We recently brought word that Warner Bros. Television was looking into developing a Constantine TV series over at NBC and the project has officially been given a pilot order.
According to Deadline, David S. Goyer (Man of Steel, Christopher Nolan's Batman movies) will work on a script with Daniel Cerone (The Mentalist). The two will also serve as executive producers on the project. The Constantine TV series is still in the early development stages, so we don't know how closely it will stick to the source material at this time or if they are following the new series over the original.
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, according to K Site TV, 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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