After a decade’s absence, Mark Wahlberg is coming again for Ted: The Animated Collection, and Seth MacFarlane says it will likely be definitely worth the wait.
Wahlberg starred with MacFarlane within the first two Ted motion pictures as John Bennett, the mild-mannered slacker whose childhood want of bringing his teddy bear to life got here true and changed into a lifelong friendship. After the second movie noticed a extra blended vital and industrial reception in comparison with the primary, the franchise went on hiatus for years, ultimately returning with a prequel sequence centered on John and Ted’s teenage years.
Throughout a latest interview with ScreenRant‘s Grant Hermanns for season 2 of the prequel present, MacFarlane was requested about progress on Ted: The Animated Collection. Whereas cautious to not share an excessive amount of, the five-time Emmy winner praised co-creators Brad Walsh and Paul Corrigan for doing “a unbelievable job of pulling collectively one thing very new” with the sequel present, whereas additionally being “very devoted to the Ted universe” as they run the manufacturing on a “week-to-week foundation.”
He went on to elucidate that the present will choose up “instantly” the place the 2015 sequel ended, and brings again Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Jessica Barth, whereas additionally introducing Liz Richman and Kyle Mooney and praising them as being “an ideal solid.” MacFarlane, specifically, praised Wahlberg for his work on the sequence, given it’s a uncommon voiceover efficiency from the two-time Oscar nominee, and teasing that the Ted sequel might go on for a number of seasons:
Seth MacFarlane: It is an ideal present that I believe, if folks latch onto it, might go for a very long time. It is actually much less advanced than producing a present with an animated CGI teddy bear on a weekly foundation, which makes you are feeling such as you’re doing a Marvel film eight occasions a season. However I believe persons are going to love it. It is attention-grabbing, I do not know that Wahlberg has ever completed animation voiceover, however he simply took to it like a duck to water. He was unbelievable, and also you immediately know that it is him. He is simply actually channeling all that labored in regards to the movies, and I believe persons are going to love it.
A lot to MacFarlane’s level, Ted: The Animated Collection marks solely the second-ever vocal efficiency from Wahlberg throughout his near-40-year profession. Previous to the Peacock comedy, Wahlberg made his voice performing debut with 2022’s Scoob!, the reboot of the Scooby-Doo movie franchise meant to launch a Hanna-Barbera shared universe. He co-starred within the movie as Brian Crown/Blue Falcon, the superhero who labored with Dynomutt within the latter’s sequence.
It was beforehand confirmed that Wahlberg and MacFarlane can be joined by their fellow franchise vets, Seyfried and Barth, for Ted: The Animated Collection, although that is the primary indication how shut within the timeline it will likely be, given MacFarlane says it is “instantly” after the second movie. This setting provides the inventive crew loads of tales to discover, notably Ted and Tami-Lynn’s early days of parenting their adopted son, in addition to John and Sam’s early relationship after many of the sequel gave them a “will-the-won’t-they” dynamic.
MacFarlane’s tease of their being a number of animated Ted seasons would additionally give each Wahlberg and Barth their first multiple-season roles. To this point, Wahlberg’s solely scripted TV roles had been that of the1993 TV movie The Substitute and enjoying himself in HBO’s Entourage, whereas Barth has made one-off appearances in every little thing from MacFarlane’s personal Household Man, even earlier than the primary Ted, to CSI and Cougar City.
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With it already having been almost a yr for the reason that present’s announcement, and the celebrities having reportedly completed their vocal work, Ted: The Animated Collection might very effectively make its approach to screens earlier than the tip of the yr. Given Ted season 2, which MacFarlane additionally seemingly confirmed to ScreenRant can be the tip of the live-action sequence, is true across the nook, he and Peacock might look to maintain this yr’s deal with that present. Plus, if stories of The Orville season 4’s filming show true, his schedule might higher profit by saving the animated sequel for a 2027 debut.
Ted season 2 begins streaming in its entirety on Peacock on March 5.
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Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild
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January 11, 2024
The Ted franchise is a raunchy comedy sequence created by Seth MacFarlane, centered round John Bennett and his crude, speaking teddy bear, Ted. The sequence, recognized for its humor and commentary on friendship and maturity, contains two movies and a prequel tv sequence.