The third-season premiere of Rick and Morty was expected to arrive as early as 2016. However, Harmon admitted in a conversation with Indiewire that new episodes were becoming more difficult to create because of artistic disagreements with co-creator Justin Roiland.[4] Writing for "The Rickshank Rickdemption" commenced on November 2, 2015; a few months later in February 2016, episode director Juan Meza-Leon began work for the project's sound recording.[2] In February 2017, to celebrate the beginning of the episode's animation phase, Adult Swim Australia released a teaser trailer, later revealed to actually be a "RickRoll": a compilation of clips taken from seasons one and two that offered no new insight into the upcoming premiere.[5]