Digman!is an upcoming animated series created byAdam Sambergand Neil Campbell. The series is about a celebrity archaeologist named Rip Digman who will travel across the world to explore dangerous places with his team of experts. The twoDigman!creators shared the inspiration of the series during their interview withCollider.
Samberg explains why the show stars archaeologists and the series co-creator admitted that iconic characterIndiana Joneshad something to do with it. He explained,
“We were talking about how much we love the archeologist-adventure genre, your Indiana Jones, your National Treasure, et cetera, and the sort of cinema-fication of the old serialized adventure stories basically. And then started laughing about how we were kind of fed this steady diet in our youth of archeologists being swashbuckling adventurers and how it would be so funny to see a world where that was actually the case, as opposed to just something you’re told once every few years when an Indiana Jones movie comes out, basically.”
Campbell further added that in general, the series was created based on the cartoons that the two of them grew up watching and those that have similar theme, he said,
“Just anything from when we were kids, like Indiana Jones, like The Goonies. I mean, things beyond when we were kids, too, but that sort of has that feel. I’ve said this before, but Legend of Zelda is this way, too, where there’s a whole world out there to explore, and it’s full of mysteries and secrets and hidden temples, and stuff like that.”
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Campbell went on to share that the series was based on the topics that they were looking to explore when they were both young. The series was heavily influenced by the things that fascinated them. Campbell shared,
“And you get older, and you go like, “Oh no, it’s not quite like that,” or whatever. But that wonder that you have when you played those things, or when you watched those things as a kid, is just a world we wanted to set it in where you’re like, “No, that is the case in this world.” It’s filled with curses and enchanted objects and hidden temples and secrets and mysteries, and that just felt like a world that felt like a lot of fun to explore and to put a bunch of insane, unhinged characters like Rip into.”
