Crítica de El legado de Júpiter: no pierdas tu tiempo con esta serie gizmodo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gizmodo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Ultimates was mined in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not to mention
Logan being inspired by his
Old Man Logan miniseries.
With Marvel now corporately bonded to Disney+, and DC similarly linked to HBO Max, Netflix has been going after independent comics (
The UmbrellaAcademy, The Old Guard, Warrior Nun), and they have now done a deal with Millar to adapt his comics to the screen. This partnership kicks off with
Jupiter’s Legacy, and it is very much
not an auspicious start.
Jupiter’s Legacy herein!
Based on a series that Millar and Frank Quitely started in 2014,
Jupiter’s Legacy is a generational story about superheroes in a team called the Union, who debuted shortly after the stock market crash of 1929, and their various offspring in modern times. There was also a spinoff,
Jupiter s Legacy Creator Teases Plans For Season 2 wegotthiscovered.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wegotthiscovered.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
There was a moment in 2000’s
X-Men. You know the one. The moment where it was clear that the movie was a little bit different from its predecessors. All of the superhero movies previous had given us moments of pain, of loss, of formative angst writ large across the screen. They were effective, but they weren’t real in all those little ways that count.
But in
X-Men, Rogue sat in Wolverine’s beat up truck and looked at his knuckles where the signature adamantium claws released. “Does it hurt?” she asked. “When they come out?”
And he took a moment. And then he said: “Every time.”
Fri May 07, 2021 at 3:47pm ET
Andrew Horton as Brandon Sampson. Pic credit: Netflix
Mark Millar and Netflix struck a deal to bring adaptations of his comic books to the streaming service, and the first hit this weekend with Jupiter’s Legacy.
Netflix lost their deal with Marvel for streaming shows and have watched those move to Disney+ while DC Comics has its home on HBO Max. Mark Millar fills in the hole.
This is a big deal.
Sign up for our TV newsletter!
Mark Millar is the writer behind Marvel’s Civil War comic books and helped create the Ultimates, Marvel’s Ultimate Universe version of The Avengers, and the ones the movies were mostly based on. He also wrote Old Man Logan, which is what the movie Logan was based on.