Family Guy Taps Sam Elliot to Succeed Adam West as Quahogs Mayor

Family Guy Taps Sam Elliot to Succeed Adam West as Quahog’s Mayor

Family Guy executive producers confirm that Sam Elliott will join the cast of Family Guy as the town’s new mayor.

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Family Guy Taps Sam Elliot to Succeed Adam West as Quahogs Mayor

In 2017, the world lost Adam West, the actor most famous for portraying Batman in the 60s TV show. However, West had another big credit to his name –voicing Quahog’s mayor, Adam West. Now, Family Guy has found their new mayor in Sam Elliott.

The show finally acknowledged Adam West’s passing recently, creating an episode where the James Woods high school was renamed to Adam West High School. The show’s executive producer Richard Appel told EW, “We wanted to take the time to respect Adam.” He continued, “In having a conversation about ‘How do you replace him?’ the universal belief was: he’s irreplaceable. And then the next question is, ‘Do you find a new mayor?’ In the world of Family Guy, he had an important role and a role that was necessary for a lot of stories.”

Appel said his fellow producers were challenged with the task of finding someone who could truly fit the part they imagined. He said, “Who could be as original and unexpected and comedically fun and fresh as Adam? Sam has a voice that — obviously he’s a movie star but he also has a voice made for the radio, and Sam Elliot quickly became our first choice.”

EW provided a first look at Sam’s character on the show, which can be seen below.

Family Guy Taps Sam Elliot to Succeed Adam West as Quahogs Mayor

Famous for his baritone voice, Elliot won an Oscar for his work on A Star is Born recently. Elliot’s character on the show will be aptly named “Wild Wild West.” The character comes to Quahog at the request of Peter Griffin, who is displeased with the candidates and wants a celebrity to run instead. Wild Wild West is also Adam West’s cousin in the show.

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According to executive producer Alec Sulkin, the original pitch was for the actor to play Sam Elliott, similar to how Adam West simply played a caricature of himself on the show. After that pitch, Elliott initially replied saying no. Sulkin said, Elliott “was reluctant,” adding, “He just felt like he didn’t want to play himself. Which made us go back thinking, ‘Well, all right, is there someone else?’ And we thought, ‘Wait a minute, that note is a smart note. Because that was more what Adam West was doing. And the new mayor shouldn’t be another real-world celebrity playing himself within our fictional world. So we kicked around a bunch of ideas and then said, ‘What if we refashion this as Wild West for Sam Elliott and create this new character?’ And he responded very well to that idea.”

Family Guy Season 19 will air on Fox on Sept. 27.

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