Plaion Pictures is excited to announce that their new comedy horror, Slotherhouse, is out now on all major digital download platforms. Featuring an impressive up and coming cast, British actress Lisa Ambalavanar stars alongside EastEnders alumna Sydney Craven (Wolf Blood) and Andrew Horton (Jupiter’s Legacy). Directed by Matthew Goodhue and written by Bradley Fowler & Cady Lanigan. Slotherhouse follows Emily Young, a technology obsessed sorority senior trapped in the world of social currency and popularity, as she discovers the influence she can gain from cute animals after meeting an exotic pet distributor. Emily’s deep desire to become sorority house President leads to her adopting a poached pet sloth in order to use it to help her get elected new house President. But when bodies slowly begin to pile up in the Lambda Omega Omega house, Emily and her sisters are slow to realize the deaths are being caused by their new house mascot,...
- 2/22/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Writer and actor Mark Gatiss is keeping the Christmas ghost story tradition going with Lot No. 249, a new BBC adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle‘s short story. Deadline reports that Gatiss will reunite with “Game of Thrones” alum Kit Harrington for the project.
Lot No. 249 will air on BBC Two this Christmas. A U.S. distributor has not yet been named.
The adaptation ““revolves around a group of Oxford students, one of whom undertakes research into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, which become the talk of the college. Can these experiments truly breathe life to the horrifying bag of bones which is the mysterious Lot. No 249?”
Harrington will star alongside Freddie Fox. Harington will play Abercrombie Smith and Fox will play Edward Bellingham.
Colin Ryan (Boundless), John Heffernan (Dracula), James Swanton (Stopmotion), Jonathan Rigby (Father Brown) and Andrew Horton (Slotherhouse) also star in this Mummy story.
Gatiss told Deadline, “It...
Lot No. 249 will air on BBC Two this Christmas. A U.S. distributor has not yet been named.
The adaptation ““revolves around a group of Oxford students, one of whom undertakes research into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, which become the talk of the college. Can these experiments truly breathe life to the horrifying bag of bones which is the mysterious Lot. No 249?”
Harrington will star alongside Freddie Fox. Harington will play Abercrombie Smith and Fox will play Edward Bellingham.
Colin Ryan (Boundless), John Heffernan (Dracula), James Swanton (Stopmotion), Jonathan Rigby (Father Brown) and Andrew Horton (Slotherhouse) also star in this Mummy story.
Gatiss told Deadline, “It...
- 10/19/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Can you believe October is already almost here? You can expect the new horror releases to kick into high gear in a couple weeks, but we’ve still got two weeks left to go in September.
And this week brings Five new horror movies to the table.
Here’s all the new horror releasing September 18 – September 24, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
After a limited theatrical release last month, director Matthew Goodhue’s exceedingly lovable killer sloth slasher comedy Slotherhouse is now available on VOD platforms.
Slotherhouse is a brand new horror-comedy that tells the story of college senior Emily Young, who unknowingly invites an adorable murderous sloth onto campus.
“It’s senior year of college for sorority sister Emily Young and for the first time ever, Sigma Lambda Theta is having elections for who will be president. Wanting to have a killer year,...
And this week brings Five new horror movies to the table.
Here’s all the new horror releasing September 18 – September 24, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
After a limited theatrical release last month, director Matthew Goodhue’s exceedingly lovable killer sloth slasher comedy Slotherhouse is now available on VOD platforms.
Slotherhouse is a brand new horror-comedy that tells the story of college senior Emily Young, who unknowingly invites an adorable murderous sloth onto campus.
“It’s senior year of college for sorority sister Emily Young and for the first time ever, Sigma Lambda Theta is having elections for who will be president. Wanting to have a killer year,...
- 9/20/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The annual New York Greek Film Expo has been set for Village East Cinema in Manhattan and the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, N.J. on October 5-15.
The event will screen the latest Greek films, along with a retrospective of the films of acclaimed director, screenwriter and actor Renos Haralambidis, which will be shown at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMi).
Haralambidis will be in attendance throughout the festival, along with many of the filmmakers whose films are being presented. Filmmaker Q&a’s will follow the screenings.
Film historians Andrew Horton (University of Oklahoma) and Foster Hirsch (Brooklyn College), along with David Schwartz, founder of Cinema Projects and former MoMI chief curator, will conduct interviews with Haralambidis following each of his screenings.
Four of the filmmaker’s movies will be shown at the fest: “Four Black Suits” (2010), “No Budget Story” 1997), “The Heart Of The Beast” (2005) and...
The event will screen the latest Greek films, along with a retrospective of the films of acclaimed director, screenwriter and actor Renos Haralambidis, which will be shown at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMi).
Haralambidis will be in attendance throughout the festival, along with many of the filmmakers whose films are being presented. Filmmaker Q&a’s will follow the screenings.
Film historians Andrew Horton (University of Oklahoma) and Foster Hirsch (Brooklyn College), along with David Schwartz, founder of Cinema Projects and former MoMI chief curator, will conduct interviews with Haralambidis following each of his screenings.
Four of the filmmaker’s movies will be shown at the fest: “Four Black Suits” (2010), “No Budget Story” 1997), “The Heart Of The Beast” (2005) and...
- 9/19/2023
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
Rush Week is about to get even more cutthroat in Slotherhouse, the new horror comedy from Gravitas Ventures. Bloody Disgusting has been provided with an exclusive clip giving a closer look at Alpha the Killer Sloth in action as she culls the competition among her sorority sisters.
Slotherhouse will slash its way into theaters nationwide on August 30, 2023.
Directed by Matthew Goodhue, Slotherhouse is a horror-comedy that tells the story of college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority.
“It’s senior year of college for sorority sister Emily Young and for the first time ever, Sigma Lambda Theta is having elections for who will be president. Wanting to have a killer year, Emily Young realizes she might just be the best option for her sorority. While beginning her campaign, she finds an adorable sloth that steals her heart and soon realizes she just might steal the hearts,...
Slotherhouse will slash its way into theaters nationwide on August 30, 2023.
Directed by Matthew Goodhue, Slotherhouse is a horror-comedy that tells the story of college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority.
“It’s senior year of college for sorority sister Emily Young and for the first time ever, Sigma Lambda Theta is having elections for who will be president. Wanting to have a killer year, Emily Young realizes she might just be the best option for her sorority. While beginning her campaign, she finds an adorable sloth that steals her heart and soon realizes she just might steal the hearts,...
- 8/25/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
After becoming the mascot for an unsuspecting sorority, a seemingly lovable sloth unleashes their killer instincts on the members of the Sigma Lambda Theta house in the official trailer for Slotherhouse, coming to theaters on August 30th from Gravitas Ventures:
Synopsis: It’s senior year of college for sorority sister Emily Young and for the first time ever, Sigma Lambda Theta is having elections for who will be president. Wanting to have a killer year, Emily Young realizes she might just be the best option for her sorority. While beginning her campaign, she finds an adorable sloth that steals her heart and soon realizes she just might steal the hearts, and votes, of her sorority sisters. But when bodies slowly begin to pile up in the Sigma Lambda Theta house, Emily and her sorority sisters realize the deaths are being caused by their new house mascot, the cuddly sloth Alpha.
Synopsis: It’s senior year of college for sorority sister Emily Young and for the first time ever, Sigma Lambda Theta is having elections for who will be president. Wanting to have a killer year, Emily Young realizes she might just be the best option for her sorority. While beginning her campaign, she finds an adorable sloth that steals her heart and soon realizes she just might steal the hearts, and votes, of her sorority sisters. But when bodies slowly begin to pile up in the Sigma Lambda Theta house, Emily and her sorority sisters realize the deaths are being caused by their new house mascot, the cuddly sloth Alpha.
- 8/2/2023
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Last week, we learned that Gravitas Ventures and Iconic Events Releasing will be giving the killer animal horror comedy Slotherhouse a nationwide theatrical release on August 30th. With that release date just four weeks away, a trailer for the film has now arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above!
Directed by Matthew Goodhue from a screenplay by Bradley Fowler, who crafted the story with Cady Lanigan, Slotherhouse centers on college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority. When she adopts an adorable sloth, she realizes the animal can serve as the house’s new mascot and help her win votes, dubbing the animal Alpha. The new pet is a beloved addition to the sorority house until a series of deaths point toward the sloth as the prime murder suspect. The film becomes a survival story of sisters versus sloth as...
Directed by Matthew Goodhue from a screenplay by Bradley Fowler, who crafted the story with Cady Lanigan, Slotherhouse centers on college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority. When she adopts an adorable sloth, she realizes the animal can serve as the house’s new mascot and help her win votes, dubbing the animal Alpha. The new pet is a beloved addition to the sorority house until a series of deaths point toward the sloth as the prime murder suspect. The film becomes a survival story of sisters versus sloth as...
- 8/2/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
"In the jungle, she's a 'beta.' But out here, she's an 'alpha.'" Gravitas Ventures + Iconic Events have unveiled the first official trailer for Slotherhouse, the hilariously fun new slasher horror film featuring a killer sloth. Yes, seriously, it's real – and amazing. It's described as a "delightfully over-the-top and movie about a sloth that goes on a killing spree in a sorority..." In the spirit of M3GAN, Cocaine Bear, and the Chucky / Child's Play series, though I'd reckon it's more like Gremlins or Critters. Emily Young wants to be elected as her sorority's president. She adopts a cute sloth, thinking it can become the new mascot and help her win, until a string of fatalities implicate the sloth as the main suspect in the murders. It's time to meet Alpha the Killer Sloth. Starring Lisa Ambalavanar, Sydney Craven, Olivia Rouyre, Bianca Beckles-Rose, Andrew Horton, Sutter Nolan, and Grace Patterson.
