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James Gunn has confirmed Mister Miracle’s DCU canon status.
Mister Miracle is a forthcoming TV show from Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios. Based on the Eisner Award-winning comic book series by Tom King and Mitch Gerads, Mister Miracle will focus on the DC characters Scott Free and Big Barda. King will serve as showrunner.
What did James Gunn say about Mister Miracle?
On Instagram, Gunn shared a post honoring the 55th anniversary of Mister Miracle’s debut in DC Comics.
“The world’s greatest escape artist made his debut on this day 55 years ago in 1971! Happy anniversary to Mister Miracle, who debuted in MISTER MIRACLE #1, written by Jack Kirby, with pencils by Jack Kirby and inks by Vince Colletta,” Gunn wrote. “Soon to be seen in our DCU animated show based on the 12-issue comic book series from @tomking_tk and @mitchgerads.”
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When asked if this was confirmation that Mister Miracle will be set within the DCU, Gunn said, “Indeed.”
A premiere date for Mister Miracle has not yet been set. No casting has been announced at this time.
A description of the show 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. 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.”
