyre headed to outer space, might the big screen be next?

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It is discussed, Thompson said of a movie. We have discussed it with our great friends at FX. Its not something weve said no to, but its got to be the right thing that makes sense for us to jump from that screen to that screen.

He later confirmed if they do make a movie, I believe it will be live-action.

Watch the opening video made for Comic-Con below. Archer Season 10 is expected in 2019 on FXX.

Between speculation that a movie (if there is one) would be live-action, combined with these silly season-long adventures that seem to be getting worse and worse (I couldn't even finish Danger Island), PLUS Reed saying (albeit two years ago) that season 10 would be the last...

Is this the beginning of the end?
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care
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bring back frisky dingo
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It ran its course quite a while ago. Vice and later were meh.
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This is suppose to be the final season iirc.
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How could they ever make it live-action given what some of the voice actors look like irl
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Bio1590 posted...

How could they ever make it live-action given what some of the voice actors look like irl

My first thought

H Jon Benjamin was in an early episode of Parks and Rec and I swear he was shorter than Amy Poehler
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Link43130 posted...

bring back frisky dingo

If they're in space I'll have to imagine that they'll run into the Frisky Dingo crew that got abducted.
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I gave up after the Magnum Archer season I'm pretty sure.

That was the one before Dreamland? I didn't even watch Dreamland or Adventure Island.

IMO if that was the route they were going to go, they should have done it during Vice. Vice was held back so bad by it being the traditional Archer characters.
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will he have a beagle
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I gave up when they left the continuity to do these one off seasons. I simply don't care. I'm sure most people don't feel this way but to me it was like being spit in the face by them. Get back to the story already.
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