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Big news for “Invincible” fans: Jack Quaid will be joining the voice cast in Season 5 and the show has already scored an early Season 6 renewal.
During Prime Video’s first-ever panel at Annecy Animation Festival on Wednesday,
executive producer and co-showrunner Robert Kirkman revealed that Quaid will play Gravitator/Chris and shared a first-look image of the character (see above). Kirkman and Prime Video head of animation Melissa Wolfe then shared the news that “Invincible” has been renewed for a sixth season before its fifth has even premiered, making it the streamer’s longest animated series to date.
Kirkman and Wolfe appeared on the action-packed panel alongside “The Legend of Vox Machina” and “The Mighty Nein” executive producer Sam Riegel, “Helluva Boss” EP Vivienne Medrano and “Secret Level” EP Dave Wilson. Elsewhere during the conversation, Riegel shared two first-look clips for attendees: one from the finale episode of “Vox Machina” Season 4 featuring Pike’s showdown with The Whispered One/Gideon, and the other from Season 2 of “The Mighty Nein” showing the titular group of misfits joining the fight to save Nicodranas during a goblin raid.
Meanwhile, Medrano revealed that the first part of “Helluva Boss” Season 3 will premiere on Oct. 14 and shared a first clip, while audiences were also treated to the first official trailerfor “Batman: Caped Crusader” Season 2, which premieres July 31.
Other animated titles in development at Prime Video include “Conan the Barbarian” (working title) from Cartoon Network Studios, “Wytches,” “Lore Olympus” and “Odd Jobs.”
“Prime Video held its first Studio Focus Panel at Annecy which is a milestone for us, and the announcements we shared today reflect the scale of our ambition,” Wolfe said in a statement. “Renewing ‘Invincible’ for a sixth season, bringing ‘Batman: Caped Crusader ‘back this summer, and developing bold new titles like ‘Wytches’ and Lore ‘Olympus’ are the kinds of stories that prove animation isn’t a genre, it’s a canvas. We’re building a home where the best creators in the world want to tell their biggest stories.”
