Though Season 5 does not yet have a release date, Rick and Morty writer Alex Rubens offered a promising update on the show's seventh season, albeit a vague one.Rubens, who serves as a writer and co-producer on the Adult Swim cartoon, shared this update on Twitter, revealing that writing for Season 7 has officially begun. "Am I allowed to say we started writing Rick and Morty Season 7? (If not we didn't and I'm not)," Rubens said.RELATED: Adult Swim Is Making Rick and Morty's Butter-Passing Robot a Real Product

Rick and Morty Season 4 is currently streaming, but the writers have been three seasons ahead for some time now. Earlier last year, Adult Swim ordered 70 more episodes from co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, with Harmon hinting that they had already started work on Season 7. "I think we're working on Season 7 right now, I can't even keep track," Harmon said during a panel at the Adult Swim Festival. "I wouldn't know if I were spoiling Season 5 or Season 6."

At PaleyFest in Oct. 2020, Harmon explained that the show was "more on schedule than [it's] ever been," admitting that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been helpful in increasing the show's production rate due to the lack of an "office environment" hindering the team's focus. "Everyone has to run this bee colony remotely, so the honey just gets made more consistently," he said. "It's working for us."

Seasons 1-4 of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty are available to stream on Hulu and HBO Max. A premiere date for Season 5 has yet to be confirmed.

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