We recently brought word that a pilot episode for a Constantine TV series was given the green light over at NBC. We just got a lot more excited about this project after learning that Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday) has been hired to direct the pilot.
Of course, Marshall is no stranger to TV, having directed episodes for both Game of Thrones and Black Sails. According to Deadline, the story comes from Daniel Cerone (The Mentalist), who worked on the pilot script with David S. Goyer (Man of Steel, Christopher Nolan's Batman movies). The two will also serve as executive producers on the project.
John Constantine first appeared in Swamp Thing in 1985 and had his own comic book series, Hellblazer, which started in 1988 and was rebooted earlier this year as Constantine, a new ongoing series set in the DC Universe:
"From a young age, Constantine sought refuge in the occult as an escape from his hard life. It didn’t take long for him to discover he had a gift for it, but he also learned the deadly price of the dark arts when his inexperience cost the life of another. Since then, Constantine has vowed mastery over the occult and the demonic creatures that seek to abuse its power. But in so doing, he’s also learned the hard truth about what it takes to stand against powerful dark forces—a willingness to sacrifice anything and anyone."
The plan is to have a pilot completed for the fall 2014 schedule, so we should be getting casting news in the near future and will keep Daily Dead readers updated. Keep in mind that this pilot order does not mean that the project will get picked up as a full series. Who would you like to see take on the role of John Constantine?
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