Galaxy Razor (2023)

Galaxy Razor is an American animated television series developed and produced by Devyn Dean Martin and her father, Reuben Martin for Beta Cartoon. The series is based on the original Galaxy Razor series made by Sylas Blair and Armani Wilcox (which was an loose adaptation of various anime), and acts as a soft reboot. Both Blair and Wilcox act as Senior Executive Producers for the first season and oversaw some of the development of the story bible, but for the most part have been hands off for the project, as they continued to be retired from the entertainment business.

Development
From 2012 and 2019, there was three failed attempts at rebooting the Galaxy Razor franchise, of which the original characters, storylines, music, etc. was owned by Martin under the Cherry Vault LLC name.

2012 attempt
In 2012, then-licensor of Cherry Media content, Mill Creek Entertainment along with affiliate company Sony Pictures Animation approached Martin about rebooting the series as a film series, of which Martin decided not to follow through of rebooting the series then.

2015 attempt
In 2015, 20th Century Fox, TSG Entertainment and Nu Image approached Martin to develop a duology of films that would adapt the beginning storyline of the original show. Martin accepted, along with contacting husband/wife duo Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver to help develop the film series. The adapted storyline was given a script for the first film in mid 2017, but the story was not to Martin's liking, and decided that he would look to developing it as a animated television series.

2019 attempt
In 2019, Legendary Entertainment, Alcon Entertainment, and Rooster Teeth approached Reuben Martin about rebooting the series as an animated series, and it would have been produced for Rooster Teeth's online service and VRV. However, a few months later, the three backed out due to the pandemic.

2021 attempt
In the summer of 2021, Martin's daughter, Devyn Dean Martin, wanted to develop her own television series and wanted to do something based on a series that her dad worked on (it being the 2004 revival of Galaxy Razor, of which Devyn was a big fan), Reuben Martin decided to aid her in the development and decided to approached Beta Cartoon on developing a reboot of the series. After some negotiations and budget meetings, of which included Rooster Teeth Productions joining the series again as a co-producer and co-financer, Beta Cartoon and both Martins announced that a soft reboot of Galaxy Razor will be in development for a Spring 2023 release.

Production
Production officially started in August of 2021, with Devyn Dean Martin writing the initial story bible alongside her dad, Reuben Martin. Due to the complexity of the reboot already, Reuben decided to approach both Sylas Blair and Armani Wilcox to see if they can watch over development of the initial first season and help with story tidbits that may have been lost to time. Thankfully, Blair still had lots of unfinished drawings and notepads of mini story tidbits, and other Galaxy Razor-releated lore that he sent over to the production office, which was just the Martin's residence. Kade Herman joined production to help launch a new Cherry production studio, of which took over a Harmony Gold office in Los Angeles. Herman also helped write some episodes in the initial first season.