- 8/2/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Out in the jungle, she’s a beta. But in Slotherhouse? She’s an Alpha. Get ready to meet Alpha, the killer sloth in the new horror comedy from Gravitas Ventures.
Slotherhouse will slash its way into theaters nationwide on August 30, 2023.
Get a peek at Alpha’s reign of collegiate terror in the brand new trailer and poster reveal below.
Directed by Matthew Goodhue, Slotherhouse is a horror-comedy that tells the story of college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority.
“It’s senior year of college for sorority sister Emily Young and for the first time ever, Sigma Lambda Theta is having elections for who will be president. Wanting to have a killer year, Emily Young realizes she might just be the best option for her sorority. While beginning her campaign, she finds an adorable sloth that steals her heart and soon realizes she just might steal the hearts,...
Slotherhouse will slash its way into theaters nationwide on August 30, 2023.
Get a peek at Alpha’s reign of collegiate terror in the brand new trailer and poster reveal below.
Directed by Matthew Goodhue, Slotherhouse is a horror-comedy that tells the story of college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority.
“It’s senior year of college for sorority sister Emily Young and for the first time ever, Sigma Lambda Theta is having elections for who will be president. Wanting to have a killer year, Emily Young realizes she might just be the best option for her sorority. While beginning her campaign, she finds an adorable sloth that steals her heart and soon realizes she just might steal the hearts,...
- 8/2/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Last month, we got a look at the trailer for the killer gopher horror comedy Caddy Hack, which is set to make its premiere at Kevin Smith’s Smodcastle theatre in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey on August 11th. (With a home video release to follow in October.) Now Variety has broken the news that there’s another killer animal horror comedy that will be getting some theatrical play next month: coming our way from Gravitas Ventures and Iconic Events Releasing is the killer sloth movie Slotherhouse, which will reach theatres nationwide on August 30th!
Directed by Matthew Goodhue from a screenplay by Bradley Fowler, who crafted the story with Cady Lanigan, Slotherhouse centers on college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority. When she adopts an adorable sloth, she realizes the animal can serve as the house’s new mascot and help her win votes,...
Directed by Matthew Goodhue from a screenplay by Bradley Fowler, who crafted the story with Cady Lanigan, Slotherhouse centers on college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority. When she adopts an adorable sloth, she realizes the animal can serve as the house’s new mascot and help her win votes,...
- 7/26/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Gravitas Ventures has acquired the upcoming killer sloth horror movie Slotherhouse, Variety reports today, with the film headed to the big screen courtesy of Iconic Events.
Slotherhouse will slash its way into theaters nationwide on August 30, 2023.
Directed by Matthew Goodhue, Slotherhouse is a horror-comedy that tells the story of college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority.
“When she adopts an adorable sloth, she realizes the animal can serve as the house’s new mascot and help her win votes, dubbing the animal Alpha. The new pet is a beloved addition to the sorority house until a series of deaths point toward the sloth as the prime murder suspect. The film becomes a survival story of sisters versus sloth as the girls wonder if they can make it out of Sigma Lambda Theta alive.”
Lisa Ambalavanar, Sydney Craven, Olivia Rouyre, Bianca Beckles-Rose, Andrew Horton, Sutter Nolan,...
Slotherhouse will slash its way into theaters nationwide on August 30, 2023.
Directed by Matthew Goodhue, Slotherhouse is a horror-comedy that tells the story of college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority.
“When she adopts an adorable sloth, she realizes the animal can serve as the house’s new mascot and help her win votes, dubbing the animal Alpha. The new pet is a beloved addition to the sorority house until a series of deaths point toward the sloth as the prime murder suspect. The film becomes a survival story of sisters versus sloth as the girls wonder if they can make it out of Sigma Lambda Theta alive.”
Lisa Ambalavanar, Sydney Craven, Olivia Rouyre, Bianca Beckles-Rose, Andrew Horton, Sutter Nolan,...
- 7/26/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Gravitas Ventures has acquired the rights to the upcoming horror-comedy “Slotherhouse,” directed by Matthew Goodhue. Alongside Iconic Events Releasing, the film will hit theaters nationwide on August 30.
“Slotherhouse” tells the story of college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority. When she adopts an adorable sloth, she realizes the animal can serve as the house’s new mascot and help her win votes, dubbing the animal Alpha. The new pet is a beloved addition to the sorority house until a series of deaths point toward the sloth as the prime murder suspect. The film becomes a survival story of sisters versus sloth as the girls wonder if they can make it out of Sigma Lambda Theta alive.
“’Slotherhouse’ is a movie that embodies the reckless abandon genre films can bring to the table. It scratches the sloth itch we didn’t know we had! Our...
“Slotherhouse” tells the story of college senior Emily Young, who aims to be voted president of her sorority. When she adopts an adorable sloth, she realizes the animal can serve as the house’s new mascot and help her win votes, dubbing the animal Alpha. The new pet is a beloved addition to the sorority house until a series of deaths point toward the sloth as the prime murder suspect. The film becomes a survival story of sisters versus sloth as the girls wonder if they can make it out of Sigma Lambda Theta alive.
“’Slotherhouse’ is a movie that embodies the reckless abandon genre films can bring to the table. It scratches the sloth itch we didn’t know we had! Our...
- 7/26/2023
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: Landscapes of TimeFourteen films will be showing from October 13 to December 18, 2022 at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood with free tickets and free parking thanks to an anonymous donor to the Hammer Museum. Sponsored by UCLA’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles, the kickoff film, ‘Landscapes in the Mist’ played to a full house.
How did all these people know Theodoros Angelopoulos? I thought he was my own private guilty pleasure, my own discovery from the days when I would spend the last day of every film festival where I was working to see a film I wanted to see, knowing I would never be able to convince my company to buy it. It was at the Thessaloniki Film Festival 1991 when I first saw an Angelopoulis film, The Suspended Step of the Stork starring Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau. I had never seen such a film with the story only revealing its impact at the end. I had seen slow films of Antonioni (not knowing his screenwriter was the same who wrote Angelopoulos’s films), but this film was so unlike any film I had ever seen before. I barely understood what was happening until the end when story revealed the inner core of its truth. At that moment, I knew that the film had changed my life and my perceptions. This was the first in Angelopoulos’ Trilogy of Borders.
‘Suspended Step of the Stork’
As of this writing, two films have screened thus far: Landscape in the Mist (European Film Award for Best Film), the last of his Trilogy of Silence. It was followed the next week by Eternity and a Day (Palme d’Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival), the last of his Trilogy of Borders. Having seen these two, so many questions arose for me that I knew I needed to find out more about Angelopoulos himself.
Why these trilogies? Does he always work in threes, making trilogies and why?
Why were both Eternity and a Day and Landscape in the Mist about a little boy Alexander who has no parents, and most particularly no father? Is Alexander in all his films?
What’s with the troupe of actors which keeps showing up in Landscape in the Mist and is central to The Traveling Players his Trilogy of History?
Why are there always three yellow jacketed bicycle riders in the two films I have so far seen?
Why is there always a wedding — sometimes happy, sometimes not so?
Critic Andrew Horton calls Angelopoulos’ films, “Cinema of Contemplation” which does give the context within which one derives the full impact of his stories, more through contemplation than through following a plot line which nevertheless exists. Angelopoulos believed cinema was creating a new form of universal communication. He also saw his own life as a continuation of Greek history from the beginning of time, a theme he reiterates in his films. To absorb such a large picture, one must be in a contemplative state of mind. The films provide a framework for meditation. And his end shot is more than once a line of yellow jacketed repair workers climbing telephone poles that extend beyond the horizon or riding bicycles to beyond the frame of what we see. I must see the rest of the films to know what these repairmen are doing to extend travel and communication beyond borders.
Angelopoulos views the world through the eyes of a child named Alexander who in Landscape in the Mist is about five and is traveling across Greece to Germany with his ten year old sister Voula to find the father they have never known. They recognize they are part of a story with no end. The only adult words describing their odyssey are in the bedtime story Voula tells Alexander; in the introduction to a staged play that the friend they find on the road, named Orestes, describes to them; and in the first words spoken by a singing actor as the traveling theater troupe is about to start performing the play. But, as in the bedtime story and in Orestes’ description, the play, seemingly interrupted by other events, never finishes. The story starts, “in the beginning is darkness, then comes light, then the sea and sky, then the plants and trees.” When his sister feels fear for what lies ahead, Alexander comforts her with his promise to continue telling the story that never finishes. Through the mist, they find the tree, so vaguely described by Orestes as he shows them blank frames of a 35mm piece of film he picks up and so materially there in front of them when they cross the last border to Germany. They hug its trunk in relief and renewed trust in the will of some higher order that they have arrived safely.
Landscape in the Mist is the last of the Trilogy of Silence, haunting, incisive, intimate, and deeply moving odysseys that navigate through consciousness, myth, and memory. Landscape in the Mist represents the “silence of God”. The other two parts are the “silence of history” in Voyage to Cythera (1984) and the “silence of love” in The Beekeeper [1986).
In Eternity and a Day, the child in himself, Alexander (Bruno Ganz), has become a great writer and poet who is now facing his final days of a fatal illness. Putting his affairs in order and bidding farewell to family and friends before admitting himself into the hospital where he will await death, he asks “How long is tomorrow?” and is told, it is “eternity and a day.” He finds himself paired on his last day with a child, an Albanian illegal of Greek origin who fears the future with no adult to guide him into an unknown land across the sea. The poet himself lacks to words to finish his own work let alone help the child with his fears and his own journey, but his redemption comes from a literal exchange of words through the child which allows him to transcend his life and his emotional distance.
