Rooster Teeth, the net media model well-known for reveals like Crimson vs. Blue, RWBY, and numerous podcasts, is back–with authentic co-founder Burnie Burns on the helm.
In a press release, Burns introduced his unbiased manufacturing firm Field Canyon Productions has acquired the Rooster Teeth model and “a lot of its remaining belongings.” Burns left Rooster Teeth in 2020 and moved to Scotland together with his household, however based Field Canyon in 2023. The firm is most well-known for its “Morning Someplace” podcast. Burns directed these focused on studying extra about Rooster Teeth’s revival to take a look at the February 5 episode of the “Morning Someplace” podcast.
“I’m excited on the problem of bringing Rooster Teeth again to its roots,” Burns mentioned in a press launch. “The coronary heart of this model has all the time been its followers, and I sit up for writing a brand new chapter collectively.”
Upon its creation again in 2003, Rooster Teeth solidified itself as an early-internet juggernaut and pioneer in on-line video content material and podcasts. The model was acquired by Warner Bros. as a part of its acquisition of AT&T and Discovery in 2022. Two years later in March 2024, Warner Bros. Discovery opted to close Rooster Teeth down after the corporate had remained unprofitable in recent times. Greater than 150 full-time workers, and quite a few contractors and content material creators who labored with the corporate part-time, had been affected.
Warner Bros. Discovery was mentioned to be in talks to sell-off Rooster Teeth’s hottest properties, together with Crimson vs. Blue. The long-running sequence, which used in-game fashions, animations, maps, and the overall multiplayer setting of FPS sequence Halo to inform its story, ran regularly from the corporate’s founding till the discharge of the feature-length movie Crimson vs. Blue: Restoration (initially meant to be the present’s nineteenth season) in 2024. It is presently unclear if Burns has re-acquired the rights to Crimson vs. Blue or Rooster Teeth’s different hottest reveals.
Although Rooster Teeth somewhat controversially rebranded in 2023 with a brand new emblem and tagline to rejoice its twentieth anniversary, it seems like Burns is opting to make use of the model’s authentic chattering tooth and rooster emblem, maybe an indication he’s seeking to return to the corporate’s roots.
“There’s lots of work to do round right here earlier than our re-launch,” Burns mentioned in an announcement on the now under-construction Rooster Teeth web site. “In the meantime, I hope that you’ll be a part of me in welcoming again a model that has been so necessary to so many individuals for thus a few years.”