Today, the Millarworld take on inner turmoil superhero stories, Jupiter’s Legacy is available to stream on Netflix. The comics co-created by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely tell a passing of the torch story about the world’s first group of superheroes looking to their children to protect the planet and the struggles their progeny go through with legacy. Millar shared with Netflix the inspirations behind the series.
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.
In addition, Millar also updated fans on more upcoming media based on his comics.
-Millar is working on a new six-episode live action spy series. His first since Kingsmen.
–The Magic Order live action is in active development after having to postpone due to all the uncertainty last year. A new volume of the series is set for October in comic shops and drawn by Stuart Immonen with volume 3 to follow drawn by Gigi Cavenago.
–American Jesus is in pre production and will be his first series with Spanish and English dialogue. The project is led by Everardo Gout (Marvel’s Luke Cage, Sacred Lies) and Leopoldo Gout (Molly’s Game, Instinct).
–Super Crooks will be 13- 30 minute animated episodes and debut later this year.
-On the film side, Reborn is currently being written by Bek Smith, who came out of the Marvel Writing Program. Chris McKay (The Lego Batman Movie) tapped 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. Prodigy gets added to the slate with a script by Matthew and Ryan Firpo (Marvel’s The Eternals
-No word on whatever became of his Batman gone mad violent action story Nemesis.
