Mark Millar Archives

Nearly six months after Jupiter's Legacy writer Mark Millar took to Twitter to announce that filming on the 8 episodes of Netflix's adaptation of his and artist Frank Quitely's comic book series was finished, we've been wondering what's been going on Granted, the COVID-19 pandemic flipped around productions all across the television landscape, but with[...]

Image Comics/Millarworld have been publishing a number of Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl series on late, based on Mark Millar and John Romita 's Marvel comic book, adapted into to movies and just waiting for the rights to revert to Netflix so that Mark Millar can start writing them again But in June, under a John Romita[...]

Warner Bros and DC are to host the New York premiere screening of Superman: Red Son, based on the comic by Mark Millar and Dave Johnson, at 7pm, March 16th at the Directors Guild of America The film tells the story of a Superman who landed twelve hours later that originally planned, making Russia his[...]

And also, Marvel is also celebrating Marvel Zombies with an issue of Marvel Tales. Marvel Tales: The Original Marvel Zombies #1 will reprint the story by Mark Millar and Greg Land from Ultimate Fantastic Four #21-23 as well as Marvel Zombies #1 (2005) by Robert Kirkman and Sean Phillips That's right, once upon a time, Scottish[...]

DeKnight (Marvel's Daredevil) left the series ("creative differences") and Sang Kyu Kim (The Walking Dead) joined, fans of the streaming service's upcoming series adaptation of writer Mark Millar and artist Frank Quitely's comic book series Jupiter's Legacy are in for some good news. Taking to Twitter on Thursday, Millar tweeted an image of himself and his[...]

Mark Millar (#34 on the power list), has entertaining politics He publically backed and promoted Scottish politician Alex Salmond and the Scottish National Party in 2011, appeared in their party political broadcasts, and was publically thanked by Salmond when the SNP won almost all Scottish seats in the General Election. Salmond went on to appear with Millar at a[...]

We mentioned Mark Millar's comments about DC Comics abandoning Superman's secret identity on John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast But he had a few things to say about Netflix, Martin Scorsese and superhero movies too How much you can actually believe, well, that's down to you. He talked about how whenever studios approached Millarworld about licensing a[...]

Jupiter's Legacy by Mark Millar, Frank Quitely and Peter Doherty began as Jupiter's Children, until a trademark fight saw them rename the book Jupiter's Legacy, and the book published by Image Comics in 2013. The comic began looking at the generational conflict between a group of ageing superheroes known as the Union, who used the powers they[...]

Mark Millar popped by John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast before Christmas to talk about his work for Netflix, what led up to it and the state of comic books today, and over the past few decades Siuntres also asked him about the news of Brian Bendis, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado getting rid of Superman's[...]

He doesn't come up to bat that often, but when he does he tends to hit it out of the park. Mark Millar (Down) The man who sold Millarworld to Netflix, he continues to have an extraordinary ability to attract A-List artists to his projects even if they are no longer creator-owned, His ability to launch[...]

Before Christmas, comic creator Mark Millar's young daughter lost her teddy bear – a 37-year old family heirloom – a ski-suit shop in Santa's Lapland in Finland Something they only seemed to realise when they were back in Scotland. He put out an appeal to try and track it down – no joy so far[...]

Last week, Mark Millar's mystery comic book from Netflix/Image Comics shipped to comic book stores, and revealed on Bleeding Cool as the long-awaited sequel to Chosen, co-created with Peter Gross and originally published by Dark Horse Comics, as American Jesus: New Messiah Image Comics has now revealed all three solicitations for the three issue mini-series[...]

One more sleep, everyone, one more sleep… The 10 most-read stories yesterday "Rick and Morty": Netflix Makes Season 4 Available in 30+ Countries "Biological Sex is Flexible Among My People and Gender is a Social Construct" – The Tenth/Thirteenth Doctor Who Crossover Has The Talk Did John Paul Leon Cast Jake Gyllenhaal as John Constantine in Hellblazer? More Incest-Kissing in[...]

Back in September, Mark Millar teased a surprise project for the week before Christmas Little did he know at the time that this week would be the biggest week in comics in 2019, in terms of big projects landing in comic stores And despite all the fuss, it is in danger of being overshadowed, no[...]

Vote wisely, British folk. — Graeme (@graemem) December 12, 2019 Mark Millar went out on the streets campaigning for Labour… Out leafleting for our brilliant Glasgow North Labour candidate @GlasgowPam this morning at 730am We're lucky to have someone this great She's gonna ROMP it!!!! pic.twitter.com/hkm6OmMWgr — Mark Millar (@mrmarkmillar) 12 December 2019 Glasgow North! Coatbridge! West Suffolk followers! Vote[...]

