Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios Announce Adult-Aimed 'Mister Miracle' Series
Tom King is bringing one of his comic runs to animation…somewhere to be announced
We’ve said hell yeah to Kite Man, so DC Studios has announced it’s time to follow another less-utilized character in the roster of DC Comics. The studio and Warner Bros. Animation announced during their adult animation showcase at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival that they have greenlit and are currently in production on Mister Miracle, an adult animated series based on the 12-issue Eisner Award-winning comic from writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads. A platform destination has not been confirmed.
The series is about Scott Free, the world’s greatest escape artist, known to them as the celebrity Mister Miracle. He is the son of Highfather, the ruler of New Genesis, and his wife, Avia. To stop a war with the planet Apokolips, Highfather gave him up to Darkseid, the planet’s ruler, in exchange for his second-born son Orion. He grows up in one of Granny Goodness' orphanages without knowledge of his heritage. He assumes the mantle of Mister Miracle after the murder of escape artist Thaddeus Brown, the original holder. All in all, the iteration this series sets up has had a pretty perfect life with his warrior wife Big Barda. However, it falls apart falls apart when war has still managed to erupt back up between both planets, because Darkseid appears to have finally gotten his hands on the long-pursued Anti-Life Equation, his ultimate weapon that will give him total universal control. While only Mister Miracle can stop the slaughter and restore peace, the terrible power of the Anti-Life Equation seems to be messing with his mind, warping his reality, unraveling his marriage and reawakening his traumas. The boilerplate for this Mister Miracle series describes it as 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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King’s place in the new direction of DC adaptations is already quite vast. Having been in co-CEO James Gunn’s braintrust in forming such direction, he is a co-showrunner on the Green Lantern series Lanterns which will air on HBO and star Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler, and his Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow book is the basis for the second DC Universe film, simply titled Supergirl, starring Milly Alcock. The series seems unconnected from the new DC Universe, but that’s okay, because you’re more likely to get an “Elseworld”/standalone series than one that’s actually DCU. Back in February, the first DC Studios-conceived standalone animated series were announced, My Adventures with Green Lantern, Starfire, and DC Super Powers.
Scott Free is not the last to bear the name Mister Miracle, but he is the only one to be adapted into television, and the closest the character has gotten to film was Ava DuVernay’s New Gods film. A main universe incarnation couldn’t even appear in any of the numerous direct-to-video DC animated films. His main appearance in Justice League Unlimited was “The Ties That Bind”, voiced by Ioan Gruffudd as an adult and Zack Shada as a child. On Batman: The Brave and the Bold he’s voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. In the Justice League Action episode "It'll Take a Miracle!", he’s voiced by Roger Craig Smith, and he cameos in the Harley Quinn episode "Inner (Para) Demons", where he’s voiced by Andy Daly. A first look can be seen below. Purportedly the trades made their reports before the panel, which was said to have more info…but either it didn’t have more or it wasn’t reported back.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter