Critical Role's upcoming animated series for Amazon Prime, The Legend of Vox Machina, has assembled its writing team. Critical Role is an immensely popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing web show. Following its mega-successful Kickstarter campaign, The Legend of Vox Machina - an animated show from Titmouse Studios based on the first DnD campaign featured on Critical Role - was picked up by Amazon and is expected to release on the streaming service in Fall 2020.
Leading the writing staff for Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina is Brandon Auman. Auman has previously worked on Star Wars Resistance and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He will also serve as the show's executive producer alongside Chris Prynoski (Metalocalypse, Big Mouth). Joining him are Ashly Burch, Jennifer Muro, Marc Bernardin, Chris “Doc” Wyatt, Kevin Burke, Daniel Thomsen, and Mae Catt. Eugene Son will serve as The Legend of Vox Machina's story editor, while Meredith Kecskemety will be its writer’s assistant. The staff's writing credits include work on shows like Adventure Time, Castle Rock, and Westworld, among others.
Critical Role's Kickstarter campaign for The Legend of Vox Machina is the highest-funded TV, film, or animated project in the history of the crowd-funding platform, totaling $11.3 million upon its completion. Originally envisioned as a 22-minute special, the campaign's success led the animated show to receive a 24-episode order. The Legend of Cox Machina will see Critical Role's cast - Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel and Travis Willingham - all reprise their roles.
You can watch a video featuring interviews with Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina's newly-hired writing staff, below:
"Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina follows a group of second-rate adventurers on a quest to save the realm from terrifying monsters and dark magical forces. Throughout the first season, our characters will face undead giants, overthrow a sinister necromancer, and confront a powerful curse that has taken root inside their own group. Through it all, they learn how to function as a team, and discover they’re much more than that: they’re family."