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DC Studios announces animated Mister Miracle, adapting Tom King and Mitch Gerads' award-winning comic - with King attached as showrunner
The series will be created in collaboration between DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation, but no network has been announced yet
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The story of Scott Free is about to come to our screens, with DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation partnering for an animated adaptation of Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ critically acclaimed Mister Miracle, with King attached as executive producer and showrunner.
Little information about the series was revealed in the official announcement; the show will be the second animated project from DC Studios aimed at an adult audience, following 2024’s Creature Commandos, the second season of which is currently in production. No network has been selected for Mister Miracle as of yet, and it’s unknown how many episodes the show will run. (The original comic book series went for 12 issues.)
The official description of the series, from Warner Bros. Animation, runs as follows:
“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.”
The 2017 Mister Miracle series was a critical hit, pushing the profile of both creators higher and winning a number of awards, including Best Writer and Best Penciller/Inker at the 2018 Will Eisner Comic Book Industry Awards. It has since been released in multiple collected editions.
The new series will be King's second executive producer project at DC Studios; he's serving the same role on the live-action Lanterns, which he co-created alongside Damon Lindelof and Chris Mundy.
The next DC Studios production to reach audiences will be Superman, in theaters July 11.
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