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The CW’s “Constantine” Animated Series Will Pick Up Where NBC Series Left Off
Your favorite occult detective isn’t dead yet.
Back in 2015, NBC cancelled both “Hannibal” and “Constantine,” and while we wait for a potential revival of the former, we’re happy to report that the latter is definitely coming back in the near future. It won’t be on NBC and it won’t even be live action, but Deadline reported over the weekend that actor Matt Ryan will return to voice John Constantine for a spinoff animated series.
Five or six 10-minute episodes have been ordered for CW Seed, the network’s digital home for comedy and animation. David S. Goyer, co-creator and executive producer of the NBC series, is on board the team, as is the original series’ producers Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment. Greg Berlanti, who oversees the DC Universe on The CW, will naturally oversee the project.
NBC cancelled “Constantine” after just one season, which came to a close on February 13th, 2015. Ryan subsequently played John Constantine on an episode of The CW’s “Arrow.”
In “Constantine”…
John Constantine, a demon hunter and dabbling master of the occult, must struggle with his past sins while protecting the innocent from the converging supernatural threats that constantly break through to our world due to the “Rising Darkness”. Balancing his actions upon the line of good and evil, Constantine uses his skills and a supernatural scry map to journey across the nation to send these terrors back to their own world, all for the hope of redeeming his soul from eternal torment.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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