Disenchantment trailer: Matt Groening teases new animated fantasy show
It marks Groening's first new project in almost 20 years
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Your support makes all the difference.Though Matt Groening‘s past creations – The Simpsons and Futurama – certainly welcomed younger fans, his latest series is strictly for adults.
Netflix has released the first teaser for Disenchantment, which follows a hard-drinking princess named Bean, her elf companion Elfo, and personal demon Luci, as they traverse the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland and encounter all sorts of mystical creatures.
The show has been described by John DiMaggio, the voice of Bender in Futurama and Disenchantment‘s resident monarch, as the offspring of The Simpsons and Game of Thrones; though that’s not something we’ve never seen before.
It’s also Groening’s first new project in almost 20 years, joined here by former Simpsons writer Josh Weinstein, with the voice talent of Abbi Jacobson, Nat Faxon, and Eric Andre.
They’ll also be joined by the likes of Matt Berry, Noel Fielding, David Herman, Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, Jeny Batten, Rich Fulcher, and Lucy Montgomery. Rough Draft Studios — who worked with Groening on Futurama — are behind the animation.
“Ultimately,” Groening said in a statement, “Disenchantment will be about life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots, despite what the elders and wizards and other jerks tell you.”
Disenchantment will premiere on Netflix on the 17 August.
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