The three words Alexander receives from the Albanian boy are korfulamu, a delicate word for the heart of a flower, a literal ‘word of comfort’ for his physical suffering. The second is xenitis, the feeling of being a stranger everywhere, including with his own beautiful wife Anna (Isabelle Renauld). and daughter. The third is argathini, meaning ‘very late at night’, a metaphor for the ‘twilight’ of his existence.
The story that never finishes is the human odyssey of migrations and crossing borders, both in lands and in our minds as we face unknown futures in landscapes we do not recognize as our own. Angelopoulos’ reality unfolds through the prism of his memories. And he counts himself lucky to have lived consciously within the context of history. His memories are a continuation of the long history of Greece. He was born in 1935 the year before King George II of Greece returned to Rome with his Prime Minister Metaxas who, with the agreement of the king, suspended the parliament and established the quasi-fascist Metaxas regime. He lived through World War II, the subsequent Civil War, and the military dictatorship of 1967–1974.
He sees his films not as psychological studies of characters but as characters’ personal lives within a historical context, of “finding one’s own history within the history of a place.” He considers his political films quite different from those of Costa Gavras’ whose he calls bourgeois.
Starting with The Iliad, The Odyssey, and later the concluding Aeneid, continuing with the classic tretralogies, cycles of three plays by the great playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Angelopoulis likewise writes in trilogies, three tragedies intended to be seen in one sitting, but way too long for most of us modern westerners. The trilogies of Angelopoulos would have greater impact if we could see them sequentially, even if not in one sitting. But the programmers did not see it that way and so we must see each film (which stands on its own) interspersed in what seems to be a random order. Even so, the themes intertwine seamlessly creating a textile of modern Greek myth, thought and insight.
Angelopoulos created Days of ’36 in 1972. It is the first film of what would become his self-described Trilogy of History that also includes The Traveling Players (1975) and Alexander the Great (1980) with an epilogue of The Hunters (1977). (The Greek plays also had epilogues.) That he made the first two films in Greece during the dictatorship required an “imposed silence” and indeed, that is the prevalent element in Days of ’36, the story of the country’s ruling leisure class suppressing the fight of leftist labor. The film begins with the assassination of a labor organizer and ends with a mafiosa-type last word of the ruling class which needs stability at any cost.
In The Traveling Players, Senses of Cinema writes:
It is interesting to note that Angelopoulos uses members of an otherwise anonymous cast of marginalized traveling players as conveyers of contemporary Greek history …: Agamemnon (Stratos Pachis) traces his immigration from Asia Minor to Greece (a reminder of the country’s historically borderless, ethnically diverse population that can be traced back to the Ottoman Empire), Electra (Eva Kotamanidou) chronicles the start of the Civil War after the defeat of the Germans in 1944, and Pylades (Kiriakos Katrivanos) provides a personal account of the torture of political prisoners. In essence, by using the testament of people who are literally transient and homeless (and without identity), Angelopoulos creates a powerful analogy for all Greek people as displaced exiles within their own country.
Again, from Senses of Cinema:
Angelopoulos returned to the theme of the nation’s historically organic, cross-cultural migration in The Travelling Players to examine the the refugee’s resigned sentiment, “We’ve crossed the border and we’re still here. How many borders must we cross to reach home?”, carries through to the makeshift, outdoor cinema in Angelopoulos’ next film, Ulysses’ Gaze, as A arrives for an unauthorized screening of his film. Like the adrift Spyros in The Beekeeper, A’s devastating emotional odyssey through his ancestral homeland is also a personal journey to reconnect with his cultural past, striving to recapture the purity of human vision that has been tainted by romantic loss, artistic controversy, familial estrangement, ideological disillusionment, and the ravages of war.
Regarding the written words of the scripts, Angelopoulos consistently worked with the Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who also frequently collaborated with such celebrated directors as Federico Fellini, Michaelangelo Antonioni (he wrote all of his movies’ scripts) and Francesco Rossi. Guerra consulted on The Dust of Time, cowrote The Weeping Meadow, Eternity and a Day, Ulysses’ Gaze, and wrote The Suspended Step of the Stork, Landscape in the Mist, The Beekeeper and Voyage to Cythera.
Angelopoulos also collaborated regularly with the cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitis and the composer Eleni Karaindrou, both of whom are essential to his works’ impact.
One of the recurring themes of his work is immigration, the flight from homeland and the return, as well as the history of 20th century Greece. Angelopoulos was considered by British film critics Derek Malcolm and David Thomson to be one of the world’s greatest directors.
Angelopoulos died late 24 January 2012, several hours after being involved in an crash while shooting the last film of his latest trilogy on modern Greece, The Other Sea in Athens. On that evening, the filmmaker had been with his crew in the area of Drapetsona, near Piraeus when he was hit by a motorcycle ridden by an off-duty police officer. The crash occurred when Angelopoulos, 76, attempted to cross a busy road. The first two films were The Weeping Meadow (2004)) and The Dust of Time (2008).
As his legacy lives on, it reminds those of us who contemplate time and space that our Western Civilization began when Greece’s voice was raised to express our most primal emotions in its tragedies. Angelopouos’ work, along with the oldest epic cycle and the Greek tragedies, all deal with the aftermath of world shaking wars which are the results of revenge and murder, sex and power wielded by those more powerful than even the king despots of the age, but by the gods themselves (whoever she is).
How did all these people know Theodoros Angelopoulos? I thought he was my own private guilty pleasure, my own discovery from the days when I would spend the last day of every film festival where I was working to see a film I wanted to see, knowing I would never be able to convince my company to buy it. It was at the Thessaloniki Film Festival 1991 when I first saw an Angelopoulis film, The Suspended Step of the Stork starring Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau. I had never seen such a film with the story only revealing its impact at the end. I had seen slow films of Antonioni (not knowing his screenwriter was the same who wrote Angelopoulos’s films), but this film was so unlike any film I had ever seen before. I barely understood what was happening until the end when story revealed the inner core of its truth. At that moment, I knew that the film had changed my life and my perceptions. This was the first in Angelopoulos’ Trilogy of Borders.
‘Suspended Step of the Stork’
As of this writing, two films have screened thus far: Landscape in the Mist (European Film Award for Best Film), the last of his Trilogy of Silence. It was followed the next week by Eternity and a Day (Palme d’Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival), the last of his Trilogy of Borders. Having seen these two, so many questions arose for me that I knew I needed to find out more about Angelopoulos himself.
Why these trilogies? Does he always work in threes, making trilogies and why?
Why were both Eternity and a Day and Landscape in the Mist about a little boy Alexander who has no parents, and most particularly no father? Is Alexander in all his films?
What’s with the troupe of actors which keeps showing up in Landscape in the Mist and is central to The Traveling Players his Trilogy of History?
Why are there always three yellow jacketed bicycle riders in the two films I have so far seen?
Why is there always a wedding — sometimes happy, sometimes not so?
Critic Andrew Horton calls Angelopoulos’ films, “Cinema of Contemplation” which does give the context within which one derives the full impact of his stories, more through contemplation than through following a plot line which nevertheless exists. Angelopoulos believed cinema was creating a new form of universal communication. He also saw his own life as a continuation of Greek history from the beginning of time, a theme he reiterates in his films. To absorb such a large picture, one must be in a contemplative state of mind. The films provide a framework for meditation. And his end shot is more than once a line of yellow jacketed repair workers climbing telephone poles that extend beyond the horizon or riding bicycles to beyond the frame of what we see. I must see the rest of the films to know what these repairmen are doing to extend travel and communication beyond borders.
Angelopoulos views the world through the eyes of a child named Alexander who in Landscape in the Mist is about five and is traveling across Greece to Germany with his ten year old sister Voula to find the father they have never known. They recognize they are part of a story with no end. The only adult words describing their odyssey are in the bedtime story Voula tells Alexander; in the introduction to a staged play that the friend they find on the road, named Orestes, describes to them; and in the first words spoken by a singing actor as the traveling theater troupe is about to start performing the play. But, as in the bedtime story and in Orestes’ description, the play, seemingly interrupted by other events, never finishes. The story starts, “in the beginning is darkness, then comes light, then the sea and sky, then the plants and trees.” When his sister feels fear for what lies ahead, Alexander comforts her with his promise to continue telling the story that never finishes. Through the mist, they find the tree, so vaguely described by Orestes as he shows them blank frames of a 35mm piece of film he picks up and so materially there in front of them when they cross the last border to Germany. They hug its trunk in relief and renewed trust in the will of some higher order that they have arrived safely.
Landscape in the Mist is the last of the Trilogy of Silence, haunting, incisive, intimate, and deeply moving odysseys that navigate through consciousness, myth, and memory. Landscape in the Mist represents the “silence of God”. The other two parts are the “silence of history” in Voyage to Cythera (1984) and the “silence of love” in The Beekeeper [1986).
In Eternity and a Day, the child in himself, Alexander (Bruno Ganz), has become a great writer and poet who is now facing his final days of a fatal illness. Putting his affairs in order and bidding farewell to family and friends before admitting himself into the hospital where he will await death, he asks “How long is tomorrow?” and is told, it is “eternity and a day.” He finds himself paired on his last day with a child, an Albanian illegal of Greek origin who fears the future with no adult to guide him into an unknown land across the sea. The poet himself lacks to words to finish his own work let alone help the child with his fears and his own journey, but his redemption comes from a literal exchange of words through the child which allows him to transcend his life and his emotional distance.
