Jupiter's Legacy Trailer

[lordultimus]

The first official trailer for the Netflix adaptation of Mark Millar's Jupiter's Legacy is out.

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Comments

[thanekos]

That wasn't a half bad music video.

[zachbeacon]

I was going to make a Suicide Squad joke but that probably describes half of all TV/movie trailers now.

[dan_ingram]

Looks good, honestly. Millar's stuff filtered through others can be damn good, IMO

[zachbeacon]

Yeah, he's like Bizarro Alan Moore. He can be a solid writer but it's clear he just wants to be an idea guy and pitch movies that turn out better than his comics.

Still confused about Wanted though. That movie had so little to do with the comic that I don't get why they didn't make an original movie and cut him out.

(Granted, while swapping supervillians for assassins is an odd choice, I'm happy we don't see our protagonist sexually assault a pop star in the movie)

[super_fly]

They wanted to use the fancy bullet stuff so they got the title and excised the rest of the garbage
For the best really

[zachbeacon]

Yeah, but the title is just about the only thing they kept. "Wanted" is generic enough a title anyway.

It'd be like saying you're making a show about Vertigo's Lucifer and then making a show where the devil helps the cops solve crimes instead. Satan is in the public domain; you don't need to cut DC a check if you're not using their version of the character. Was the nightclub really THAT important to them?.

[leahandillyana]

I'm glad that the casting is not a toast bread festival. The line is so low...

[bmaryott]

I don't know what that means.

[leahandillyana]

I'm glad not everybody is white.

[fra080389]

I'm confused about who is who, I'm guessing the POC character is Skyfox? And that his son had a daughter and not a son here?

[strejdaking]

The black man in the flashbacks is Flare (the yellow guy).

[bmaryott]

I just hope they have the "MOMMY HEARS EVERYTHING!" scene!

[lucean]

As the Jupiter saga was posted here recently, something I realized that despite all my criticism towards the series, it actually has a pretty decent show in it if some things are just worked on. And while it is just a trailer, it actually made me hopeful with just some of the changes they showed here. For example, that maybe George's son with an African-American woman shouldn't look like one of the whitest people in the world.

Having written all that, holy hell that one wig is horrendous.

[mazway_75]

Hopefully it follows a trend to tone down the...you know...MILLAR crazy stuff for an actually good story.

[starwolf_oakley]

Oh, certainly. Mark Millar does some good stuff. Then he goes MARK MILLAR. And producers/directors/writers get the Mark Millar out of the MARK MILLAR.

[strejdaking]

Besides the one twist from Circle, is there much stuff that needs to get toned down?

[doodleboy]

Somehow Mark Millar managed to get all of his 4-issue IP adapted.

There's a Nemesis one coming too I hope that one is radically reinvented to say the least.

[zachbeacon]

I'm wondering how this will be paced. Lots of flashbacks?

It seems like a lot of the character drama was in the prequels whereas the main series was mostly an extremely violent* action series.

*I'd hope they tone that down in live action but Amazon's The Boys is a thing that exists so who knows.

[strejdaking]

I didn't find the action scenes all THAT violent-I only recall the death of Lady Liberty standing out. Definitely nothing compared to the stuff you would see in Invincible.

[zachbeacon]

I was specifically thinking of Lady Liberty, yes.

The gore in Invincible never really bothered me since the art style was so cartoony and it was mostly aliens with blue blood. If it were live action it'd be horrific, though.