Netflix Superhero Show Jupiter’s Legacy Has a Huge Cast, Massive Explosions

Its hardly news that superhero stories are big business these days with Marvel and DC movies alike regularly passing the $1 billion mark. Those mega-sized super tales are usually reserved for the cinema, but Jupiter’s Legacy from Mark Millar and Netflix hopes to be the exception, according to a new interview with Millar by Empire.

“It’s part 2001, part Avengers, part Godfather II,” said creator Mark Millar in a new interview with Empire. Millar is one of the most-adapted comic creators out there, with original stories like Kick-Ass, Wanted, and Kingsman having made it to the big screen. Millar also wrote Marvel’s Civil War comic series, which became one of the biggest Marvel films. Then, he cut a deal with Netflix to bring his work to the streaming service a few years back. Jupiter’s Legacy will be the first project to make the leap to live-action.

Empire described Jupiter’s Legacy as “a sprawling superhero epic with an almost limitless ambition,” and Millar says the story is a “50-year story self-contained inside one franchise,” and that it has a cast of “50 or 60 super-characters,” which seems almost incomprehensible. The show stars Josh Duhamel (Transformers) as Sheldon Sampson/The Utopian. Other cast members include Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Kara Royster, and Matt Lanter.

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