The three words Alexander receives from the Albanian boy are korfulamu, a delicate word for the heart of a flower, a literal ‘word of comfort’ for his physical suffering. The second is xenitis, the feeling of being a stranger everywhere, including with his own beautiful wife Anna (Isabelle Renauld). and daughter. The third is argathini, meaning ‘very late at night’, a metaphor for the ‘twilight’ of his existence.
The story that never finishes is the human odyssey of migrations and crossing borders, both in lands and in our minds as we face unknown futures in landscapes we do not recognize as our own. Angelopoulos’ reality unfolds through the prism of his memories. And he counts himself lucky to have lived consciously within the context of history. His memories are a continuation of the long history of Greece. He was born in 1935 the year before King George II of Greece returned to Rome with his Prime Minister Metaxas who, with the agreement of the king, suspended the parliament and established the quasi-fascist Metaxas regime. He lived through World War II, the subsequent Civil War, and the military dictatorship of 1967–1974.
He sees his films not as psychological studies of characters but as characters’ personal lives within a historical context, of “finding one’s own history within the history of a place.” He considers his political films quite different from those of Costa Gavras’ whose he calls bourgeois.
Starting with The Iliad, The Odyssey, and later the concluding Aeneid, continuing with the classic tretralogies, cycles of three plays by the great playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Angelopoulis likewise writes in trilogies, three tragedies intended to be seen in one sitting, but way too long for most of us modern westerners. The trilogies of Angelopoulos would have greater impact if we could see them sequentially, even if not in one sitting. But the programmers did not see it that way and so we must see each film (which stands on its own) interspersed in what seems to be a random order. Even so, the themes intertwine seamlessly creating a textile of modern Greek myth, thought and insight.
Angelopoulos created Days of ’36 in 1972. It is the first film of what would become his self-described Trilogy of History that also includes The Traveling Players (1975) and Alexander the Great (1980) with an epilogue of The Hunters (1977). (The Greek plays also had epilogues.) That he made the first two films in Greece during the dictatorship required an “imposed silence” and indeed, that is the prevalent element in Days of ’36, the story of the country’s ruling leisure class suppressing the fight of leftist labor. The film begins with the assassination of a labor organizer and ends with a mafiosa-type last word of the ruling class which needs stability at any cost.
In The Traveling Players, Senses of Cinema writes:
It is interesting to note that Angelopoulos uses members of an otherwise anonymous cast of marginalized traveling players as conveyers of contemporary Greek history …: Agamemnon (Stratos Pachis) traces his immigration from Asia Minor to Greece (a reminder of the country’s historically borderless, ethnically diverse population that can be traced back to the Ottoman Empire), Electra (Eva Kotamanidou) chronicles the start of the Civil War after the defeat of the Germans in 1944, and Pylades (Kiriakos Katrivanos) provides a personal account of the torture of political prisoners. In essence, by using the testament of people who are literally transient and homeless (and without identity), Angelopoulos creates a powerful analogy for all Greek people as displaced exiles within their own country.
Again, from Senses of Cinema:
Angelopoulos returned to the theme of the nation’s historically organic, cross-cultural migration in The Travelling Players to examine the the refugee’s resigned sentiment, “We’ve crossed the border and we’re still here. How many borders must we cross to reach home?”, carries through to the makeshift, outdoor cinema in Angelopoulos’ next film, Ulysses’ Gaze, as A arrives for an unauthorized screening of his film. Like the adrift Spyros in The Beekeeper, A’s devastating emotional odyssey through his ancestral homeland is also a personal journey to reconnect with his cultural past, striving to recapture the purity of human vision that has been tainted by romantic loss, artistic controversy, familial estrangement, ideological disillusionment, and the ravages of war.
Regarding the written words of the scripts, Angelopoulos consistently worked with the Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who also frequently collaborated with such celebrated directors as Federico Fellini, Michaelangelo Antonioni (he wrote all of his movies’ scripts) and Francesco Rossi. Guerra consulted on The Dust of Time, cowrote The Weeping Meadow, Eternity and a Day, Ulysses’ Gaze, and wrote The Suspended Step of the Stork, Landscape in the Mist, The Beekeeper and Voyage to Cythera.
Angelopoulos also collaborated regularly with the cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitis and the composer Eleni Karaindrou, both of whom are essential to his works’ impact.
One of the recurring themes of his work is immigration, the flight from homeland and the return, as well as the history of 20th century Greece. Angelopoulos was considered by British film critics Derek Malcolm and David Thomson to be one of the world’s greatest directors.
Angelopoulos died late 24 January 2012, several hours after being involved in an crash while shooting the last film of his latest trilogy on modern Greece, The Other Sea in Athens. On that evening, the filmmaker had been with his crew in the area of Drapetsona, near Piraeus when he was hit by a motorcycle ridden by an off-duty police officer. The crash occurred when Angelopoulos, 76, attempted to cross a busy road. The first two films were The Weeping Meadow (2004)) and The Dust of Time (2008).
As his legacy lives on, it reminds those of us who contemplate time and space that our Western Civilization began when Greece’s voice was raised to express our most primal emotions in its tragedies. Angelopouos’ work, along with the oldest epic cycle and the Greek tragedies, all deal with the aftermath of world shaking wars which are the results of revenge and murder, sex and power wielded by those more powerful than even the king despots of the age, but by the gods themselves (whoever she is).
- 12/18/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Andrew Horton is relatively new to the entertainment industry, but he’s already gotten a bigger break than he could’ve ever imagined. In 2021, he made his major debut in the TV series Jupiter’s Legacy. Although the show isn’t part of the Marvel or DC universes, Jupiter’s Legacy promises to deliver all of the action and excitement that superhero-themed projects are known for. Backed by streaming giant Netflix, the series has already proven that it has the power to take Andrew’s career to new heights. While it hasn’t yet been renewed for a second season, there are a lot of people
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- 6/7/2021
- by Camille Moore
- TVovermind.com
Jupiter's Legacy was cancelled by Netflix earlier this week, and the cast went to social media after the news broke earlier this week. Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter, and Ian Quinlan star in the superhero drama that's based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely.
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- 6/5/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Network: Netflix
Episodes: Eight (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: May 7, 2021
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter, and Ian Quinlan.
TV show description:
A superhero drama series, the Jupiter's Legacy TV show is based on the Image comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely.
After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world's first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes -- hungry to prove their worth -- struggle to live up to their parents' legendary public reputations — and very strict personal standards.
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Episodes: Eight (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: May 7, 2021
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter, and Ian Quinlan.
TV show description:
A superhero drama series, the Jupiter's Legacy TV show is based on the Image comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely.
After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world's first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes -- hungry to prove their worth -- struggle to live up to their parents' legendary public reputations — and very strict personal standards.
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- 6/5/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Josh Duhamel is not pleased with Netflix's handling of his latest series.
The streamer canceled Jupiter's Legacy after a single season earlier this week, less than a month after its launch on the platform.
In response, Duhamel shared a shirtless selfie in character as Sheldon Sampson.
"When you get dumped by @netflix and have to put yourself back out there.... #sexysantasummer," the star captioned his post. "What's up, @hulu?"
Duhamel plays Sheldon Sampson, an aging superhero on the series, which is based on Mark Miller and Frank Quitely's graphic novels.
Sheldon and his band of superheroes have outgrown the life in the series and are now ready to hand over the responsibilities to a fresh crop of superheroes.
The new crop included Sheldon’s son Brandon (Andrew Horton) and his daughter Chloe (Elena Kampouris), but it was evident that the kids are not exactly ready for such a big challenge.
The streamer canceled Jupiter's Legacy after a single season earlier this week, less than a month after its launch on the platform.
In response, Duhamel shared a shirtless selfie in character as Sheldon Sampson.
"When you get dumped by @netflix and have to put yourself back out there.... #sexysantasummer," the star captioned his post. "What's up, @hulu?"
Duhamel plays Sheldon Sampson, an aging superhero on the series, which is based on Mark Miller and Frank Quitely's graphic novels.
Sheldon and his band of superheroes have outgrown the life in the series and are now ready to hand over the responsibilities to a fresh crop of superheroes.
The new crop included Sheldon’s son Brandon (Andrew Horton) and his daughter Chloe (Elena Kampouris), but it was evident that the kids are not exactly ready for such a big challenge.
- 6/4/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Is the original generation truly ready to give up the spotlight in the first season of the Jupiter's Legacy TV show on Netflix? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Jupiter's Legacy is cancelled or renewed for season two. Netflix and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the first season episodes of Jupiter's Legacy here. Status Update Below.
A Netflix superhero drama series, the Jupiter's Legacy TV show is based on the Image comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. The show stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter, and Ian Quinlan. After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world's first...
A Netflix superhero drama series, the Jupiter's Legacy TV show is based on the Image comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. The show stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter, and Ian Quinlan. After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world's first...
- 6/3/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Netflix’s decision to cancel Jupiter’s Legacy after just one season has left at least one cast member lamenting what could’ve been.
“I’m gutted,” bemoaned co-star Andrew Horton (Aka Brandon Sampson) on Instagram early Thursday. “Jupiter’s Legacy was a once in a lifetime experience, and one I will never forget. I’m sad and sorry that we don’t get to continue this journey. I feel as though we had barely scratched the surface with this one, but as the inimitable Jim Carey once said. “That’s the way the cookie crumbles.'”
