Logan. So when Netflix bought Millarworld for somewhere between $40 and $50 million, according to
The Hollywood Reporter, it was a big deal and one that only has Disney buying Marvel in 2009 and Warner Bros. buying DC in 1969 as precedent. It took four years to see what that deal would actually yield for Netflix, but the first piece of that puzzle is
Jupiter s Legacy, a superhero series starring Josh Duhamel and based on a comic series that Millar wrote himself starting in 2013.
Millarworld will have plenty more projects make their way onto Netflix s crowded catalogue, but its this first one that should be able to build a bit of steady buzz. The first season tells a superhero story that feels a bit different from what we re accustomed to with the Marvel or D.C. worlds; the biggest difference? We don t know these characters from decades and decades of canon and influence. And that s what allows for some of the biggest twists and turns of the show s first eight-episode season.
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Jupiter s Legacy marks comic book creator Mark Millar s first adaptation through his mega-deal with the streaming service - the Big Bang of the Millarverse, if you will. The big-budget drama flips between two different timelines, one focusing on the familial superhero team The Union in the present day, and one set in the past that tells the story of how those heroes (and eventual villains) came into being.
Star Wars voice actor Matt Lanter, who winningly brought
The Clone Wars Anakin Skywalker to life, features heavily in the 1930s timeline as George Hutchence, the charismatic BFF to Josh Duhamel s Sheldon Sampson. He s mysteriously absent from most of the modern storyline, however.
Ben Daniels and Matt Lanter also open up about a few deleted scenes, the Walter-George rivalry, and more.
He was, ostensibly, also the one behind the latest threat: the release of a clone of the villain Blackstar (Tyler Mane) and that vision of a threat again Sheldon and his son Brandon/Paragon (Andrew Horton). A twist in the finale revealed itâs really Sheldonâs brother, Walter/Brainwave (Ben Daniels), whoâs the mastermind of the present-day madness. So the George that Walter and Grace/Lady Liberty (Leslie Bibb) fought in the mind of the (dead) Blackstar clone? Just a construct of Walterâs mind.
Jupiter s Legacy: Matt Lanter Teases More Clone Wars Anakin to Come
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Hayden Christensen s live-action return to the padawan murder in the
Obi-Wan Kenobi series, coming from Disney +. Meanwhile, on the other side of the galaxy, animated Anakin teases that we might be able to hear him sooner than we think. Promoting Netflix s new epic episodic superhero drama
Jupiter s Legacy,
Timeless, Clone Wars) lips got loose.
As originally reported on EW.com, he has secretly been working for Lucasfilm Animation since the series finale of
Clone Wars. There s some new Lucasfilm Animation going on. I ve been a part of some things I can t talk about yet. You ll see Anakin again, Lanter promises. I never quite put Anakin down, whether I m doing a video game or something new for Lucasfilm Animation.
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