Jupiter's Legacy is the upcoming Netflix adaptation of the Mark Millar, Frank Quitely and Peter Doherty superhero comic book from Image Comics. The word on the web is that one of the show's writer Sang Kyu Kim will be its new showrunner, replacing Steven DeKnight, who left the production suddenly last month. Kim has previously worked as[...]

Once of the standout scenes from Kingsman: The Secret Service, based on the Secret Service comic book by Dave Gibbons, Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar involved Colin Firth's character finding himself in a rather fundamentalist church that suddenly gets a lot more fundamental, used as a test for something that turns everyone in there into[...]

A long time ago, Mark Millar wrote a Youngblood comic book drawn by Rob Liefeld called Youngblood: Bloodsport, published by Arcade Comics The first issue was published in 2004 and Mark Millar finished writing scripts for issues 2 and 3. But of issue 2's publication, there was none. Liefeld then said that the second issue would be[...]

Mark Millar sold his Millarworld publishing imprint to Netflix in the summer of 2016 Since then he has been a (very well paid) employee of Netflix, working on TV shows and new comic books, published by Image Comics but owned by Netflix As a result, he has also been restricted from working on Kingsman, Kick-Ass[...]

Matthew Vaughn created the Secret Service comic books with Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, which span into the Kingsman movies, of which the third, the prequel The King's Man, is about to come out. The cast and crew of The King's Man have been attending New York Comic Con, where they gave an interview, telling stories[...]

Matthew Vaughn returns to direct the prequel and third film of the Kingsman series, loosely based on the comics of the same name created by David Gibbons and Mark Millar. // 20th Century Fox Classy and Deadly The story is primarily set around the events surrounding World War I as tyrants, megalomaniacs and criminal masterminds devise new creative[...]

Mark Millar and his employer Netflix are publishing a comic book through Image Comics just in time for Christmas, without telling anyone what it is. In a fashion slightly reminiscent of Robert Kirkman with DIEDIEDIE and Boom Studios with Angel, at least retailers know this one is coming They just won't know what it is. Dubbed 'Project[...]

While the first four episodes have been filmed (and DeKnight himself wrote and directed the first episode), no decision will be made on the fate of existing footage or if reshoots will be needed until a new showrunner has been named. Based on the graphic novels of the same name by Mark Millar and artist Frank[...]

Sharkey The Bounty Hunter #6, the Lemmy/Lobo comic book by Mark Millar and Simone Bianchi has been running rather late Sharkey The Bounty Hunter #6 was solicited for August 28th, but has now been rescheduled for October 9th, from Image Comics. Ahead of publication, the planned cover by Oliver Coipel has been replaced by a new[...]

Ahead of its July release, Millarworld has released a preview of the upcoming zany space buddy-comic, Space Bandits, via media partner Comic Book Resources, alongside an EX-X-XCLUSIVE interview with writer Mark Millar himself Unsurprisingly, CBR didn't ask Millar about the perceived visual similarities between Space Bandits and Kim & Kim, as that's really not the[...]

But the one image that understandably got the most attention was the one of Derek Mears' Swamp Thing (all of which you can find below) – and so far, reactions have been pretty positive. DC Universe Two names in particular that you can add to that list: comic book author and novelist Steve Niles (30 Days of[...]

Netflix has announced the latest Millarworld comic book/film adaptation project, Space Bandits, by writer Mark Millar and artist Matteo Scalera, with a first issue variant cover by Howard Chaykin Millar describes the project as "a female Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid set in space with a massive and exciting cast of characters." Image Comics[...]

But Bleeding Cool has been given the opportunity to show the clip. Previously, the seemingly-approved version of events had Ultimates writer Mark Millar as the one who asked artist Hitch to draw Nick Fury as Jackson Previously a 1960s secret agent, and so white he was played by David Hasselhoff in an 1990s TV movie, this was[...]

Based on the graphic novels of the same name by Mark Millar and artist Frank Quitely and published by Image Comics, the adaptation stars Josh Duhamel (Transformers), Ben Daniels (The Crown), Leslie Bibb (Tag), Elena Kampouris (Sacred Lies), Andrew Horton (How to Talk to Girls at Parties), Matt Lanter (Timeless), and Mike Wade (For the People). DeKnight[...]

Remember when Netflix purchased pretty much all of Mark Millar's "Millarworld" last year to create/produce content for $30-50 million?  We haven't heard much about it since the deal went through back in November, but it appears we know what the first project from the deal will be. According to Deadline, Chris McKay will be directing a series or[...]