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“I’m gutted,” bemoaned co-star Andrew Horton (Aka Brandon Sampson) on Instagram early Thursday. “Jupiter’s Legacy was a once in a lifetime experience, and one I will never forget. I’m sad and sorry that we don’t get to continue this journey. I feel as though we had barely scratched the surface with this one, but as the inimitable Jim Carey once said. “That’s the way the cookie crumbles.'”
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- 6/3/2021
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Jupiter's Legacy will not be returning to Netflix for a second season, it has been announced.
Deadline is reporting that the series has been canceled, and the cast has all been released.
The news comes less than a month after the premiere of the opening season of the adaptation of Mark Millar and Frank Quitely's graphic novels.
While Jupiter's Legacy is very much dead, a spinoff titled Supercrooks is in the works.
The series focuses on super villains and will take place in the same universe as the canceled series, so that's a positive, we guess.
Supercrooks centers on a “ragtag gang of super-villains, con-artists, petty thieves and leg-breakers who all band together for the heist of the century and the most outrageous crime story you’ve ever seen in your life," reads the logline.
"Crime pays and they’re going to prove it. Some people just want to...
Deadline is reporting that the series has been canceled, and the cast has all been released.
The news comes less than a month after the premiere of the opening season of the adaptation of Mark Millar and Frank Quitely's graphic novels.
While Jupiter's Legacy is very much dead, a spinoff titled Supercrooks is in the works.
The series focuses on super villains and will take place in the same universe as the canceled series, so that's a positive, we guess.
Supercrooks centers on a “ragtag gang of super-villains, con-artists, petty thieves and leg-breakers who all band together for the heist of the century and the most outrageous crime story you’ve ever seen in your life," reads the logline.
"Crime pays and they’re going to prove it. Some people just want to...
- 6/3/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Netflix has grounded another TV show. The streaming service has cancelled the Jupiter's Legacy series so there won't be a second season. The first season was released less than a month ago.
A superhero drama series, the Jupiter's Legacy TV show is based on the Image comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. The show stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter, and Ian Quinlan. After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world's first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes -- hungry to prove their worth -- struggle to live up to their parents' legendary public reputations and very strict personal standards. The story spans decades and navigates the complex dynamics of family, power,...
A superhero drama series, the Jupiter's Legacy TV show is based on the Image comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. The show stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter, and Ian Quinlan. After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world's first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes -- hungry to prove their worth -- struggle to live up to their parents' legendary public reputations and very strict personal standards. The story spans decades and navigates the complex dynamics of family, power,...
- 6/3/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
"Jupiter's Legacy", the live-action adaptation of the Image Comics superhero comic book title by Mark Millar, starring Jess Salgueiro, Jaime Slater and Leslie Bibb, has been killed by Netflix after one season:
'Sheldon Sampson' (Josh Duhamel), aka 'The Utopian' is the leader of superhero team 'The Union'.
"But times have changed, and he doesn't understand the polarized world we live in. Or understand his own family.
'Walter Sampson (Ben Daniels), aka 'Brain-Wave' is Sheldon’s older brother. A man of vast intellect and cunning who, unlike Sheldon, isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
'Grace Sampson' (Leslie Bibb) aka 'Lady Liberty' is Sheldon's wife and one of the most powerful heroes on the planet. She doesn't always agree with Sheldon, but strives to balance his ideals with the reality of the modern, often violent, world they live in.
'Chloe Sampson' (Elena Kampouris) is Grace and Sheldon's daughter. Rejecting everything her parents stand for,...
'Sheldon Sampson' (Josh Duhamel), aka 'The Utopian' is the leader of superhero team 'The Union'.
"But times have changed, and he doesn't understand the polarized world we live in. Or understand his own family.
'Walter Sampson (Ben Daniels), aka 'Brain-Wave' is Sheldon’s older brother. A man of vast intellect and cunning who, unlike Sheldon, isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
'Grace Sampson' (Leslie Bibb) aka 'Lady Liberty' is Sheldon's wife and one of the most powerful heroes on the planet. She doesn't always agree with Sheldon, but strives to balance his ideals with the reality of the modern, often violent, world they live in.
'Chloe Sampson' (Elena Kampouris) is Grace and Sheldon's daughter. Rejecting everything her parents stand for,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
“Jupiter’s Legacy” is done after one season, but Netflix is not done with the superheroic world created by Mark Millar. In a statement on Twitter, Millar said that they’ve effectively ended the version of the show that premiered last month in favor of a “Supercrooks” series, which centers on the villains of that same fictional universe.
The series has an official order from the streaming, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. “Supercrooks” is being envisioned as the next chapter in the “Jupiter’s Legacy” franchise.
“We’ve made the tough call of letting our incredible cast out of their show commitment,” Millar said. The cast for “Jupiter’s Legacy” included Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Elena Kampouris, Matt Lanter, Andrew Horton and Ben Daniels.
There is already a “Supercrooks” anime series that will debut later this year.
Here’s Millar’s full statement: “I’m really proud of what...
The series has an official order from the streaming, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. “Supercrooks” is being envisioned as the next chapter in the “Jupiter’s Legacy” franchise.
“We’ve made the tough call of letting our incredible cast out of their show commitment,” Millar said. The cast for “Jupiter’s Legacy” included Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Elena Kampouris, Matt Lanter, Andrew Horton and Ben Daniels.
There is already a “Supercrooks” anime series that will debut later this year.
Here’s Millar’s full statement: “I’m really proud of what...
- 6/2/2021
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Jupiter’s Legacy will be short-lived: Netflix has cancelled the eight-episode adaptation of Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s graphic novels less than a month after the premiere of Season 1.
According to Deadline, however, the streamer is keeping the franchise alive via Supercrooks, a new super villain-themed series set in the Jupiter’s Legacy universe.
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According to Deadline, however, the streamer is keeping the franchise alive via Supercrooks, a new super villain-themed series set in the Jupiter’s Legacy universe.
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- 6/2/2021
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
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What's This TV Show About?
Streaming on the Netflix subscription service, the Jupiter's Legacy TV show is based on the Image comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. The show stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter, and Ian Quinlan. After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world's first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions...
Will the kids outshine the parents? Has the Jupiter's Legacy TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on Netflix? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Jupiter's Legacy, season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
Streaming on the Netflix subscription service, the Jupiter's Legacy TV show is based on the Image comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. The show stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter, and Ian Quinlan. After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world's first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions...
- 5/10/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains light spoilers for “Jupiter’s Legacy,” but really just the end of the first episode.]
When Paragon smashed in Blackstar’s brain, he broke my brain, too.
The premiere of “Jupiter’s Legacy” ends exactly as expected: with a climactic battle between our newly introduced heroes and a seemingly unstoppable supervillain. Set high on a grassy hilltop safely away from innocent bystanders, dozens of caped crusaders use their respective powers to put down a raging behemoth baddie by the name of Blackstar (Tyler Mane). Lady Liberty (Leslie Bibb) tries flying at him really fast and ends up grounded, face first. The Flare (Tenika Davis) shoots fireballs that do less damage than a water balloon, and Tectonic (Stephen Oyoung) erupts the Earth under Blackstar’s feet, amounting to little more than a detoxifying mud-bath.
The scene serves as both a battle royale and a short-hand introduction to each hero’s abilities, but any grasp on...
When Paragon smashed in Blackstar’s brain, he broke my brain, too.
The premiere of “Jupiter’s Legacy” ends exactly as expected: with a climactic battle between our newly introduced heroes and a seemingly unstoppable supervillain. Set high on a grassy hilltop safely away from innocent bystanders, dozens of caped crusaders use their respective powers to put down a raging behemoth baddie by the name of Blackstar (Tyler Mane). Lady Liberty (Leslie Bibb) tries flying at him really fast and ends up grounded, face first. The Flare (Tenika Davis) shoots fireballs that do less damage than a water balloon, and Tectonic (Stephen Oyoung) erupts the Earth under Blackstar’s feet, amounting to little more than a detoxifying mud-bath.
The scene serves as both a battle royale and a short-hand introduction to each hero’s abilities, but any grasp on...
- 5/7/2021
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
In the opening scene of Netflix’s new superhero drama Jupiter’s Legacy, three kids run around a backyard playing superhero — a familiar moment given a twist when we see that one of them has actual superpowers. Then the subject of their role-play, the iconic Utopian (Josh Duhamel), who happens to be their dad, flies down to scold his daughter Chloe for taking things too far.
“We have these powers for a reason,” he lectures. “And with great power comes—”
“Great responsibility,” Chloe interjects.
“No,” he says, thrown, before admitting, “Well,...
“We have these powers for a reason,” he lectures. “And with great power comes—”
“Great responsibility,” Chloe interjects.
“No,” he says, thrown, before admitting, “Well,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Mark Millar explains why the first season serves as an eight-episode pilot of sorts
(The following story contains spoilers for the first season of Netflix’s “Jupiter’s Legacy”)
“Jupiter’s Legacy,” Netflix’s superhero epic from Mark Millar, has a lot of story to get through, given that it spans multiple generations of superpowered people over the course of 90 years. And the eight-episode Season 1, which debuted Friday, only scratches the surface of Millar’s sprawling comic book story.
That’s largely because half of each episode is dedicated to tracking the origin of Josh Duhamel’s Sheldon Sampson, aka The Utopian, and his soon-to-be-superpowered friends who make up The Union. The group’s backstory — which begins with the Stock Market crash of 1929 and ends with their journey to a mysterious island where aliens grant them special abilities — is only a very small part of the comic books, which mostly focus on...
