Netflix’s Perfect James Bond Replacement Revealed

While everyone waits to learn who will play the next James Bond, Netflix is quietly building its own answer to 007. The streamer is developing an adaptation of Mark Millar’s King of Spies, a violent spy story about an aging British agent who decides to spend his final months killing the people he believes deserve to die. Millar confirmed the project after Netflix acquired his Millarworld catalog in 2017. That deal already produced adaptations of Jupiter’s Legacy, Super Crooks, and The Chosen One, though none became the kind of lasting hit Netflix clearly hoped for. Jupiter’s Legacy was canceled after one season, despite being pitched as a major superhero epic in the same broad space as Amazon’s The Boys. This time, Millar thinks he has something stronger. He described King of Spies as “basically like imagining James Bond taking out all the real bad guys.” “Well, the next one, right, don’t tell anyone, but the next one we’ll do is King of Spies, right, which is my sort of Britain’s greatest secret agent. I did the comic about four years ago, and the idea is Britain’s greatest secret agent is in his late 60s now, finds out he’s got terminal cancer and he’s got six months to live, thr...