Nathan Fillion’s Guy Gardner Is Joining Mister Miracle — His Fourth DCU Project

Nathan Fillion has a fourth DCU credit on the way. Entertainment Weekly reports that he’ll reprise Guy Gardner in DC Studios’ animated Mister Miracle.

That makes four. Fillion played Guy in Superman, returned in Peacemaker season 2, and appears in Lanterns, which premieres Sunday on HBO Max. Now he’s carrying the role into animation.

What is Mister Miracle?

The series adapts Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ Eisner-winning 12-issue miniseries from 2017–18, widely regarded as one of the best DC books of the last decade. King serves as showrunner and executive producer, and he’s writing all eight episodes. Titmouse handles animation.

The story follows Scott Free — the greatest escape artist who ever lived — and his warrior wife Big Barda. Their life on Earth unravels as war breaks out between Apokolips and New Genesis, and Scott’s cruel adoptive father Darkseid appears to have obtained the Anti-Life Equation.

So this isn’t a light spin-off. King’s Mister Miracle is a strange, elancholy book about trauma and escape, and he’s adapting it himself.

Why Guy Gardner fits

King told EW that dropping Guy into that world works better than it should:

“We brought Nathan into Mister Miracle’s show, and doing that, it’s just so wonderful. He brings that energy to every aspect of it. And you would think it would be different tonally from [Lanterns], but it blends because that’s who Guy is. He’s that guy who is over the top. We all know that guy who’s a little bit like that.”

It also confirms something about how James Gunn and Peter Safran are building this universe. Actors keep their characters across mediums — live-action and animation alike. Guy Gardner is becoming DC’s connective tissue, and Fillion is the constant.

When does Mister Miracle come out?

King said in July that the series arrives in 2027. The pilot is finished and the voice cast is hired.

One more note for anyone hoping for a name: Darkseid has been cast, but DC hasn’t revealed who’s playing him. King has only teased that the choice will surprise people.

Two other DC shows just slowed down

EW’s report carried a second piece of news. DC has put Waller and Paradise Lost on the back burner.

Waller, the Viola Davis series, was among the first projects announced for the new DCU. Paradise Lost, the Wonder Woman prequel set on Themyscira, was also part of that initial slate.

Neither is cancelled — EW says both remain in development. But neither is a current priority, which is a meaningful shift for two shows that were once positioned as foundational.

Gunn has repeatedly said nothing moves forward until it’s ready. Right now, Mister Miracle is ready and those two aren’t.