With the release of John Wick 3: Parabellum just a few months away, is there room in the entertainment landscape for a TV movie about another reformed hitman reluctantly pulled out of retirement to exact vengeance? Netflix is betting there is with its forthcoming original film, Polar.

The film is based on a webcomic by Victor Santos featuring an international hitman named Kaiser Black. Santos considered his work a mix of classic Marvel comics (especially Jim Steranko’s S.H.I.E.L.D. comics), Jason Bourne movies, and manga. The webcomic, which debuted in 2012, didn’t even have dialogue, mostly because Santos wasn’t keen on translating the comic from Spanish to English. Dark Horse Comics produced a hardcover graphic novel entitled Polar: Came From the Cold in 2013, adding dialogue in speech balloons. Two more Polar volumes appeared in 2015 (Eye for an Eye) and 2016 (No Mercy for Sister Maria). A fourth and final volume, The Kaiser Falls, is slated to be released this April.

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