According to Disney XD series creator Chris Prynoski, his futuristic car-crazy animated show had a long winding path to actually getting on the air. "It's actually an idea I've had for a long time—oh, for ten years—actually, the original network I sold it to was MTV, who ultimately passed on it." Motorcity takes place in future Detroit, which has been refashioned into the metropolis Detroit Deluxe by a sinister corporation headed by Abraham Kane (Mark Hamill). The gloss of this shiny new city is tarnished by the corporation's restrictions of all personal freedoms including personal transportation, leading a gang of teens calling themselves "Burners" to excavate, rebuild, and turbo-charge cars in the old Detroit underneath the new one.
While the home base may have passed on it, Eric Colman, who took the pitch while at another network, remembered Prynoski's pitch when the executive became the Senior Vice President of Original Animation for Disney, and urged Prynoski to bring his "future car show over to the mouse house. Read More...
