Here’s one for anyone who’s ever wanted to see Danny DeVito play a cartoon devil, constantly annoying his daughter Aubrey Plaza about how to raise his grandchild the Antichrist: A new FXX animated sitcom, Little Devil, in which the things we typed out back at the beginning of this sentence occur. Written by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner, and Kieran Valla, and co-executive-produced by Dan Harmon, the series will co-star DeVito’s real-life daughter, Lucy DeVito, as the potential world-ender that her mom and grandpops are fighting over.
Little Devil has been in development for a while now, as animation has continued to truck along quite merrily throughout the COVID-19 entertainment shutdowns. Now Variety confirms that the series is set to debut on FXX, presumably later this year. This is exciting for us on a personal level, obviously, because like most right-thinking people, we’re very into the idea of Danny DeVito voicing the devil. Are we a little mad that this is only happening in animation, so that we can’t also watch DeVito walk around in a devil suit, channeling Frank Reynolds at his worst? Obviously, but in this world, you sometimes have to take what you can get, and what you can get in this case is Little Devil.
Plaza and DeVito will both executive produce on the series.
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How old is Danny DeVito? 90-hundred?
He’s no Norman Lloyd, but he’s up there. (Actually, he’s 76.)
He can be 107 and still might pop out of your leather couch ass-naked.
Hmm, a show where we don’t get to see Aubrey Plaza, we only get to hear her.I’m skeptical.
She was fantastic in The Legend of Korra.
Agreed! Everyone was excellent on Legend Of Korra, the guy from Great News, the woman from Mad Men & Feud, the dude from Black Flag, the lady from House, Robin Williams’ kid… just amazing casting and voice work all around.
most shows have neither, and you completely ignore the majority of those, right?
Oddly, my issue with it is that we don’t see Danny de Vito. For a moment, I was truly looking forward to his (live action) take on the devil.
He was great in the 90s Hercules movie. Not quite as good as James Woods (as much as it pains me to say), but still excellent.
Let us not forget the awesomeness that is A Grumpy Cat Christmas.
Lucy, the Granddaughter of the Devil
I can’t help but read this and think of Golan the Insatiable, the short-lived animated series from when Fox was trying to do the Adult Swim thing. It even had Aubrey Plaza.
Sounds like Lucy, Daughter of the Devil to me.
What a good show that was.
a cartoon devil, constantly annoying his daughter Aubrey Plaza about how to raise his grandchild the Antichrist […] DeVito’s real-life daughter, Lucy DeVito, as the potential world-enderWait hold the phone, Lucy the GRANDdaughter of the Devil?
Yeah, this definitely should be a live action show