The Winter Soldier in the animatedAvengers Assemble.
Aquaman in DC’sThe Death of SupermanandJustice League: Throne of Atlantis.
Venom (we’ll call him an antihero) inUltimate Spider-Man.
Matt Lanter as Skyfox on ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’.Steve Wilkie/Netflix
Skyfox, inJupiter’s Legacyat Netflix.
It’s a character that comes with “a lot of charisma and bravado,” he tells EW.
“I saw a lot of Tony Stark in him.
Josh Duhamel leads the cast of ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’.Netflix
“I think Paul Newman always has a secret.
That makes him really interesting.
I felt George was such an interesting guy.”
Matt Lanter as George/Skyfox on ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’.Marni Grossman/Netflix
There, mysterious events occur that grant them superpowers.
“The world that Mark Millar has created is so vast,” Lanter says.
“It’s multigenerational, really.
That’s what it’s rooted in.
It’s really a human story at the core.
‘Superheroes’ is a secondary thing.
“We’re going to be exposed to a brand-new cast of characters.
I love Batman, I love Spider-Man, I love Wolverine, I love Cyclops.
But we’ve known about them for a long time.
I think it’s really exciting to have some new characters come in.”
When George first appears onJupiter’s Legacy, he’s the embodiment of wealth.
Yet the money and the extravagance masks the man behind it all.
“Even though he seems like a happy-go-lucky guy in the beginning, there’s a deep-rooted loss.”
Jupiter’s Legacyis partly about family, particularly the dynamics between super-parents and their super-children.
Those children being Andrew Horton as Brandon and Elena Kampouris as Chloe.
George is largely without a family, choosing his friends, like Sheldon, to fill that need.
“There’s a hole in his heart where family and love should be,” Lanter says.
“Some of that is covered up by his grandness.
In the comics, this character combination brings George to a dark turn.
Lanter says that makes for “another set of daddy issues.”
Millar speaks ofJupiter’s Legacyas if season 2 has already been green lit.
However, Netflix would not confirm that at this time.
He’s doing his own thing,” Lanter explains.
There are a lot of places we could go with this.”
Withso many other projects in the worksfrom Millar and Millarworld at Netflix, it’s not an implausible reality.
Jupiter’s Legacypremieres Friday on Netflix.
