FX is looking for the next Archer with the news that it’s ordered a new animated action comedy pilot by Archer creator Adam Reed and Modern Family and Community writer Megan Ganz. According to Variety, the pilot – titled Cassius & Clay – is in the vein of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and will follow “two women living as bandits in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic America.†The pilot will feature an all-star voice cast starring Kaitlin Olson as the “hard-drinking, quick-thinking, fast-talking bull-sh-tter†Cassius and Lake Bell as Clay, “the fastest gun in the post-apocalyptic South who doesn’t go looking for trouble.†Susan Sarandon, Jeffrey Tambor, JB Smoove, Kevin Michael Richardson, Stephen Root, Katy Mixon, and Robert Patrick will round out the voice cast.
FX Orders Animated Pilot ‘Cassius & Clay’ by Megan Ganz and Adam Reed
