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Pete Davidson, 28, has been a fixture on "Saturday Night Live" since 2014. In addition to being a comedian, he is an actor, screenwriter and producer. While he is considered to be a formidible, and.
The Freak Brothers, according to
Based on the 1960s underground comic
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, the series follows three San Francisco stoners who smoke a magical weed strain in 1969 and get transported 50 years into the future the world as we currently know it.
Co-stars include Woody Harrelson, who plays laid-back Freewheelin’ Franklin Freek, John Goodman as man-child Fat Freddy Freekowtski and Pete Davidson as paranoid Phineas T. Phreakers. Tiffany Haddish voices Kitty, with La La Anthony appearing as social-advocate lawyer Gretchen.
Rick & Morty studios Starburns Industries and Pure Imagination Studios did the animation for the eight-episode first season, which has already wrapped up production but doesn’t have a broadcaster/streamer confirmed yet.
The Freak Brothers Animated Series Moving Ahead With Lionsgate
The latest effort to revive cult comic
The Freak Brothers as an animated series is moving ahead with Lionsgate on board and a star-studded cast that includes Woody Harrelson, John Coodman, Pete Davidson, and Tiffany Haddish. The series is based on
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, a 1960s undergroudn comic created by Gilbert Shelton. The comic followed a trio of stoner brothers who get shunted from 1969 to 2020 after smoking a magical strain of marijuana. With 2020 now in the past, it changes the comedy a bit from a speculative, quasi-psychadelic future to a current day/recent-past story that will theoretically allow for a different kind of humor.