The concept originates from an Adult Swim pitch contest at Comic-Con 2017, with the pair developing the story while waiting in line.
He has since stepped out of his unofficial retirement with a couple of special appearances, but Moranis almost marked his return with a starring role in a bizarre cartoon series on Adult Swim called The Gatekeeper.
Rick Moranis could have come out of retirement to voice a demon-slaying version of himself in a bizarre cartoon series for Adult Swim, but the network ultimately passed on the idea.
Still, the pair say that Adult Swim chose to shut the series down before it could make it any further into production, simply because “they felt nobody would know who Rick Moranis was.”