Millarworld Sets ‘Sharkey the Bounty Hunter’ as Third Netflix Comic Book Collaboration

By Joe Otterson

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Netflix and Millarworld have set their third comic book collaboration: “Sharkey the Bounty Hunter.”

The new project hails from writer and creator Mark Millar, along with comic book artist Simone Bianchi.

Set in a new sci-fi universe, Sharkey is a blue-collar bounty-hunter tracking criminals across the galaxy in his converted, rocket-powered ice-cream truck. Aided and abetted by his ten-year-old partner, he’s out for the biggest bounty of his career. “Sharkey the Bounty Hunter” has been in development as a feature film since last year, with Michael Bacall writing the screenplay.

has also set up both “The Magic Order” and the upcoming “Prodigy” at , with the latter set to be released on Dec. 5. “Sharkey the Bounty Hunter” will be available from Image Comics in comic book stores and online on Feb. 20.

“When I joined Netflix on staff last year we had this crazy plan of a big sci-fi universe of movies and ‘Sharkey’ is the first of these,” said Millar. “’The Magic Order’ is our fantasy/ horror franchise, ‘Prodigy’ is our big adventure movies and ‘Sharkey’ kicks off a whole world of sci-fi that’s just a great action comedy in the style of all the movies I grew up with. I love blue-collar heroes and I like the parent/ kid dynamic from movies like ‘Paper Moon’ or ‘Leon The Professional’ and, of course, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl. This is all the things Star Wars or Marvel can’t get away with. We start where they kinda draw the line and I love this freedom creatively as we’ve never seen space done this way before. To have Simone Bianchi drawing the comic-book side of all this and working from the amazing production designs is an honour. The team is just incredible. Simone and I have talking about working together since my days at Marvel so it’s a total blessing to finally be working with this Italian genius.”