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Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.
And for its next trick, DC Studios is expanding its new cinematic universe with a series focused on Mister Miracle.
During its presentation at this year’s Annecy Film Festival, DC studios announced it is producing an adult animated Mister Miracle series that will be showrun and executive produced by comics writer Tom King. Based on King and Mitch Gerads’ 2017 Mister Miracle comics series, the new show will center famed escape artist Scott Free / Mister Miracle as he sets out to pull off his greatest stunt: escaping death itself.
Per the studio’s logline, things start to go “horribly wrong with the perfect life that Scott and his warrior wife Big Barda have built for themselves on Earth.” And as Gizmodo points out, the “thing” in question is actually a brutal war between the far off, hell-like planets Apokolips and New Genesis where Scott and Barda were raised to become vicious warriors.
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Mister Miracle is one of the many animated projects DC Studios has added to its roster as co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran reboot the company’s universe of films and series inspired by DC Comics. Last December, the studio renewed its Creature Commandos (HBO) Max show for a second season. And it’s currently working on a stop-motion film featuring two of Batman’s more notable Robins.
There’s no word yet on any casting details or when we might see the Mister Miracle show. But a Mister Miracle series actually makes quite a bit of sense for the studio right when you consider how largely the character Darkseid features in Scott’s lore, and the fact that there’s a live-action Superman film right around the corner. The larger DC Universe is going to need a big bad to justify bringing all of its characters together at some point down the line, and this might be how it all begins.
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