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Mark Millar always likes a Christmas surprise This year that means announcing artists who will be working on new, unknown Millarworld books, owned by Netflix, published by Image Comics, in 2021 and 2022. As well as Mark Millar's own notebooks for The Magic Order vol 3 and 4, based on the TV series he created for[...]

Emily Brooks Millar, whose father is legendary comic book writer, publisher and now Netflix employee, Mark Millar Telling how aspects of Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass was based on her, at the age of 22 and living in Glasgow, Emily is staging her first art exhibition and launching her first comic book And from all the evidence[...]

Heading into the holiday weekend, we're trying to play "catch-up" on all of the shows we cover that are in some stage of production, so this time around it's Netflix's live-action adaptation of writer Mark Millar and artist Frank Quitely's comic book series Jupiter's Legacy While we haven't gotten any official footage yet, Millar has been[...]

It's been a little more than two months since we last checked in on Jupiter's Legacy writer Mark Millar for an update on Netflix's adaptation of his and artist Frank Quitely's comic book series During our last visit, we learned that he met with the streaming service's marketing team for early looks at the teaser and[...]

Mark Millar has seen a number of people talking about upcoming Netflix/Millarworld TV series/films as being adaptations of his comic books published through Image Comics But on Twitter, he wanted to set the record straight and, basically explain it all Anyway, he laid it all out on Twitter. Netflix logo over Millarworld characters.  No shows/ movies created[...]

Mark Millar's The Magic Order will be pulling a disappearing act (at least for now) from Netflix, with reports that the streaming service is not proceeding with production on the series adaptation Though early-pre-production was underway and scripts were being written, the 2021 series hadn't cast the project yet As for why we wrote "at[...]

While there are two films based on the Mark Millar and John Romita Jr comic in 2010 and 2013, there's no reason why it couldn't be explored again on television The roles of Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass and Mindy Macready/Hit Girl played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz, respectively in the films doing wonders for their[...]

When we last checked in with Jupiter's Legacy writer Mark Millar for an update on Netflix's adaptation of his and artist Frank Quitely's comic book series, he was reassuring fans that the team was "busy" with post-production on the eight episodes Less than two months later, Millar is back on social media with some updates[...]

In Mark Millar's video interview with Titan Comics and Forbidden Planet's Andrew Sumner for the 42nd anniversary of Forbidden Planet, Millar talked about his upcoming plans – that would have involved him taking a year off this year, but then everyone else went and did that as well Mark Millar lays out what's coming from[...]

Also including videos with Mark Millar, Alice Cooper, William Shatner, Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Chris Claremont, Duncan Jones, Leigh Balch, Run DMC, Gerard Way, Ben Aaronovitch, Michael Moorcock, Simon Pegg, V.E.Schwab, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons and more So… what else were you going to do with your weekend? And there's plenty of Behind The Scenes interviews[...]

That's his brother in the background… Tom Hollander photo by Marysia Kay. And Tom Hollander, who would later appear in The Thick Of It, In The Loop, Rev, Pirates Of The Caribbean, and was utterly brilliant in the stage play revival of Travesties. Gwyneth Paltrow photo by Marysia Kay. Oh yes, and Gwyneth Paltrow. With security guard… Gwyneth Paltrow photo by[...]

Forbidden Planet is about to celebrate its 42nd birthday and Mark Millar has been video-interviewed with Forbidden Planet and Titan Comics' Andrew Sumner, going live at forbiddenplanet.com/fp42 on Saturday, August 29th But first, he talked about how he read about Forbidden Planet in the comics long before he actually could go to the place… and we went[...]

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[...]

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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[...]

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[...]