It’s official. DC Studios’ co-chair James Gunn confirmed that the upcoming animated series, Mister Miracle, which will introduce Scott Free and the mythology of The New Gods, will be set within the shared narrative of the all-new DCU.
The animated adventure was written by Tom King as an adaptation of his own award-winning 12-issue Mister Miracle comic book and seemed to have quickly come together under the radar. In September, Nexus Point News reported that casting for the project was underway and that it was indeed set to include Jack Kirby’s Fourth World characters such as Funky Flashman, Highfather, Lightray and Orion and, most interestingly, the tyrannical ruler of Apokolips, Darkseid.
Since then, the series hasn’t often been in the headlines but an update from King has changed that. In a new interview, King revealed that episodes of the series are already being edited and that the studio has already cast actors in many key roles.
“It is a DCU show. That has huge implications for our show and the DCU at large, obviously,” said King, quoting Gunn’s revelation that Mister Miracle was set within the new continuity.
“The big announcement like who the cast and where everything that hasn’t come yet and it’s going to come and I can’t wait to do it,” King revealed. “We got to cast Darkseid. We got to cast Orion. Obviously Scott and Barda were the big ones.”
The “huge implications” King mentioned might include the possibility that the yet-to-be-revealed voice talent cast in the aforementioned roles will also portray the characters in live-action. Gunn has stated that in most cases, the voice actors behind animated characters will also play the live-action versions of the characters, as was the case with Frank Grillo, who played Rick Flag Sr in Creature Commandos, Superman and Peacemaker Season 2. Should that be the case with Mister Miracle, it would mean that an actor has been the Justice League’s greatest villain and that Darkseid is…
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