The animated action comedy series, introduced at Annecy in 2024 as ‘Heist Safari,’ is now in production
“Heist Brothers,” an animated action comedy first teased by Genndy Tartakovsky at 2024’s Annecy as “Heist Safari,” has now been fully greenlit for series by Adult Swim.
The news looks like some of the biggest at this year’s Adult Swim Studio Focus, a fixture on Friday at Annecy which draws to a close the big U.S. studio showcases at a French festival which they have made their own.
“I’m pretty sure this is the most bonkers thing being made right now,” head of Adult Swim Michael Ouweleen said at an Adult Swim Studio Focus, promising a mix of Tex Avery and Guy Ritchie with a “wall to wall custom made EDM” soundtrack. Ouweleen tentatively hopes for a work in progress session to be hosted at next year’s Annecy Festival.
It is unclear how far the series will vary from details released last year at Annecy where Tartakovsky sneak peeked animatics from the first episode of the show. They featured three frog brothers who are attempting to rob a bank chasing a bank vault manager mouse before it can make it to the security button.
“The sequence, for which Ouweleen pointed out Tex Avery influences, is a burst of kinetic visual comedy, backed by aggressive EDM music,” Variety wrote.
The green ight announcement was made at an Adult Swim First Looks and Creative Voices’ Studio Focus presentation at the 2026 Annecy Animation Festival, following the unveil, made in exclusivity by Variety, of a Cartoon Network docuseries and two new specials from “Robot Chicken,” all reflecting on Cartoon Network and Adult Swim’s intertwined history as Cartoon Network turns 35.
The Adult Swim Studio Focus also took in various behind-the-scenes presentations from across the festival, for works such as the upcoming second season of “Common Side Effects,” “My Two Cars,” “Rick and Morty” and its upcoming spin off, the Keith David-starring “President Curtis.”