(The following story contains spoilers for the first season of Netflix’s “Jupiter’s Legacy”)
“Jupiter’s Legacy,” Netflix’s superhero epic from Mark Millar, has a lot of story to get through, given that it spans multiple generations of superpowered people over the course of 90 years. And the eight-episode Season 1, which debuted Friday, only scratches the surface of Millar’s sprawling comic book story.
That’s largely because half of each episode is dedicated to tracking the origin of Josh Duhamel’s Sheldon Sampson, aka The Utopian, and his soon-to-be-superpowered friends who make up The Union. The group’s backstory — which begins with the Stock Market crash of 1929 and ends with their journey to a mysterious island where aliens grant them special abilities — is only a very small part of the comic books, which mostly focus on...
- 5/7/2021
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
This article is presented by:
Superheroes have a long history. After flying onto the scene more than eight decades ago, led by Superman, along with fellow octogenarians Batman, Wonder Woman, and Captain America, the pantheon of capes-and-tights characters has expanded to include countless more. And as legendary creators made their mark across decades, the origins and powers of these icons transformed almost as frequently as their costumes.
Meanwhile, the superhero team The Union, from the comic book saga Jupiter’s Legacy, have 90 years of consistent fictional history, with a singular overarching story, envisioned by one man: Mark Millar.
After discovering both Superman and Spider-Man comics the same day, at the age of four in Scotland (where he grew up), the now 51-year-old writer would go on to make a significant impact on the superpowered set. But he wanted his own pantheon.
And with Jupiter’s Legacy, Mark Millar has created a long...
Superheroes have a long history. After flying onto the scene more than eight decades ago, led by Superman, along with fellow octogenarians Batman, Wonder Woman, and Captain America, the pantheon of capes-and-tights characters has expanded to include countless more. And as legendary creators made their mark across decades, the origins and powers of these icons transformed almost as frequently as their costumes.
Meanwhile, the superhero team The Union, from the comic book saga Jupiter’s Legacy, have 90 years of consistent fictional history, with a singular overarching story, envisioned by one man: Mark Millar.
After discovering both Superman and Spider-Man comics the same day, at the age of four in Scotland (where he grew up), the now 51-year-old writer would go on to make a significant impact on the superpowered set. But he wanted his own pantheon.
And with Jupiter’s Legacy, Mark Millar has created a long...
- 5/7/2021
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: “What’s wonderful about TV shows, we can go so deep and flesh out so much more with meat on the backbone,” exclaims Mark Millar of the adaption of his Jupiter’s Legacy comics to a Netflix series. “You know, characters can have a few pages that can take up an hour’s television time and I love that,” the executive producer adds. “I love the fact we were able to make something so crazy.”
Shifting from the 1930s to the present day and over the generations literally and figuratively, the super powered Jupiter’s Legacy is the first of a series of projects that Millar and the streamer have been planning since Netflix bought the Superman: Red Son author’s Millarworld imprint a few years ago.
Debuting tomorrow, the eight-episode series stars Josh Duhamel as Sheldon Sampson/The Utopian, Leslie Bibb as Grace Sampson/Lady Liberty, Crown alum Ben Daniels...
Shifting from the 1930s to the present day and over the generations literally and figuratively, the super powered Jupiter’s Legacy is the first of a series of projects that Millar and the streamer have been planning since Netflix bought the Superman: Red Son author’s Millarworld imprint a few years ago.
Debuting tomorrow, the eight-episode series stars Josh Duhamel as Sheldon Sampson/The Utopian, Leslie Bibb as Grace Sampson/Lady Liberty, Crown alum Ben Daniels...
- 5/6/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
This article is presented by:
Despite the fact that his career is a fairly young one, Andrew Horton is being faced with dramatic challenges on Jupiter’s Legacy, not the least of which stems from the fact that his character, Brandon Sampson (aka Paragon) is the son of the world’s greatest heroes, the Utopian (Josh Duhamel) and Lady Liberty (Lesie Bibb). The good news is that he’s had no problem rising to the meta-human challenge.
Besides starring in the short films Ladies First and Breach, Horton made a guest appearance on the TV series Doctors and in the films It Came from the Desert and How to Talk to Girls at Parties. As he reveals in the following chat, he’s fully embracing the opportunity that Brandon and Jupiter’s Legacy is giving him.
Who Is Paragon?
Name: Brandon Sampson
Alter Ego: Paragon
Powers And Abilities: Telekinesis, which...
Despite the fact that his career is a fairly young one, Andrew Horton is being faced with dramatic challenges on Jupiter’s Legacy, not the least of which stems from the fact that his character, Brandon Sampson (aka Paragon) is the son of the world’s greatest heroes, the Utopian (Josh Duhamel) and Lady Liberty (Lesie Bibb). The good news is that he’s had no problem rising to the meta-human challenge.
Besides starring in the short films Ladies First and Breach, Horton made a guest appearance on the TV series Doctors and in the films It Came from the Desert and How to Talk to Girls at Parties. As he reveals in the following chat, he’s fully embracing the opportunity that Brandon and Jupiter’s Legacy is giving him.
Who Is Paragon?
Name: Brandon Sampson
Alter Ego: Paragon
Powers And Abilities: Telekinesis, which...
- 5/2/2021
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
This article is presented by Netflix.
By now, you probably already know that we have a quarterly print magazine. A quarterly print mag that has a new issue dropping on April 27 with an action-packed and star-studded The Suicide Squad cover story. But did you know that our subscribers and the thousands of fans picking up Den of Geek in one of the 106 independent comic shops across the United States will also get a bonus issue of Den of Geek, polybagged with our regular issue?
It’s true! In paid partnership with Netflix, we’re also taking you behind-the-scenes of Jupiter’s Legacy in a special 32-page magazine that gives you an insider’s look at your next streaming superhero TV obsession. Den of Geek Special Edition: Jupiter’s Legacy is an “everything you need to know” guide to this massive superhero epic, tracing its life from its genesis as a comic book...
By now, you probably already know that we have a quarterly print magazine. A quarterly print mag that has a new issue dropping on April 27 with an action-packed and star-studded The Suicide Squad cover story. But did you know that our subscribers and the thousands of fans picking up Den of Geek in one of the 106 independent comic shops across the United States will also get a bonus issue of Den of Geek, polybagged with our regular issue?
It’s true! In paid partnership with Netflix, we’re also taking you behind-the-scenes of Jupiter’s Legacy in a special 32-page magazine that gives you an insider’s look at your next streaming superhero TV obsession. Den of Geek Special Edition: Jupiter’s Legacy is an “everything you need to know” guide to this massive superhero epic, tracing its life from its genesis as a comic book...
- 4/26/2021
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
The upcoming live-action superhero TV series "Jupiter's Legacy" adapts the Image Comics title, starring Jess Salgueiro, Jaime Slater and Leslie Bibb, streaming May 7, 2021 on Netflix:
'Sheldon Sampson' (Josh Duhamel), aka 'The Utopian' is the leader of superhero team 'The Union'.
"But times have changed, and he doesn't understand the polarized world we live in. Or understand his own family.
'Walter Sampson (Ben Daniels), aka 'Brain-Wave' is Sheldon’s older brother. A man of vast intellect and cunning who, unlike Sheldon, isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
'Grace Sampson' (Leslie Bibb) aka 'Lady Liberty' is Sheldon's wife and one of the most powerful heroes on the planet. She doesn't always agree with Sheldon, but strives to balance his ideals with the reality of the modern, often violent, world they live in.
'Chloe Sampson' (Elena Kampouris) is Grace and Sheldon's daughter. Rejecting everything her parents stand for,...
'Sheldon Sampson' (Josh Duhamel), aka 'The Utopian' is the leader of superhero team 'The Union'.
"But times have changed, and he doesn't understand the polarized world we live in. Or understand his own family.
'Walter Sampson (Ben Daniels), aka 'Brain-Wave' is Sheldon’s older brother. A man of vast intellect and cunning who, unlike Sheldon, isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
'Grace Sampson' (Leslie Bibb) aka 'Lady Liberty' is Sheldon's wife and one of the most powerful heroes on the planet. She doesn't always agree with Sheldon, but strives to balance his ideals with the reality of the modern, often violent, world they live in.
'Chloe Sampson' (Elena Kampouris) is Grace and Sheldon's daughter. Rejecting everything her parents stand for,...
- 4/13/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Jupiter’s Legacy Trailer — Netflix‘s Jupiter’s Legacy (2021) TV show trailer has been released. The Jupiter’s Legacy trailer stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Matt Lanter, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Ian Quinlan, Tyler Mane, and Mike Wade. Crew Charlotte Brändström, Christopher J. Byrne, Marc Jobst, and Steven S. DeKnight directed episodes [...]
Continue reading: Jupiter’S Legacy Trailer: Superhero Josh Duhamel Looks to His Children to Protect the World in Netflix’s 2021 TV Series...
Continue reading: Jupiter’S Legacy Trailer: Superhero Josh Duhamel Looks to His Children to Protect the World in Netflix’s 2021 TV Series...
- 4/9/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Netflix has launched a new trailer for the upcoming superhero series ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’.
Based on the graphic novels by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Jupiter’s Legacy, the series follows a bunch of superheroes After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world’s first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes, hungry to prove their worth, struggle to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.
Sang Kyu Kim serves as showrunner and executive producer for the series that stars Josh Duhamel as Sheldon aka “The Utopian”, Leslie Bibb as Grace aka “Lady Liberty”, Ben Daniels as Walter aka “Brainwave”, Andrew Horton as Brandon aka “Paragon”, Elena Kampouris as Chloe Sampson, Matt Lanter as George aka “Sky Fox” and Mike Wade as Fitz aka “The Flare”.
Also in trailers – “I’ve lived a...
