'Jupiter's Legacy' Cast on What Separates Mark Millar's Netflix Series From Other Superhero Stories | Heat Vision Breakdown - video Dailymotion

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The cast of Netflix's 'Jupiter's Legacy,' including Josh Duhamel, Ben Daniels, Leslie Bibb, Matt Lanter, Mike Wade, Ian Quinlan, Tenika Davis, Elena Kampouris and Andrew Horton, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Breakdown all about their new superhero series.

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00:00They're not even close to being ready.

00:06I'm doing everything I can to keep this family from falling apart.

00:11Jupiter's Legacy is the first project to come out of Mark Miller's deal with Netflix,

00:16and he said that he wanted this show to start where other superhero fare ends.

00:20How do you think this show does that,

00:21and what makes it different than other superhero stories we've seen on screen before?

00:24Well, I think this deals with human relatable themes.

00:31You know, what is it like having the responsibility of this so long,

00:35and then looking back on it all and realizing maybe you weren't as present of a father as you should have been,

00:40or this code that you've always, you know, believed in so strongly and lived by

00:45and expected everybody else to live by, suddenly it was being questioned.

00:48You know, there's real, you know, current themes at play,

00:53which I think makes it relatable and a little bit more subversive in a lot of ways.

00:59For one, it comes from the mind of Mark Miller,

01:02and for people who know his work, they know what I mean,

01:05but for people who don't, they're about to find out.

01:07It's, I mean, a lot of people love superhero films,

01:10some people don't because they feel they're a little bit glossy.

01:13This is not that.

01:14This is dark.

01:15This is gritty.

01:15I think the main difference about Jupiter's Legacy is the fact that it really, really focuses on relationships and family dynamics.

01:24The core of our show is, is, is a family drama.

01:29The man I knew was never at home when I was a kid.

01:33Too busy saving the world.

01:35Mark Miller has said that he wanted to tell the greatest superhero story of all time with Jupiter's Legacy.

01:40What do you think makes this the greatest superhero story of all time?

01:43I absolutely love its span and breadth.

01:49I mean, I don't know a huge lot about superheroes,

01:51but what I loved when I read it was that you have these characters in the 1920s,

01:57and you follow this origin story at the same time as you see them how they are in the present day.

02:04Yeah, I just think it's, it's span and breadth and detail and complexity and gray areas.

02:12I just find it endlessly fascinating.

02:14It's the fact that it's focused on all the complex layers of what it means to be a superhero.

02:20We have all of these complex sort of relationships going on that have been intertwined.

02:25I mean, it's traveling through time between, you know, going back into like the 1920s,

02:30right up into the present sort of thing.

02:31So I think it's not just the greatest superhero story of all time.

02:35If I was to liken it to something, it would be more like the Odyssey.

02:39It's that epic journey that we're going on, right?

02:42Traveling through space and time and finally getting to a point where we get to meet us here in the present.

02:46I think there's an epicness to it.

02:49It feels like there is sort of like Greek mythology or Shakespeare or something like that.

02:55It feels like you feel that sort of storytelling and that sort of relationships that everybody,

03:01like you see it in a big level.

03:04And I think also seeing it, you never see people at the beginning and the end.

03:09So I thought that was a really fresh sort of way of looking at it.

03:12And I had never seen anything like that.

03:14There's so much.

03:15I feel like it hits every note in the symphony of superhero genre.

03:19It's not only spectacle and fun and wild ride and humor and all this.

03:23It gets deep.

03:24It gets gritty and intimate in a non-peripheral way that I don't think I've really seen before.

03:27It's really a refreshing kind of approach.

03:29You know, if you look at like the really old classic superhero movies,

03:32it's always like, here's the side of the day, perfect thing, like smile.

03:36Like there's not, you know, we don't pierce the membrane of like,

03:39what is the, like the emotional kryptonite of these characters,

03:42not just the physical kryptonite.

03:44I'm excited to hear more of the feedback for what people think of it

03:47because I do think it is super, super unique.

03:50You do the right thing, somebody dies.

03:54You do the wrong thing, somebody dies.

03:59How much do you know about where the story is going

04:03and could we see it possibly go beyond what we already know from the comics?

04:08Well, yeah, I think anything's possible.

04:10We already know he's writing Jupiter's Requiem,

04:12which I think is coming out in June or July, if I'm not mistaken.

04:16So it's the whole legacy of more than two generations.

04:19I think we're looking at three generations in Jupiter's Requiem.

04:22Well, I will say we're going, we're probably going to go pretty far

04:25because don't forget Mark Miller's coming out with Requiem.

04:29Very soon.

04:30So there's more to come for sure.

04:32And there's been a question that I, when I read the comics

04:35and I've been watching the series is,

04:38why were they chosen?

04:40And why, and what, why were they given these powers?

04:43I've read two copies of Jupiter's Requiem

04:47and it's so exciting what happens to these characters again

04:51and another generation along.

04:53So, yeah, I guess it will be on for as long as people want to watch it.

04:58I'll see you in somewhere else.

05:02Now, once again.

05:04I'll see you in the next game.

05:06I'll see you at the next game.

05:07Bye.

05:08Bye.

05:10Bye.

05:11Bye.

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