The team wasn’t just thinking visually about Black culture and families either

 The team wasn’t just thinking visually about Black culture and families either

While space onscreen has largely been a white frontier, part of bringing a Black family to space in a meaningful way meant things recognizable to Black people would be tucked among the planets and stardust.

“In the first season, they’re going to an intergalactic Wingstop. We’re having fun with that. No, we don’t want to do a cantina. We want to do a Wingstop,” Downing Jr. Explains. “What we really wanted to do and were really big on is flipping conventions and reframing things.”

‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’ Celebrates the Brown and Black Communities of New York City

For Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, executive producer Steve Loter (Kim Possible, Rocket Power) and supervising producer Rodney Clouden (The Wild Thornberrys, Futurama) say they have EPs Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland to thank for helping them adapt the story of Lunella Lafayette, a 13-year-old super-genius (voiced by Diamond White), who protects New York City with the help of a ten-ton red T-Rex she accidentally spawned from a time portal. “They’ve been forging a path for a while with shows like Black-ish and Grown-ish,” Loter tells THR.