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Netflix has released a thrilling behind-the-scenes video offering Jupiter’s Legacy fans insights into how the first episode’s climactic hilltop battle scene featuring the supervillain Blackstar was actually filmed. In a little over three minutes, the actors and crew break down how they filled three months with planning for this scene alone.
“The challenge of this sequence is we have a massive, tone-setting action piece with about nine different characters,” says Philip J. Silvera, the production’s stunt coordinator. “And there’s a lot of story to tell, and a lot of action to show in a very short amount of time.”
As actor Josh Duhamel, who plays The Utopian, says, this short video is a great reminder of how “tedious” huge setpieces can be to produce, but with careful attention to detail, “the cumulative effect of it all [will make it] really intense.”
Jupiter’s Legacy debuted on Netflix on May 7, and its first season has eight episodes. Based on this video, the show is making good on its promise to have a huge cast and massive explosions–and serves as a good reminder that Marvel and DC aren’t the only homes for superheroes. The streaming service’s series is an adaptation of long-running comic from creator Mark Millar (Kick-Ass, Kingsman), which has been going since 2013 and its content spans an impressive timeline featuring one generation of superheroes passing the torch to a younger one.
While you await word on whether there will be a Season 2, you can check out what other goodness is hitting Netflix over the month of May.
