'Jupiter's Legacy' Season 2: What We Know
05/24/2021 09:42 pm EDT
Millar
The most direct commentary on a Jupiter's Legacy renewal we've gotten so far comes from Millar himself, who gave an interview with ComicBook.com shortly after the premiere. He said: "We know where we're going. I mean the books are a good template, The books are all sitting there for us so we have a very rough plan, but we know it all depends on, not to get too cocky, that the audience responds the way we think they will."
"We feel good about it," he continued. "We feel as if people are going to like this; the response so far has been amazing. So we really feel this has got a lot of likes, I think. So, yeah, we do. I mean, we talk privately all the time about what we'd like to do but nothing can be formal until we get our numbers."
Aggregate
Another important consideration is the critical reception of the show — especially on review aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes. At the time of this writing, the show has a discouraging 37 percent approval rating among critics, but a 72 percent rating among audiences. This might be good news overall since Netflix is sure to weigh audience enjoyment over critical accolades. Still, driving both of those numbers up would be much better.
Adaptation
It's also worth noting that a big part of the reason studios make adaptations of comics or books in the first place is because the story is already there for them to draw on. In the case of Jupiter's Legacy, that means there are ten issues to draw on, plus the spinoff series Jupiter's Circle. Assuming Netflix bought the rights to all of these books, not adapting them would essentially mean wasting the money it has spent to acquire them.
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