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"Jupiter's Legacy," Netflix's first Millarworld series since buying the comic company in 2017, debuts Friday.
Millarworld's president Mark Millar talked with Insider about the Netflix deal and the series.
"Jupiter's Legacy" is part of Netflix's grander ambitions to develop franchises and event shows.
Comics writer Mark Millar is known for some of Marvel's most talked-about stories of the 2000s. But he credits a 2003 conversation with Stan Lee, the cocreator of some of Marvel's biggest characters like Spider-Man and the X-Men, with inspiring his trek away from Marvel and into a comics universe of his own.
"Growing up I always wanted to work at Marvel and DC," Millar told Insider during a phone interview last week. "But Stan said that every generation needs new characters."