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Darkseid’s casting in the DCU has received a surprising update.
Darkseid will appear in the forthcoming Mister Miracle animated series, which is part of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU. The Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios show is based on the Eisner Award-winning comic book series by Tom King and Mitch Gerads. King serves as the showrunner for Mister Miracle.
What did Tom King say about the DCU’s Darkseid casting?
Appearing on The Brave and the Boys, King discussed the casting for the Mister Miracle show. He didn’t reveal any specific names; however, according to his comments, Darkseid’s casting may end up surprising a lot of fans.
“There were some people who nailed it, and were exactly — like, oh my god, that is Scott, that is Barta,” King said. “And then there were some people where it was, that’s not what I expected, but that is Darkseid. It ran the gauntlet from — I mean, I love this book, I love it to death, and I wasn’t going to settle for anything less than perfect — but it ran the gauntlet from perfect to just beyond.”
How big a presence Darkseid, who is generally regarded as being one of the biggest villains in DC Comics, has in the DCU after the Mister Miracle show remains to be seen. Having said that, Gunn previously stated, per IGN, that using the character as “the big bad” in the DCU “right now is not necessarily the thing.”
He added, “For a lot of reasons, because Zack [Snyder] did it so cool in his way, and because of Thanos in Marvel.”
A premiere date for the Mister Miracle show has not yet been announced. A portion of the description reads, “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.”