Based on the graphic novels by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Jupiter’s Legacy, the series follows a bunch of superheroes After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world’s first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes, hungry to prove their worth, struggle to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.
Sang Kyu Kim serves as showrunner and executive producer for the series that stars Josh Duhamel as Sheldon aka “The Utopian”, Leslie Bibb as Grace aka “Lady Liberty”, Ben Daniels as Walter aka “Brainwave”, Andrew Horton as Brandon aka “Paragon”, Elena Kampouris as Chloe Sampson, Matt Lanter as George aka “Sky Fox” and Mike Wade as Fitz aka “The Flare”.
Also in trailers – “I’ve lived a...
- 4/7/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Josh Duhamel is a tough act to follow.
That's the main message to take from the full-length trailer for Netflix's Jupiter's Legacy.
Duhamel plays Sheldon Sampson, an aging superhero on the series, which is based on Mark Miller and Frank Quitely's graphic novels.
Sheldon and his band of superheroes have outgrown the life and are now ready to hand over the responsibilities to a fresh crop of superheroes.
If the trailer is any indication, it's not going to be an easy task.
The new crop includes Sheldon’s son Brandon (Andrew Horton) and his daughter Chloe (Elena Kampouris), but it's evident that the kids are not exactly ready for such a big challenge.
“No one can live up to the ideal,” Chloe says in the trailer. “Not even Dad.”
Sheldon worries, “they’re not even close to being ready," and just like that, we have a convincing hook for the series.
That's the main message to take from the full-length trailer for Netflix's Jupiter's Legacy.
Duhamel plays Sheldon Sampson, an aging superhero on the series, which is based on Mark Miller and Frank Quitely's graphic novels.
Sheldon and his band of superheroes have outgrown the life and are now ready to hand over the responsibilities to a fresh crop of superheroes.
If the trailer is any indication, it's not going to be an easy task.
The new crop includes Sheldon’s son Brandon (Andrew Horton) and his daughter Chloe (Elena Kampouris), but it's evident that the kids are not exactly ready for such a big challenge.
“No one can live up to the ideal,” Chloe says in the trailer. “Not even Dad.”
Sheldon worries, “they’re not even close to being ready," and just like that, we have a convincing hook for the series.
- 4/7/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Netflix has lifted the cowl on “Jupiter’s Legacy,” the streaming service’s upcoming television adaptation of Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s superhero comic book series. The streamer revealed the trailer for the show on Wednesday. The plot of streamer’s eight-episode “Jupiter’s Legacy” is derived from Millar’s comic book series, which was first published in 2013. The original comic book, the plot of which spanned decades, centered on the world’s first generation of superheroes and their children, whom are expected to carry on their parents’ legacy.
Much like Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s “The Boys” (and Eric Kripke’s ongoing television adaptation for Amazon Prime Video), the original “Jupiter’s Legacy” carved a niche for itself in a crowded genre by using superheroes to examine social, political, and economic issues in the United States. The new trailer for Netflix’s adaptation offers a look at the series’ heroes,...
Much like Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s “The Boys” (and Eric Kripke’s ongoing television adaptation for Amazon Prime Video), the original “Jupiter’s Legacy” carved a niche for itself in a crowded genre by using superheroes to examine social, political, and economic issues in the United States. The new trailer for Netflix’s adaptation offers a look at the series’ heroes,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
Netflix released a trailer for its upcoming superhero series “Jupiter’s Legacy,” premiering globally on May 7.
The show follows the children of the first generation of superheroes, hungry to prove their worth but struggling to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations. The cast features Josh Duhamel, Ben Daniels, Leslie Bibb, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter and Ian Quinlan. Mark Millar, Frank Quietly, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Dan McDermott, Steven S. DeKnight, James Middleton and Sang Kyu Kim executive produce.
Also in today’s TV news roundup, the third season of “Tyler Perry’s Sistas” will premiere June 9 on BET. The one-hour drama will pick up right where the Season 2 finale left off, in the aftermath of Gary (Chido Nwokocha) being shot. The show follows a group of single Black women as they navigate love, careers and friendship in their 30s, with a cast that includes Kj Smith, Mignon,...
The show follows the children of the first generation of superheroes, hungry to prove their worth but struggling to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations. The cast features Josh Duhamel, Ben Daniels, Leslie Bibb, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter and Ian Quinlan. Mark Millar, Frank Quietly, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Dan McDermott, Steven S. DeKnight, James Middleton and Sang Kyu Kim executive produce.
Also in today’s TV news roundup, the third season of “Tyler Perry’s Sistas” will premiere June 9 on BET. The one-hour drama will pick up right where the Season 2 finale left off, in the aftermath of Gary (Chido Nwokocha) being shot. The show follows a group of single Black women as they navigate love, careers and friendship in their 30s, with a cast that includes Kj Smith, Mignon,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Haley Bosselman and Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix released the first trailer on Wednesday for Mark Millar’s “Jupiter’s Legacy” series, starring Josh Duhamel as an elderly superhero.
Based on the series of graphic novels by Millar and Frank Quitely, the eight-episode adaptation centers on the second generation of superheroes, who “struggle to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.”
Duhamel stars as Sheldon Sampson, a.k.a. The Utopian, the leader of the first generation of heroes who, according to the trailer, has been on the job for nearly a century and only has a terrible relationship with his kids to show for it.
Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter and Ian Quinlan also star.
Millar and Quitely executive produce alongside Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Dan McDermott, Steven S. DeKnight, James Middleton and Sang Kyu Kim. “Daredevil” boss Steven S. DeKnight was initially set to serve as showrunner,...
Based on the series of graphic novels by Millar and Frank Quitely, the eight-episode adaptation centers on the second generation of superheroes, who “struggle to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.”
Duhamel stars as Sheldon Sampson, a.k.a. The Utopian, the leader of the first generation of heroes who, according to the trailer, has been on the job for nearly a century and only has a terrible relationship with his kids to show for it.
Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade, Matt Lanter and Ian Quinlan also star.
Millar and Quitely executive produce alongside Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Dan McDermott, Steven S. DeKnight, James Middleton and Sang Kyu Kim. “Daredevil” boss Steven S. DeKnight was initially set to serve as showrunner,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Even superheroes get old… and when they do, a new generation has to step up to take their place.
Netflix has released the first footage from Jupiter’s Legacy, based on Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s graphic novels, which debuts Friday, May 7 on the streamer. And in the trailer — which you can watch below — we see Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas) as aging superhero Sheldon Sampson, who has been saving the world with his super pals for decades. They’re old and gray now, though, and ready to hand over the reins to a fresh set of heroes.
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Netflix has released the first footage from Jupiter’s Legacy, based on Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s graphic novels, which debuts Friday, May 7 on the streamer. And in the trailer — which you can watch below — we see Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas) as aging superhero Sheldon Sampson, who has been saving the world with his super pals for decades. They’re old and gray now, though, and ready to hand over the reins to a fresh set of heroes.
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- 4/7/2021
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming superhero series, Jupiter’s Legacy, which is set to arrive May 7th.
Adding a dash of family drama to the classic superhero formula, the show is centered around a major changing of the guard, as the world’s first superheroes prepare to pass the proverbial torch to the next generation. But that shift, of course, comes with all sorts of angst as the younger heroes must learn to not only harness their powers but live up to the expectations of both their parents and the world.
Adding a dash of family drama to the classic superhero formula, the show is centered around a major changing of the guard, as the world’s first superheroes prepare to pass the proverbial torch to the next generation. But that shift, of course, comes with all sorts of angst as the younger heroes must learn to not only harness their powers but live up to the expectations of both their parents and the world.
- 4/7/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix’s new superteam is in action for the first trailer for Jupiter’s Legacy.
The eight-episode series, which bows May 7, is Netflix’s first series from prolific comic book creator Mark Millar, who sold his comic book imprint Millarworld to the streamer in August 2017.
Jupiter’s Legacy stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade and Matt Lanter. It centers on the world’s first superheroes as they look to their children to pick up their mantle.
The original series debuted in comics in 2013, with art from Frank Quitely, who executive produces alongside Millar, Lorenzo Di ...
The eight-episode series, which bows May 7, is Netflix’s first series from prolific comic book creator Mark Millar, who sold his comic book imprint Millarworld to the streamer in August 2017.
Jupiter’s Legacy stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade and Matt Lanter. It centers on the world’s first superheroes as they look to their children to pick up their mantle.
The original series debuted in comics in 2013, with art from Frank Quitely, who executive produces alongside Millar, Lorenzo Di ...
Netflix’s new superteam is in action for the first trailer for Jupiter’s Legacy.
The eight-episode series, which bows May 7, is Netflix’s first series from prolific comic book creator Mark Millar, who sold his comic book imprint Millarworld to the streamer in August 2017.
Jupiter’s Legacy stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade and Matt Lanter. It centers on the world’s first superheroes as they look to their children to pick up their mantle.
The original series debuted in comics in 2013, with art from Frank Quitely, who executive produces alongside Millar, Lorenzo Di ...
The eight-episode series, which bows May 7, is Netflix’s first series from prolific comic book creator Mark Millar, who sold his comic book imprint Millarworld to the streamer in August 2017.
Jupiter’s Legacy stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Mike Wade and Matt Lanter. It centers on the world’s first superheroes as they look to their children to pick up their mantle.
The original series debuted in comics in 2013, with art from Frank Quitely, who executive produces alongside Millar, Lorenzo Di ...
The new live-action superhero TV series "Jupiter's Legacy" adapts the Image Comics title, starring Jess Salgueiro, Jaime Slater and Leslie Bibb, streaming May 7, 2021 on Netflix:
'Sheldon Sampson' (Josh Duhamel), aka 'The Utopian' is the leader of superhero team 'The Union'.
