The “Danger Zone” is about to get a whole lot more tropical. FX revealed at San Diego Comic-Con that season nine of Archer will be subtitled Danger Island, taking place on a remote beach in the South Pacific in 1939, where Sterling will be an eyepatch-wearing seaplane pilot. This sounds fantastic.
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This next season will mark the fourth time that Archer has done anthologies that are disconnected from Archer‘s original narrative, like last season’s noir drama Archer: Dreamland. This time around, executive producer Matt Thompson said he and series creator Adam Reed wanted to do something wacky, moving away from the dark, more-intense-than-normal theme they ended up with last year.
Someone call Kenny Loggins. We’re heading to Danger Island next season. #ArcherFXX #SDCC2017 pic.twitter.com/PBLxWh1ePz
— Archer (@archerfxx) July 22, 2017
“We loved it, but things got pretty dark, pretty fast,” Thompson said. “Adam Reed has been talking about doing something fun and just having a blast. There will be quicksand, cannibals and super intelligent monkeys.”
During the Comic-Con panel, we got details about what each of the characters will be doing in this latest anthology season. Seaplane pilot Archer will be joined by co-pilot Pam Poovy and a “talking, fucking” parrot named Crackers, who will be voiced by the guy who normally plays Dr Krieger. Lana is a princess. Charlotte is an heiress on her honeymoon. Cyril is now Cypurt Fuchs, a British intelligence officer in disguise. And Mallory, now a bar owner, will return to her original role as Sterling Archer’s mother — something Jessica Walter said she was happy about.
“There’s something about what she does to him as a mother that’s so vile because she’s his mother, as opposed to when he’s a stranger,” Walter said.
No word when season nine will debut, but enjoy it — last September, Reed revealed that Archer would end its run after season 10.
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