Netflix announced on Thursday it has greenlit “My Dad the Bounty Hunter,” a brand new animated series created by “Hair Love” director Everett Downing and “Hotel Transylvania” sequel artist Patrick Harpin.
Per the show’s official logline, “My Dad the Bounty Hunter” is an action-comedy show that “follows the toughest bounty hunter in all the galaxy, a man with razor-sharp skills but also a secret – his family on Earth has no idea what he does for a living. So when his two kids accidentally hitch a ride into outer space and crash his latest mission, they discover that their average Dad’s job is anything but boring. Dodging dangerous aliens and laser fights galore, this family bonding time goes to the extreme. Wait until mom finds out…”
“My Dad the Bounty Hunter” will star Russell Hornsby (“The Hate U Give”), Yvonne Orji (“Insecure”), Priah Ferguson (“Stranger Things”), Yvette Nicole Brown (“Community”), JeCobi Swain (“Troop Zero”), Leslie Uggams (“Deadpool”), Rob Riggle (“The Hangover”) and Jim Rash (“Community”).
Everett Downing and Patrick Harpin will also serve as executive producers, with Dwarf Animation Studio handling the CGI animation.
“We can’t wait to share our brainchild with the world. My Dad the Bounty Hunter is a love letter to animation, science fiction, and Black families rolled into a crazy action-comedy. We threw everything we love about sci-fi into this show, but it’s the family at the center of the story that we’re most excited about,” Downing and Harpin said in a statement.
Black guy to show the press, white guy to actually run the show.
Julian Rivera
Terry Crews needs to voice the dad
Luis Martinez
Why are they black
Colton Gutierrez
Looks promising
Connor Roberts
Do you not understand the current political climate?
Mason Jackson
Terry Crews was stripped of his black license for not cow towing to the “proper” line of thinking when it came to BLM
Hudson Lee
Why not?
Tyler Barnes
No Terry Crews lost when he let that old man fondle his dick at that party in front of his wife and went and cried in the car instead of knocking the guy out.
Aiden Martin
Hope the black dude fucks the alien chick on the side
Ryan Parker
Because the creator is black.
Wyatt Butler
>Quit race swapping characters, make your own stories! >Why does this brand new project have black characters?
Gavin Hughes
Out of the 1,1 billion people in the US and Europe, around 50 million are black, which is less than 5%, it's a strange demographic to target.
Jose Ward
One of the people working on this is black user, they even did Hair Love.
Jackson Wright
It's still strange for studios to finance a project that would almost definitely bring in more money/subscribers at the same expense, if the cast was white or a mix of races.
Christopher Fisher
Burgers?
Camden Cox
>My Dad the Bounty Hunter is a love letter to animation, Sure. >science fiction, Fine. >and Black families And there's the bullshit. Dropped.
its about family BLACK families, user. Black with a capital B.
Luke Robinson
Looks cool. Plus Rob Riggle. Love that motherfucker
They have other projects, plus it's strange no one ask something like this about that movie with the little girl who flew to the moon.
Adam Baker
i'm sorry they put blacks in a cartoon user
Lincoln Collins
Cause the series will end with the father going to buy some space smokes.
Nolan Collins
Looks alright, maybe my kids will like it.
Benjamin Adams
>She said between lines of crushed amphetamines
Chase Murphy
we wuz science an shit.
Henry Harris
Having other projects is barely an explanation, the capitalist companies I know do everything in their power to squeeze out every single cent they can, and don't do anything out of the goodness of their hearts. Why intentionally choose to fund projects that will make you less money, guaranteed.
Hunter Edwards
They made a movie for black people, instead of shoehorning them into your precious media. Isn't that what you wanted?
