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Big news for fans of Jack Kirby’s New Gods: DC Studios has announced plans at Annecy for an adult animated series, based on the lauded comic book series Mister Miracle by Tom King and Mitch Gerads.
Per Warner Bros. Animation, the series will be executive produced by King, who is part of the brain-trust established by James Gunn to help flesh out the plot of the new DCU. That, so far, includes Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, based on the comic book series by Tom King and Bilquis Evely; and Lanterns, a Green Lantern show currently in production for HBO, for which King is a co-showrunner.
Mister Miracle expands that relationship with King, as well as increasing the animated output from DC Studios. Currently, they’re working on Season 2 of Creature Commandos for HBO Max, and have greenlit Starfire!, My Adventures with Green Lantern (a spinoff of My Adventures with Superman), and DC Super Powers. The previously announced plan is to release two animated seasons per year.
In 2017, DC Comics released Mister Miracle by King and Gerads, a 12-issue series that redefined the character created by Kirby for a new generation, alongside his wife, Big Barda. The book won the Eisner Award in 2019 and has gone on to be a perennial bestseller for DC Comics.
Other than King, no additional creatives have been announced for the series, and a release platform also hasn’t been revealed — though HBO Max would certainly be a smart guess.
Here’s the official logline and synopsis for the animated series:
Description: No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensation known as Mister Miracle, and he is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. But can he pull off the ultimate trick — and escape death itself?
Something has gone horribly wrong with the perfect life that Scott and his warrior wife Big Barda have built for themselves on Earth. With war raging between their home worlds of Apocalypse and New Genesis, Scott’s cruel adoptive father Darkseid seems to have finally captured the Anti-Life Equation — the ultimate weapon that will give Darkseid total dominance over the universe.
As the mountains of bodies on both sides grow ever higher, only Mister Miracle can stop the slaughter and restore peace. But the terrible power of the Anti-Life Equation may already be at work in his own mind, warping his reality, exposing his long-buried pain, and shattering the fragile happiness he’s found with the woman he loves.
And so begins the odyssey of Scott Free, Mister Miracle: a harrowing, hilarious, heart wrenching journey across the pitfalls of the ordinary and extraordinary as the son of God raised by the devil tries to save his family, his world, and maybe even himself.
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