Mark Millar and Leinil Francis Yu's super-powered heist comic Super Crooks is getting an anime adaptation courtesy of Netflix and a team of anime industry veterans.
Netflix originally announced that it was planning to adapt Super Crooks into a series in 2019, however, details about the production were scant until Variety released new information about the team creating the series. The new anime series will be helmed by director Motonobu Hori, best known for his work on BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad and Carole & Tuesday, which was also released as a Netflix exclusive outside of Japan. Takafumi Hitani, who also worked with Hori on Carole & Tuesday, will provide character designs for the series, while Dai Sato, who previously wrote screenplays for Eureka Seven, Cowboy Bebop and Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, will write the series.
A spinoff of Jupiter's Legacy, Super Crooks was originally published by Marvel as a four-issue miniseries in 2012. Created by Civil War and Kick-Ass writer Mark Millar and artist Leinil Francis Yu, the series tells the story of Johnny Bolt, a super-powered criminal with electrical abilities who is released from prison following a heist gone wrong. Johnny immediately gets pulled into another dangerous heist by his mentor, The Heat, an aging supervillain who needs to quickly pay off a mob debt. The two put together a team, which includes the superhero that sent Johnny to prison, and attempt to steal millions of dollars from the world's most successful and brutal supervillain.
No premiere date for Super Crooks has been announced at this time. The live-action Jupiter's Legacy series and Hori and Hitani's previous anime, Carole & Tuesday, are both available for streaming exclusively on Netflix.
Source: Variety via Anime News Network