"But times have changed, and he doesn't understand the polarized world we live in. Or understand his own family.
'Walter Sampson (Ben Daniels), aka 'Brain-Wave' is Sheldon’s older brother. A man of vast intellect and cunning who, unlike Sheldon, isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
'Grace Sampson' (Leslie Bibb) aka 'Lady Liberty' is Sheldon's wife and one of the most powerful heroes on the planet.
"She doesn't always agree with Sheldon, but strives to balance his ideals with the reality of the modern, often violent, world they live in.
'Chloe Sampson' (Elena Kampouris) is Grace and Sheldon's daughter. Rejecting everything her parents stand for,...
'Sheldon Sampson' (Josh Duhamel), aka 'The Utopian' is the leader of superhero team 'The Union'.
"But times have changed, and he doesn't understand the polarized world we live in. Or understand his own family.
'Walter Sampson (Ben Daniels), aka 'Brain-Wave' is Sheldon’s older brother. A man of vast intellect and cunning who, unlike Sheldon, isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
'Grace Sampson' (Leslie Bibb) aka 'Lady Liberty' is Sheldon's wife and one of the most powerful heroes on the planet.
"She doesn't always agree with Sheldon, but strives to balance his ideals with the reality of the modern, often violent, world they live in.
'Chloe Sampson' (Elena Kampouris) is Grace and Sheldon's daughter. Rejecting everything her parents stand for,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Netflix has revealed a bunch of first look images and a video of those images transforming from Frank Quitely’s exclusive sketches for the upcoming superhero series ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’.
Based on the graphic novels by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Jupiter’s Legacy, the series follows a bunch of superheroes After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world’s first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes, hungry to prove their worth, struggle to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.
(L-r) Elena Kampouris as Chloe Sampson Cr. Steve Wilkie/Netflix © 2020 (L-r) Andrew Horton as Brandon Sampson. Cr. Marni Grossman/Netflix © 2020 (L-r) Andrew Horton as Brandon Sampson. Cr. Courtesy Of Netflix/Netflix © 2020 (L-r) Matt Lanter as George Hutchence, Mike Wade as Fitz Small, Josh Duhamel as Sheldon Sampson, Leslie Bibb as Grace Sampson,...
Based on the graphic novels by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Jupiter’s Legacy, the series follows a bunch of superheroes After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world’s first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes, hungry to prove their worth, struggle to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.
(L-r) Elena Kampouris as Chloe Sampson Cr. Steve Wilkie/Netflix © 2020 (L-r) Andrew Horton as Brandon Sampson. Cr. Marni Grossman/Netflix © 2020 (L-r) Andrew Horton as Brandon Sampson. Cr. Courtesy Of Netflix/Netflix © 2020 (L-r) Matt Lanter as George Hutchence, Mike Wade as Fitz Small, Josh Duhamel as Sheldon Sampson, Leslie Bibb as Grace Sampson,...
- 3/2/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix unveiled the trailer for its superhero drama “Jupiter’s Legacy,” and ESPN set the premiere date for docuseries “GOATs: The Greatest of All Time.”
Dates
ESPN will debut three-part docuseries “GOATs: The Greatest of All Time,” exploring star athletes through the lens of veteran sports photographer Walter Iooss, March 7 at 8 p.m. Directed by Kevin Kaufman, the series will celebrate some of the world’s greatest athletes, featuring exclusive interviews with Kobe Bryant, Joe Montana, Derek Jeter, Tiger Woods, Joe Namath, Chris Evert, Ken Griffey Jr., Jack Nicklaus, Caroline Wozniacki and Kelly Slater. The series is produced by Kaufman Films in association with Transform Films & Royal Ventures Studios. Kaufman will executive produce, along with Beth Fraikorn and Joe Dimuro. The series will also air on ABC March 14 at 2 p.m. and will be available on demand following its premiere. Watch a trailer below.
From National Geographic,...
Dates
ESPN will debut three-part docuseries “GOATs: The Greatest of All Time,” exploring star athletes through the lens of veteran sports photographer Walter Iooss, March 7 at 8 p.m. Directed by Kevin Kaufman, the series will celebrate some of the world’s greatest athletes, featuring exclusive interviews with Kobe Bryant, Joe Montana, Derek Jeter, Tiger Woods, Joe Namath, Chris Evert, Ken Griffey Jr., Jack Nicklaus, Caroline Wozniacki and Kelly Slater. The series is produced by Kaufman Films in association with Transform Films & Royal Ventures Studios. Kaufman will executive produce, along with Beth Fraikorn and Joe Dimuro. The series will also air on ABC March 14 at 2 p.m. and will be available on demand following its premiere. Watch a trailer below.
From National Geographic,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- Variety Film + TV
Jupiter’s Legacy First Look TV Show Photographs — Netflix has released first look TV show photographs of Jupiter’s Legacy (2021). The TV show photos feature: Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Matt Lanter, Elena Kampouris, Andrew Horton, Ian Quinlan, Tyler Mane, and Mike Wade. Jupiter’s Legacy First Look TV Show Photographs Josh [...]
Continue reading: Jupiter’S Legacy Photographs: First Look at Mark Millar’s 2021 Superhero Netflix TV Series...
Continue reading: Jupiter’S Legacy Photographs: First Look at Mark Millar’s 2021 Superhero Netflix TV Series...
- 3/1/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
From TorontoFilm.Net, take a look at more new images, plus footage from the live-action superhero TV series "Jupiter's Legacy" (aka "Zeus") adapting the Image Comics title, bt weiter Mark Millar ("Kick-Ass") starring Jess Salgueiro, Jaime Slater and Leslie Bibb, streaming May 7, 2021 on Netflix:
'Sheldon Sampson' (Josh Duhamel), aka 'The Utopian' is the leader of superhero team 'The Union'.
"But times have changed, and he doesn't understand the polarized world we live in. Or understand his own family.
'Walter Sampson (Ben Daniels), aka 'Brain-Wave' is Sheldon’s older brother. A man of vast intellect and cunning who, unlike Sheldon, isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
'Grace Sampson' (Leslie Bibb) aka 'Lady Liberty' is Sheldon's wife and one of the most powerful heroes on the planet.
"She doesn't always agree with Sheldon, but strives to balance his ideals with the reality of the modern, often violent,...
'Sheldon Sampson' (Josh Duhamel), aka 'The Utopian' is the leader of superhero team 'The Union'.
"But times have changed, and he doesn't understand the polarized world we live in. Or understand his own family.
'Walter Sampson (Ben Daniels), aka 'Brain-Wave' is Sheldon’s older brother. A man of vast intellect and cunning who, unlike Sheldon, isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
'Grace Sampson' (Leslie Bibb) aka 'Lady Liberty' is Sheldon's wife and one of the most powerful heroes on the planet.
"She doesn't always agree with Sheldon, but strives to balance his ideals with the reality of the modern, often violent,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
At first glance, comics would appear to be the easiest print medium to adapt into a visual medium like film or television. But as we all know from decades spent watching comic book adaptations that’s not always the case.
There are bound to be subtleties of art, lighting, and movement that visual media could misinterpret or outright miss. With its latest comic adaptation, and its first project from Millarworld, Netflix looks to be striving for as close a visual adaptation as possible. Jupiter’s Legacy will be based on the comic book series of the same new from Mark Millar and artist Frank Quitely. Based on a new first look from Netflix, Quitely’s art will be a major presence on the live-action series. Check out the video below to see what we mean.
Sometimes we like to talk about “storyboards come to life” but in this instance that comparison looks to be particularly apt.
There are bound to be subtleties of art, lighting, and movement that visual media could misinterpret or outright miss. With its latest comic adaptation, and its first project from Millarworld, Netflix looks to be striving for as close a visual adaptation as possible. Jupiter’s Legacy will be based on the comic book series of the same new from Mark Millar and artist Frank Quitely. Based on a new first look from Netflix, Quitely’s art will be a major presence on the live-action series. Check out the video below to see what we mean.
Sometimes we like to talk about “storyboards come to life” but in this instance that comparison looks to be particularly apt.
- 3/1/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Netflix has revealed nothing in the teaser trailer for the upcoming superhero series ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’.
Based on the graphic novels by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Jupiter’s Legacy, the series follows a bunch of superheroes, After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world’s first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes, hungry to prove their worth, struggle to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.
Sang Kyu Kim serves as showrunner and executive producer for the series that stars Josh Duhamel as Sheldon aka “The Utopian”, Leslie Bibb as Grace aka “Lady Liberty”, Ben Daniels as Walter aka “Brainwave”, Andrew Horton as Brandon aka “Paragon”, Elena Kampouris as Chloe Sampson, Matt Lanter as George aka “Sky Fox” and Mike Wade as Fitz aka “The Flare”.
Also in trailers – Steven Yuen...
Based on the graphic novels by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Jupiter’s Legacy, the series follows a bunch of superheroes, After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world’s first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes, hungry to prove their worth, struggle to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.
Sang Kyu Kim serves as showrunner and executive producer for the series that stars Josh Duhamel as Sheldon aka “The Utopian”, Leslie Bibb as Grace aka “Lady Liberty”, Ben Daniels as Walter aka “Brainwave”, Andrew Horton as Brandon aka “Paragon”, Elena Kampouris as Chloe Sampson, Matt Lanter as George aka “Sky Fox” and Mike Wade as Fitz aka “The Flare”.
Also in trailers – Steven Yuen...
- 2/24/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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