Blake Ritson will be playing Brainiac, an alien intelligence that moves throughout the universe collecting worlds, on Syfy's upcoming series
Krypton.
Ritson recently discussed his character with
Comicbook.com, when he was asked which of the various takes from the comics is he working with most closely -- and what makes his Brainiac different than the various live-action and animated versions already seen before?
There are many, many iterations of Braniac out there, so certain things I can probably tell you, and certain things I have to be a little coy about. I suppose the first thing I should say, is this is a Braniac you have never seen on screen before. This is a very different. I think the only time he's ever been in live action is Smallville, where he was effectively self-aware AI, and in that version, he appeared as a 20th Century human professor. This one will not be like that. He will be infinitely more terrifying.
Brainiac has undergone an innumerable amount of changes throughout the years in comics. Evolving from generic, green-skinned supervillain, to robot, to circus psychic with alien ties, to a borderline god. Ritson explained which version his iteration is most like:
This one is the full-fledged collector of worlds, so this version of Braniac is a hyper-intelligent alien android who is busy traversing the universe in his gigantic metal skull ship. He is effectively in the process of cataloging and absorbing all of creation. He views each world as a form of a receptacle of intelligence, and he's got to have it all. He rips a whole city from each planet before destroying it, or not, and then moves on. And the idea is, he then miniaturizes [the city], puts it into a tiny bottle on his ship, and sucks the information out of it -- So he is basically in the process of becoming creation.
Sounds like a pretty spot-on adaptation. What do you think about Krypton's version of Brainiac so far? Are you excited to see a more comic-accurate version of the character in live-action?
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