Tom King and Mitch Gerads Talk Adapting Mister Miracle for The DCU

The 2017 Mister Miracle series from DC Comics is coming to television soon, with writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads serving as showrunner and producer/character designer, respectively. DC Studios Peter Safran recently announced Mackenzie Davis and Josh Hutcherson as the voices of Mister Miracle and Big Barda, adding more excitement for the upcoming 2027 adult-animation series. I spoke with King and Gerads earlier this year about adapting the series for television. Check out our conversation below.

This conversation originally took place on August 28th, 2026, at FanExpo Canada.

How exciting is it to see your version of Mister Miracle be adapted?

Mitch Gerads: I mean, the coolest part is we're adapting it. Tom and I are running the whole thing. I mean, Tom's the showrunner. I'm a producer; I did a bunch of character design stuff.

We're in daily meetings about voice actors and sound effects and visuals and, you know, the timing and cutting of every episode. It's been a really cool experience, and the show is so flippin' good. Like, I know I would say that either way, but I actually really mean it.

Tom King: I mean, I can say I'm in love with it; it's turned out better than I ever hoped. Seeing it built, the actors are utterly brilliant. James Gunn and Peter Safran, the head of DC Studios, have a lot of geniuses, but one of the big ones is casting. I mean, look at what Aaron Pierre is doing, what Kyle Chandler is doing, what David Corenswet is doing, and what Millie Alcott is doing. They find the right people for the right roles, and Barda and Scott are just so perfect and bring so much beauty to this project and just create an incredible couple that they're a joy spending every day with, and you would think I'd get tired of it because every day, you know, 24 hours a day I'm working on it, but because of the incredible work the actors are doing in their chemistry, it just, it makes it, it's a pleasure.

Was that something that you were like, you ever imagined would happen?

MG: When Tom and I made the book, and right before it came out, we did not think it was gonna be a big thing. We thought it was gonna be our little side thing that some people would read, and that'd be fun… we just wanted to tell the story. Issue one came out, and it sold out immediately, so that was a wild ride to begin with. And then for it to be adapted in this way, where they wanted us to lead it, it wasn't like we had to, like, argue with them about it. They wanted it, and it's been so awesome adapting it the way that we want to, and we see it. And then the extra added fun of making it part of the DCU has been, I mean, a little kid's dream. Oh my god, the whole thing.

It works kind of exactly like you would think, and absolutely not what you would think. Yeah, every day has been this learning thing about how animation works, and how cool it is, and because of my involvement in Mister. Miracle, I've got to do other animation stuff, like key art for Harley Quinn and Kite Man, and the new season of Batman: Caped Crusader, and so yeah, it's been really cool to learn.

And literally, we have a weekly meeting, if not two or three times a week, where we meet with all the people from Titmouse, who are the French studio working on it, and we talk through whatever's being discussed that week, and constantly Tom and I are like, “so, I've got a really dumb question.” They're just explaining how animation works to us. But yeah, it's been awesome.

TK: It blows my mind. I'm just so grateful. Nobody picked up Mister Miracle because they saw it on the shelf and were like, “Oh, I want to read it.” It exists because comic book shop owners and workers and the guys who put bags and boards on comics read it in the shop and recommended it, and they made that book into everything it's become, and so I'm just so grateful for that first wave from the comic shops saying, “Take a chance on this very bizarre take on a beautiful Jack Kirby character.”

When you got on board with what's going on in the DCU, did you want to prioritize Mister Miracle? Or how did those conversations happen? 

TK: Mister. Miracle is one of my favorite things I've ever written, maybe my favorite. But, I never wanted to revisit it, I never wanted to write a sequel to it, as I kind of felt like it stood on its own.

I worked with Ava DuVernay on a Mister Miracle movie for a year, but it wasn’t based on the comic book. I’ve kind of given up that anyone would ever sort of translate it. And then at the very beginning of my journey, Peter Girardi, who's at Warner Brothers Animation and is a great producer, called me and was like, he loved the book and said: “You know, we could do like the whole thing in animation without compromise and do these big adult themes in a new way, in a new format that, you know, would sort of take a risk, that an American audience would accept basically an HBO nine o'clock show in animated form.” And I was like,” That's insane…” And it was even before Invincible came out; it's like nobody's done that before. He's like, “Let's be the first.” Anytime I get super scared of something, don't think it can happen- that's when I say yes,