Kingdom Come is one of the most beloved DC Comics stories ever published, but how did it come to be? That's the question being explored in a new documentary called The Legend of Kingdom Come. Directed by Remsy Atassi and produced by art dealer and comic book creator Sal Abbinanti, the film traces the origins of the comic book series and its lasting impact on superhero pop culture.
In this exclusive clip from the documentary, creators Mark Waid and Alex Ross reflect on their partnership and the early genesis of what became Kingdom Come. The film also features interviews with comic book luminaries like Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, The 100's Julie Benson and Shawna Benson, and Batman: The Animated Series' Paul Dini.
The Legend of Kingdom Come is being crowdfunded on Kickstarter, with the campaign going live on September 24, 2024.
In this exclusive clip from the documentary, creators Mark Waid and Alex Ross reflect on their partnership and the early genesis of what became Kingdom Come. The film also features interviews with comic book luminaries like Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, The 100's Julie Benson and Shawna Benson, and Batman: The Animated Series' Paul Dini.
The Legend of Kingdom Come is being crowdfunded on Kickstarter, with the campaign going live on September 24, 2024.
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00:00Mark and I, when we were initially united on this,
00:04when he was sort of drafted into the project,
00:07he took a trip out to stay in Chicago,
00:10and we spent about two days
00:13beating together an outline together
00:15that was really only loose at the start of it.
00:17Lobbing the ball back and forth,
00:19to me, that's the fun part.
00:21It's no fun to sit in a room by myself
00:24and hope I come up with an idea.
00:26The exciting thing is bouncing ideas back and forth
00:29and trying to one-up the other guy,
00:31and trying to escalate,
00:33and trying to, in a playful way, sort of outdo.
00:36Oh, you got an idea? I got a better idea.
00:39I remember the specific moment when it clicked for me,
00:42which was Alex was talking about, in the end,
00:45he wants everything to go back to
00:47Superman being Clark Kent again,
00:49and I had this mental image of Clark
00:52just taking a pair of glasses
00:54and putting them back on his face
00:56for the first time in the series.
00:58And that moment, that was just one little image,
01:00but that was the moment where I thought,
01:02okay, I got it, I know what we're doing now.
01:04To be perfectly honest, I was really excited
01:06about the fact that I knew this was going to be something,
01:08and I really liked Alex's work.
01:10At first, it wasn't, oh, boy,
01:12I got a million story ideas,
01:14and that's what I'm excited about, I'm going to dive in.
01:16It was more like, no, I think I'm on the beginning of something,
01:18I'm on the cusp of something that could be really great.
01:21And that's what got me all revved up,
01:23but as we started talking,
01:25as we started knocking ideas back and forth,
01:27I just became more and more excited
01:29about the possibilities of looking
01:31at the future of the DC universe.
01:33I know it meant a lot to him
01:35to see that where we were going with this thing,
01:38he got a sense, an epiphany himself,
01:40of like, there's going to be a lot of attention towards this,
01:43and there's going to be something of this
01:46that will be with us for years to come.
01:48So it would weigh on us
01:50the way it would be perceived for all time to come.
01:53But I always had this sense of like,
01:55oh, when people see this thing,
01:57they're going to be reading it for years and years to come.
02:00So I had this very self-absorbed sort of sense that like,
02:04oh, I'm making a legend right now.