Last summer, we learned of DC Studios' plans for an animated adaptation of Tom King and Mitch Gerads' Mister Miracle. King will serve as showrunner on the series, which suggests the story will stick closely to the Eisner Award-winning comic.
DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has repeatedly said that actors who play DCU characters in animation will reprise their roles in live-action, and Mister Miracle's canon status has since been confirmed (Nathan Fillion will return as Guy Gardner in the show, despite not appearing in the comic).
King has confirmed the show's leads have been cast, and two of them may have been revealed: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law star Jameela Jamil and Detective Pikachu's Justice Smith.
There's currently no mention of who they're playing, but it's safe to assume they could be the DCU's Big Barda and Scott Free. Jamil previously played the formidable Titania in the MCU, while a role like this would give Smith the chance to show his dramatic chops.
@MyTimeToShineH was the first to share the news, but cautions that it may not be correct. Take it with a pinch of salt for now, but here's hoping this leads to us getting an official announcement soon (especially with Darkseid among the show's leads).
The upcoming series follows Scott Free, known worldwide as Mister Miracle, the greatest escape artist who ever lived. With his wife, Big Barda, Scott seemed to have built the perfect life on Earth, until everything began to unravel. As war erupts between the planets Apocalypse and New Genesis, Scott’s adoptive father, Darkseid, has apparently obtained the Anti-Life Equation, a devastating force capable of dominating the universe.
With carnage escalating on both sides, Mister Miracle becomes the last hope to end the conflict and restore peace. But the power of the Anti-Life Equation might already be affecting Scott’s mind, distorting his reality and threatening the happiness he shares with Barda.
"We are in the middle of making this absolutely wonderful show as good as it possibly can be. I'm the showrunner. I am writing every single episode. I can confirm that Mister Miracle is a DCU show that has huge implications for the DCU at large," King previously said. "We are doing it right. Mitch is a producer on it and a designer."
"We got to cast Darkseid. And we got to cast Orion. Obviously, Scott and Barda were the big ones," he added. "[We're] finding the right people, finding the right designs and finding the way to tell this story."
Stay tuned for updates on Mister Miracle as we have them.