Just ahead of the series premiere of Jupiter’s Legacy, Mark Millar revealed a ton of details about additional Millarworld projects coming to Netflix.
Upcoming Millarworld/Netflix partnerships include heading back to work on The Magic Order and American Jesus, plus the anime adaptation of Super Crooks. Millar also announced plans for a six-episode live-action spy series, and a feature film Prodigy from Marvel’s The Eternals scribes Matthew and Ryan Firpo.
Millar gave updates on all these projects, but teased the yet unidentified spy series the most.
“The writer is someone I’ve been a massive fan of for two decades, and he was the only person I approached,” Millar said. “This has the potential to be one of the biggest franchises I’ve ever created. I’m so excited and I hope you will be too!”
That’s a big promise from someone who created the successful Kingsman franchise!
When Netflix purchased the rights to Millarworld back in 2017, the deal included plans to develop two series and three features. And though the pandemic put production on pause for a bit, it looks like now the Netflix/Millarworld plans are bigger than ever.
You can read the blog post from Millar exploring all his upcoming Netflix projects below:
Mark Millar On Jupiter’s Legacy
Here’s what Millar had to say about Jupiter’s Legacy:
This has to be the greatest superhero story of all time.
When I started work on Jupiter’s Legacy in 2012, this was the first line I wrote in my notepad – a high bar to set before coming up with a single line of dialogue.
After a decade of writing comic books, I knew I wanted to go out on my own and I knew I wanted to tell a different kind of superhero story. When I started working on Jupiter’s Legacy, my wife and I just had our second baby and family stories were suddenly more interesting to me. You don’t see many stories about superheroes with kids. I thought, “What would it be like if somebody as cool as Superman married somebody as amazing as Wonder Woman and they had kids?” That’s a fascinating dynamic, and it would be especially difficult for the children to live up to their parents’ expectations and legacies.
I was inspired and began writing scribbled scenes and Post-It notes for two full months, creating an entire universe of characters and how they all related to one another. My office looked like a scene from Zodiac, diagrams everywhere and arrows pointing to characters who might only appear briefly, but 30 years of backstory worked out in more intimate detail than I know some of my best friends.
When my wife, Lucy, and I sold Millarworld to Netflix in 2017, our first priority was Jupiter’s Legacy. We had flirted with the idea of a movie, but Netflix afforded us the chance to make this adaptation as big and deep as it needed to be, all those scribbled notes and Post-Its fully realised into a series that wouldn’t need to be condensed into a three-act film.
Although I’ve seen cut after cut, I’ve never once grown tired of watching what this dream cast and crew have assembled. I hope you love it as much as I do.
Mark Millar On Additional Netflix-Millarworld Projects
Millar also revealed details about the upcoming Millarworld-Netflix slate:
We’re hard at work on a six-episode live-action spy series right now, my first since Kingsman, but a very different kind of property. The writer is someone I’ve been a massive fan of for two decades, and he was the only person I approached. This has the potential to be one of the biggest franchises I’ve ever created. I’m so excited and I hope you will be too!
I’m also happy to share that The Magic Order is in active development after we had to postpone due to all the uncertainty last year. Some time away has given us a chance to come back with a completely fresh look at the material, and we should be getting into our new writers’ room very shortly. I created it to be a live-action series, but as comic fans know, I’m also passionate about doing books. I’m excited to report that we have “The Magic Order” volume 2 launching in October by the legendary Stuart Immonen and volume 3 immediately afterwards by the sensational European artist Gigi Cavenago.
The development for American Jesus is coming along beautifully in the talented and capable hands of Everardo Gout (Marvel’s Luke Cage, Sacred Lies) and Leopoldo Gout (Molly’s Game, Instinct). I’m blown away by the creative choices that Netflix has allowed us, and particularly since this series will feature Spanish and English dialogue.
We’re excited for the world to see the anime adaptation of Super Crooks later this year. This superpowered heist comic about eight super-villains is jam-packed with action and told in 13 30-minute episodes lushly produced by Bones.inc (My Hero Academia, Mob Psycho 100, Godzilla Singular Point). Fans will be able to catch the first glimpse of this highly anticipated series at the Annecy Festival this June.
On the film side, Reborn is currently being written by Bek Smith, who came out of the Marvel Writing Program. We’ve tapped Chris McKay (The Lego Batman Movie) to direct and Sandra Bullock will produce along with Vertigo Entertainment. Empress, Huck, and Sharkey The Bounty Hunter continue to move forward with all three features in various stages of development. And we have also added Prodigy to the slate with a phenomenal script by Matthew and Ryan Firpo (Marvel’s The Eternals).
What’s next?
While most of the projects Millar discussed are still in the development phase, you can catch Jupiter’s Legacy soon. The series premieres on Netflix May 7.
You can read Millar’s blog in full here.
So, what Millarworld project has you the most excited? Let us know in the comments what you’re looking forward to.
Source: Netflix/Mark Millar
