Right on the brink of all the Comic-Con announcements that we’re bound to get this weekend, Netflix is trying to get ahead of it all by announcing their first slate of Mark Millar properties.
Around this time last year, Netflix made the announcement that they had purchased the Kick-Ass and Kingsman author’s entire catalog.
Now, we finally see what the streaming service intends to do with all these properties.
Jupiter’s Legacy and American Jesus will both be Netflix original television series, while Empress, Huck and Sharkey The Bounty Hunter will all be turned into features.
Jupiter’s Legacy, which will have eight episodes in its first season, follows the world’s first generation of superheroes who are struggling to adapt to modern times — so, more or less, it’s Watchmen. Steven S. DeKnight, who also created Daredevil for Netflix, will serve as the showrunner.
American Jesus, coming in at six episodes, is about a 12-year-old boy who, after performing a few miracles, realizes that he is actually the reincarnated Jesus Christ — meaning this has potential to reach Preacher-level of weirdness. Everardo and Leopoldo Gout, who helped bring Luke Cage to Netflix, will be showrunners.
Empress — which is the title that has the internet talking the most — is about a queen who is married to the worst imaginable dictator in the entire galaxy. After deciding she can no longer put up with him, the empress takes her child and tries to escape his sinister wrath.
Sharkey The Bounty Hunter easily wins the title for the weirdest name, but it’s the one that actually has the most excited. The comic is about an ice-cream truck driving bounty hunter who tracks down criminals across the entire galaxy.
Rounding it all off, Huck is about a young man with some special gifts living in a quiet seaside town, only to be unwillingly thrust into the limelight.
We don’t have any release dates for these projects yet, but they all look pretty exciting. Given that the streaming world is about to get a lot more competitive in the next couple of years — as quite literally every major company is planning on launching their own platform and original content — it’s names like Mark Millar’s that are going to keep Netflix in the forefront.
What do you think of this news? Which Mark Millar project are you most excited to see, and what would you like to see them do next? A Kingsman television series, perhaps? Let us know in the comments below!
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