Fun First Look Promo Video for ARCHER: 1999, Which Has a 70s and 80s Sci-Fi Vibe
If you’re a fan of Archer and you’re excited about the upcoming tenth season, which is being called Archer: 1999, we have something for you to enjoy today! FXX has released a “First Look” promo video giving us a tease of what we can expect to see.
The video features some new footage from the upcoming season and also includes interviews with the cast and crew hyping up the series to get fans excited. Executive producer Casey Willis explains:
“This is more like a merchant marine ship of a ragtag crew. You’ll see a lot of influence from Aliens and 2001, shows like Space: 1999… Sci-fi is a huge genre. We kind of narrowed it down to like a late ‘70s, early ‘80s sci-fi vibe.”
As you’ll see, they completely nailed that vibe and there’s no doubt that it’s going to be a blast! In Season 9, “Danger Island,” we saw Sterling Archer seemingly waking from the coma he's been in since the end of Season 7 and finding himself in a cryogenic pod on board a spaceship. A lot of fans thought that this might mean the next chapter would be set in the distant future, but it’s really just set in the year 1999.
There were some early details revealed for Archer: 1999 during the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con. This is what was reported:
"Archer, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, will play the co-captain of the USS Figgis. Alongside him is his co-captain and ex-wife Lana Kane (played by Aisha Tyler); the two just went through a “nasty divorce,” so fans can expect more of their trademark heated (and hilarious) bickering.
“Lana is the co-captain and that causes a lot of tension between her and Archer because she owns half the ship,” [Executive Producer Casey] Willis said.
Mallory (Jessica Walter) will be the ship’s artificial intelligence and a “possible being of pure energy”; Cheryl (Judy Greer) is a hotshot fighter pilot, but she’s not happy about it. “[She] hates it. So she’s always bored with doing what she’s really good at,” Willis said.
Ray (voiced by series creator Adam Reed) is the “loneliest courtesan” in the galaxy, while Pam Poovey (Amber Nash) is a “brutish alienoid.” Finally, the former Dr. Krieger is now a synthetic android.”
There was a report that Archer: 1999 was going to be released in April, but that didn’t happen. Now it’s set to be released on May 29th! So we don’t have to wait very long!