Red vs Blue | |
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Genre |
Military science fiction Action/Adventure Comedy-drama Political thriller |
Created by | Burnie Burns |
Written by | Burnie Burns (1-10) Matt Hullum (2-4; 10; 14) Monty Oum (10) Miles Luna (10-14) Joe Nicolosi (14-present) Jason Weight (16-present) |
Directed by | Burnie Burns (1-10) Matt Hullum (2-4; 6; 8-10; 14) Gavin Free (7) Monty Oum (10) Miles Luna (10-14) Joe Nicolosi (14-present) |
Voices of | Jason Saldaña Joel Heyman Shannon McCormick Jen Brown Matt Hullum Geoff Ramsey Gus Sorola Dan Godwin Burnie Burns |
Theme music composer | Trocadero |
Opening theme |
"Blood Gulch Blues" (1–5) "(When) Your Middle Name is Danger" (6-8) "Contact" (11-13) |
Composer(s) | Trocadero David Levy (13-present) Jeff Williams (8-10) |
No. of seasons | 15 |
No. of episodes | 303 + 22 from miniseries (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Matt Hullum Burnie Burns |
Producer(s) | Koen Wooten (13-present) |
Running time | 7 minutes average per episode |
Production company(s) | Rooster Teeth Productions |
Release | |
Original network | Rooster Teeth |
Original release | April 1, 2003 | – present
External links | |
Website |
Red vs. Blue (stylized as redvsblue), often abbreviated as RvB, is an American comic science fiction web television series created by Burnie Burns with his production company Rooster Teeth. The show is distributed through Rooster Teeth's website, as well as on DVD, Blu-ray, and more recently syndicated on the El Rey Network, Netflix and its own YouTube channel. The series initially centers on two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of Blood Gulch, a desolate box canyon, in a parody of first-person shooter video games, military life, and science fiction films. Initially intended to be a short series of six to eight episodes, the project quickly and unexpectedly achieved significant popularity following its premiere on April 1, 2003. The series consists of fifteen seasons and five mini-series. Red vs. Blue is the longest running episodic web series and second longest running web series of all time, behind Homestar Runner.
Red vs. Blue emerged from Burnie Burns' voice-over-enhanced gameplay videos of Bungie Studios' FPS video game Halo: Combat Evolved. The series is primarily produced using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from a game to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio. Footage is mostly from the multiplayer modes of Halo: Combat Evolved and its followups on the Xbox consoles.