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Mister Miracle Planned for 2028; Season’s Animatics Screened: Safran
DC Studios’ Peter Safran had some non-casting news to share about DC Studios’ series adaptation of Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ Mister Miracle.
Article Summary
- Peter Safran says DC Studios’ Mister Miracle is targeting a 2028 release and that he’s screened animatics for all eight episodes.
- The adult animated Mister Miracle season is planned as eight 30-minute episodes, with Safran calling production very advanced.
- Safran also suggests Mister Miracle could continue beyond one season, with more stories to tell for Scott Free and Big Barda.
- Tom King says the Mister Miracle voice cast is exceptional, with some actors matching his vision and others redefining it.
DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran has become a great source for intel on how things are looking with DC Studios and Warner Animation’s animated series adaptation of Tom King and Mitch Gerads‘ Mister Miracle. We’re just not sure that was the original plan. During a recent wide-ranging interview about what DC Studios has planned for the DCU moving forward, Safran revealed that Josh Hutcherson (“The Hunger Games” franchise, I Love L.A.) and Mackenzie Davis (Below) would be voicing Scott Free and Big Barda, respectively. Well, it seems that Safran had more to share about the highly anticipated animated series – including a production update and early release window.
Speaking with Collider while out in support of DC Studios’ Clayface, Safran shared that he’s screened animatics for the entire eight-episode season, which will feature 30-minute episodes and is being eyed for a 2028 release. “We haven’t actually announced a date for it. We’re very advanced on it. I mean, we’ve seen animatics of the whole season. But I think we’ve always thought of it as ’28,” Safran shared, adding when asked if each episode would be 30 minutes long, “Yeah. I think that’s what we ended up with.” As for the possibility of the animated series running for more than one season – beyond the adaptation of King and Gerads’s work – Safran left the door open. “Well, because it’s about Scott and Barda and their child, I think there are a lot of places you can go with it. There’s no reason why it couldn’t be an ongoing season series,” he added.
Checking in with The Brave and the Boys podcast back in January, King explained how essential auditions were in making sure he could find the right voice for each character. From there, he described the experience he feels when an actor is so right for a character that, as a writer, he focuses less on the words written and more on the moment being expressed. Regarding the upcoming animated series, King explained how some of the actors cast hit perfectly with the voice that King had for certain characters, while another actor offered King something he wasn’t expecting, something that was right for the role.
“So yeah, I mean, there were some people who nailed it, who were exactly just… I was like, ‘Oh, my god! That is Scott. That is Barta,” King shared about the actors cast for the DCU animated series. “And then there were some people who are… I was like, ‘That’s not what I expected, but that is what… that is Darkseid.’ So yeah, it ran the gauntlet from, I mean… I love this book. I love it to death. I wasn’t going to settle for anything less than perfect. But it ran the gauntlet from perfect to just beyond.”
Checking in with Brandon Davis during WonderCon in May for a wide-ranging interview covering his comics and DC Studios work (which you can check out above), King had some things to share about the highly anticipated animated series. As he’s mentioned in the past, King notes that the animated series is “my whole life right now.” That includes writing the season’s scripts, with King noting that he was taking a page from DC Studios co-CEO and writer/director James Gunn‘s playbook with how he approached Creature Commandos.
In addition, King shared that he was with the actors during the recording that morning, doing “all that kind of actorly… directing kind of stuff.” The previous day, King was in the editing bay, editing the pilot, and had previously checked out the artwork while in Paris. In addition, King shared that he and Gerads are “constantly in touch, building the whole thing.”
From there, King shared a brief look at Mister Miracle with Davis via his phone, with Davis clearly impressed. Having heard from fans over the past 10 years how deeply the work affected them emotionally, King approached the animated adaptation with those thoughts in mind. “And so people tell me, ‘Oh, this part really meant a lot to me or this part was confusing.’ And so, recreating it, I can be like, ‘This was the part that meant the most to fans. Let’s lean into that.’ Or, ‘This part needed some clarification. We can clarify that.’ But I can, having talked to so many fans about this book, I can bring out what they loved in it in the series. So, it’s just been a joy.”
Teasing that there were “lots of announcements to come,” King wanted it to be known that working on the series “couldn’t be more fun.” He continued, “I love these Jack Kirby characters. And just, you know, playing with Orion and Darkseid and Mr. Miracle. Especially Mr. Miracle and Barta and their relationship, which is the key to the whole series, has been just absolutely joy. And wait till you see who’s been cast. Oh my god, it’s amazing. It’s great.”
“Get out your veggie trays…,” King began the caption to his Instagram post back in June, which also included a look at the key art for the series and a look at the original comic book series run. “Just announced and coming soon. MISTER MIRACLE: a new adult animated series from DC Studios and [Warner Bros. Animation]. Based on the Eisner winning best-selling comic by myself and semi-professional nerd/genius, [Mitch Gerads]. I’ll be show running the series, working with a dream team of animators and storytellers including Mitch himself who drew that gorgeous teaser art up there. Hard to express how excited I am to be working on this, what a joy it is. I love these characters and I love this world that the King, Jack Kirby built from a pencil tip. Thank you all for supporting the book over all these years. Its meant so much. More details coming.” Here’s a look at King’s thoughts from shortly after the news broke, followed by a look back at the animated series’ official overview (based on the DC Comics characters created by Jack Kirby):
No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensation known as Mister Miracle, and he is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. But can he pull off the ultimate trick — and escape death itself?
Something has gone horribly wrong with the perfect life that Scott and his warrior wife, Big Barda, have built for themselves on Earth. With war raging between their home worlds of Apocalypse and New Genesis, Scott’s cruel adoptive father, Darkseid, seems to have finally captured the Anti-Life Equation — the ultimate weapon that will give Darkseid total dominance over the universe.
As the mountains of bodies on both sides grow ever higher, only Mister Miracle can stop the slaughter and restore peace. But the terrible power of the Anti-Life Equation may already be at work in his own mind, warping his reality, exposing his long-buried pain, and shattering the fragile happiness he’s found with the woman he loves.
And so begins the odyssey of Scott Free, Mister Miracle: a harrowing, hilarious, heart-wrenching journey across the pitfalls of the ordinary and extraordinary as the son of God raised by the devil tries to save his family, his world, and maybe even himself.
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