james Millarworld Shows Available on Netflix
The project that released first is Jupiter’s Legacy and dropped onto Netflix on May 7th, 2021.
Among the cast for Jupiter’s Legacy is Anna Akana, Jess Salgueiro, Humberly González, Tyler Mane, Kara Royster, and a huge roster of other stars.
Here is the Netflix description for the series:
The series notably lost its showrunner midway in production with Steven DeKnight pulling out back in September 2019.
Season 2 won’t be moving forward at Netflix. Although the PR release was strangely worded, it’s likely the show didn’t perform to expectations but did hint that we’ll see future projects that feature cast members.
Super Crooks
Released on Netflix: November 25th, 20211
The first anime series within the Millarverse dropped in November and comes from Studio Bones who are notably behind Full Metal Alchemist and Mob Psycho 100.
Here’s the official description:
Millarworld Netflix Shows & Movies In Development
American Jesus
Production Status: In Development
Dubbed as an action-comedy this perhaps controversial TV series will be spoken in both English and Spanish, not dissimilar to how Netflix’s Narcos works.
The comic series (which recently saw its second entry release) is about Jesus Christ returning to Earth battling with the Antichrist to help save humanity.
So far, no cast announcements have been made for American Jesus.
Everardo Gout (Marvel’s Luke Cage, Sacred Lies) and Leopoldo Gout (Molly’s Game, Instinct) helm the project.
Prodigy
Production Status: In Development
Prodigy will be the first major Millarworld movie out of Netflix according to Millar in early 2022. Not too much is known about the project beyond from its rather limited IMDb page.
The description of the project is as follows:
In May 2021, Matthew and Ryan Firpo were confirmed to be writing the movie who both worked on Marvel’s The Eternals.
Super Crooks
Production Status: In Development
Yep, one of the shortest comics in the entire Millarworld catalog is getting an anime and live-action series.
Announced alongside the cancelation of Jupiter’s Legacy, a live-action project was announced. How the story will be different to the anime is yet to be seen.
Millar said regarding the live-action series:
The Magic Order
Production Status: Back in development after a pause in 2020
This comic series comes from Lindsey Beer, Olivier Coipel, and Mark Millar and is about five different families that all possess magical abilities to rid the world of dangerous threats. It’ll be Netflix’s equivalent of Harry Potter.
James Wan who is known for The Conjuring 2 was attached as one of the directors.
The Magic Order has the potential to be the biggest and most important Millarworld title on the way. That’s partly because Mark Millar has teased they have the ability to connect different realms that could mean crossovers in the future.
Filming was set to get underway as soon as filming continues after COVID-19 disrupted most productions.
However, in October 2020, Netflix announced it would not be moving forward with the project due to numerous factors. It didn’t rule out revisiting it in the future and in May 2021, Millar confirmed the series was back in development saying “we should be getting into our new writers’ room very shortly”.
In early 2022, Millar updated everyone on the project saying:
Untitled Spy Series
Production Status: In Development
One of Millar’s best-known properties is Kingsman and he’ll be returning to a similar formula with the release of a brand new six-episode live-action spy series at some point with Millar saying “This has the potential to be one of the biggest franchises I’ve ever created.”
Reborn
Production Status: In Development
One of our personal favorite titles in the Millarworld library is Reborn.
The movie has been in the script phase for a while with Millar giving the series a nod back in May 2021 with the news that Bek Smith, who rose up through the Marvel Writing Program, would be helming the project.
IMDb also lists Chris McKay (known for The Tomorrow War) as the director of the film.
Sharkey The Bounty Hunter
Production Status: In Development
Currently, Michael Bacall is attached to the project as one of the producers and writers. He’s most known for his work on Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds as well as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and 21 Jump Street.
Sharkey is an intergalactic bounty hunter that travels across the galaxy in his rocket-powered ice-cream truck capturing criminals for their big score. Aided by his 10-year old partner, Sharkey is out to get the biggest bounty of his career.
The comic book was first teased by Netflix back in November 2018 with the first comic arriving 2019.
Huck
Production Status: In Development
Theodore Melfi who is behind Hidden Figures and El Camino Christmas is behind this movie project that’s currently in the early stages of development still.
A quiet seaside town has an incredible secret, that resident Huck has amazing and special gifts. Huck uses his gifts to do a good deed each day, in exchange for the townsfolk keeping the secret. But when a new resident moves into the town and tells the media of Hucks abilities, Huck has no choice but to flee the seaside town and set off an adventure that will change him and everything forever.
The last update on the screenplay was in May 2020.
Empress
Production Status: In Development
Empress is another movie that was announced as part of the original Millarworld lineup.
Lindsey Beer is on board to write the screenplay. Her previous credits include Sierra Burgess is a Loser for Netflix and will also be involved in the aforementioned The Magic Order series.
The wife of an intergalactic dictator decides to take her three children away from his evil clutches and escape to her homeworld. Her husband won’t allow her to get away that easily and utilizes his power as Emporer and sends his forces to hunt her down and bring her back. The planet the Empress is the very same Earth that we are from, except this story takes place 65 Million years ago.
We haven’t had any major updates on the movie since September 2018 when Mark Millar took to Twitter to sing Lindsey’s praises.
Night Club
Production Status: In Development
One of the new comics Millar has developed since the Netflix acquisition is Night Club which is a vampire superhero comic that will first be written as a six-issue miniseries (set to release in 2022) before eventually getting adapted into a TV series.
Here’s what Night Club entails:
Production Status: Unknown
Space Bandits was one of the projects listed as in development on Mark Millar’s IMDb profile but is no longer there.
Here’s what Space Bandits is about:
