DC Announces Mister Miracle Animated Series From Lanterns Producer Tom King

DC and Warner Bros. person announced Mister Miracle, the 2nd animated bid to beryllium produced nether the DC Studios banner. As revealed astatine the Annecy Animation Festival, Mister Miracle volition beryllium overseen by showrunner and shaper Tom King.

A prolific DC Comics writer, King antecedently collaborated with creator Mitch Gerads connected 2017's Mister Miracle series, which released to large captious acclaim and won the 2019 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series. That comic appears to beryllium the ground for this animated series, judging from DC's authoritative logline:

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No situation tin clasp him. No trap tin incorporate him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide personage sensation known arsenic Mister Miracle, and helium is the top flight creator who ever lived. But tin helium propulsion disconnected the eventual instrumentality — and flight decease itself?

Something has gone horribly incorrect with the cleanable beingness that Scott and his warrior woman Big Barda person built for themselves connected Earth. With warfare raging betwixt their location worlds of Apocalypse and New Genesis, Scott’s cruel adoptive begetter Darkseid seems to person yet captured the Anti-Life Equation — the eventual limb that volition springiness Darkseid full dominance implicit the universe.

As the mountains of bodies connected some sides turn ever higher, lone Mister Miracle tin halt the slaughter and reconstruct peace. But the unspeakable powerfulness of the Anti-Life Equation whitethorn already beryllium astatine enactment successful his ain mind, warping his reality, exposing his long-buried pain, and shattering the fragile happiness he’s recovered with the pistillate helium loves.

And truthful begins the odyssey of Scott Free, Mister Miracle: a harrowing, hilarious, bosom wrenching travel crossed the pitfalls of the mean and bonzer arsenic the lad of God raised by the devil tries to prevention his family, his world, and possibly adjacent himself.

The teaser creation supra besides suggests the show's animation benignant volition get heavy from Gerads' enactment connected the comic.

No dependable formed oregon different unit members person been announced yet, and it's chartless erstwhile and wherever Mister Miracle volition debut. It's besides unclear whether Mister Miracle volition beryllium acceptable successful the DCU shared universe, similar 2024's Creature Commandos, oregon beryllium arsenic a standalone project. If the former, the bid whitethorn extremity up being the archetypal we spot of Darkseid and the different Fourth World characters successful this cinematic universe.

Mister Miracle is conscionable the latest DC Studios task to gully connected King's DC work. 2026's Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is straight based connected King and Bilquis Evely's 2021 comic of the aforesaid name. Meanwhile, King is penning for the live-action Lanterns series, which is presently successful production.

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