Just recently, as the world seemed to be crumbling around me, I pointed my portal gun towards the wall of my study. If only I could escape, just for a moment. Just then Rick and Morty composer Ryan Elders (Rick and Morty, Boss Baby) jumps through a portal to Dimension SD-20 to chat with me for a Bleeding Cool interview (Link). We can discuss current events such as San Diego Comic Con (or lack thereof) and what exactly is going on with the pandemic? By most standards, our world currently suspiciously resembles something a young space adventurer and his grandfather might have to resolve. I start by asking Ryan “Has Rick Sanchez Chroninberged our dimension? 

To which he replies “He’s probably already left the planet. He’s on to a normal life.”

Listen in here as we discuss his love for Star Trek: Next Generation, His favorite SDCC moments, and what he is currently working on. Listen true believers.

“For the “Don’t Look Back Song”, that was supposed to function more like a needle drop. Where there was an existing song and we put it in the episode. The episode was temped with a modern song that had an introspective moody vibe to it. So I knew (to) do something like that. I mapped something out in terms of what would work with the story. There was no vocals in the beginning, and there was vocals that popped in in- between Rick’s lines of dialogue. So I sort of post scored it. I wrote a real song that was post scored to the episode. .. I sent my sketch to Lauren, Katomi- her name is Lauren Culjak, and we “back and forthed” it until it was a final, a song that we were both pretty happy with.”- Ryan Elder

Depending on when you are reading this Ryan was a panelist on the Composer Squares Game Show at Comic-Con@Home panel. A Hollywood Squares -like game show that fits perfectly with the landscape we find ourselves working in right now. Moderators from BMI’s Anne Cecere and White Bear PR's Chandler Poling

have raised the level of online panels to more than just a glorified Zoom meeting into something more fun and exciting. 

Fellow panelists Lorne Balfe (His Dark Materials, Mission: Impossible Fallout), Jongnic Bontemps (Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story), Christopher Lennertz (Lost in Space, Supernatural), and Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli (The Witcher) are prepared answer trivia questions on topics like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and even the Golden Girls. So what is Elder’s field of expertise?

“That’s the great thing about Hollywood squares, if you don’t know the answers it’s almost more fun because you get to make up something and try to fool people. I am looking forward to people getting to see it. I guess I know the MCU pretty well, My wife and I watched all of them in a row last year, before Endgame came out. They are fun, they are just a lot of fun.”

Dig the video from the virtual con Comic-Con@Home 2020 here.