La NBC se hace con la serie de "CONSTANTINE"

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- Constantine - 1.03 "Name It and Claim It" (Episode Highlight):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzr_IyvH9os


- Constantine 1.04 "A Feast of Friends" Promo 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9qukhDiIoI

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- Descripción oficial del 1.06 “Rage of Caliban”:

1.06 “Rage of Caliban” (28/11/14): UN ESPÍRITU ASESINO SE HACE CON UN JOVEN — Cuando un joven es tomado por un espítitu malévolo, John (Matt Ryan) debe dejar a un lado sus dudas sobre el exortizar a un niño y convencer a los padres de que su chico no es todo lo que aparenta. Charles Halford y Harold Perrineau también aparecen. Laura Regan, Max Charles y Niall Matter estrellas invitadas.

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- Constantine tiene planes para el 'Dr. Thirteen' & 'Felix Faust':

Los productores ejecutivos de "Constantine" David S. Goyer y Daniel Cerone han participado en una conferencia esta mañana para promocionar el episodio del viernes "A Feast of Friends" y, durante ella, han mencionado que tienen plances para dos personajes más del unicerso DC:

- 'Dr. Terrence Thirteen': apareció por primera vez en los cómics de Star-Spangled #122 en el 1951, could be on the agenda. "Estoy leyendo ahora mismo una línea de nuestroi episodio 16 que incluye a Terrence Thirteen," dijo Cerone. En los cómnics, el 'Dr. Terrence Thirteen' era un investigador de lo oculto conocido por ser un "rompe fantasmas," que trabaja en desacreditar fenómenos supernaturales que el cree que son mitos y fraudes. Frecuentemente trabaja junto a 'Phantom Stranger', en quien tampoco cree. Finalmente, tendrá una hija, Traci Thirteen, quien salió brevemente con Blue Beetle.

- 'Felix Faust': Faust apareció por primera vez en el décimo número de 'Justice League' en América en 1962. El personaje es un poderoso mago en la tradición de DC Comics.

"Tenemos esta increíble fuente de material, y queremos hacer honor a ello. y ahondar tan profundamente como sea posible, y al mismo tiempo, mira, somos uns serie semanal, y tenemos historias semanales, y estamos intentando presentar lo mejor que podemos ambos mundos, en cuanto a mitologóa en el mundo de DC de Hellblazer and DC world, pero lo hacemos con historias semanales a los que los espectadores puedan sentirse enganchados," dice Cerone.

La serie también contará con 'Papa Midnite' por cuatro episodios y dos de 'Jim Corrigan' por el momento, y con la posibilidad de que hayan más.

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- Angélica Celaya sobre la atracción de Zed hacia el mundo demoníaco (IGN):

Angélica Celaya sobre la atracción de Zed hacia el mundo demoníaco
Por Matt Fowler 13 Nov 2014

Fans of the Hellblazer comics will no doubt get a kick out of Friday's episode of Constantine, "A Feast of Friends," as it's an adaptation of the very first story from the series - from 1988's John Constantine, Hellblazer #1. John will do his very best to stop a extremely powerful hunger demon named "Mnemoth" from turning all of humanity into starving monsters who quickly transform into emaciated corpses.

The Zed character didn't play a role in the original Mnemoth tale, but she does in the episode, clashing with John over his treatment of an old friend named Gary Lester who shows up at John's doorstep with a huge problem.

I had the chance to talk to Zed herself, actress Angélica Celaya, about the pivotal episode. Also, Zed's past, her attraction to John's world, and what's to come on the show.

IGN: What can you tell us about "A Feast of Friends?" It looks like Zed gets pretty upset with John over a few things.

Angélica Celaya: Oh yeah. John and Zed get into this big confrontation. And it has to do with this old friend of his who sort of comes between us in a way. And so something happens there and it leads to this big disagreement between the two of them. Zed's had it with John at one point. She gets feisty. [laughs]

IGN: But nothing ever seems to be enough to push Zed away. She's very stubborn.

Celaya: She is. Very much. But remember that Zed is a very complicated girl and this old friend was with John at Newcastle and she wants know more about it. She always wants to know more about John's past. Just like he wants to find out about Zed's past. They want to find out about each other basically and neither side is giving any information out. So when John's friend comes in she feels like she maybe can get stuff out of him.

IGN: Even though neither one is particularly nice to the other, do you think Zed and John are starting to warm to each other? Like, a new family is being created?

Celaya: Definitely. Even though they don't trust each other, they're still both the ones either one trusts the most. If that makes any sense. Like, I don't trust you one hundred percent, but of all the people in the world you're the one I'd bet on.

IGN: Zed has powers of her own, but to be able to now see this full world of demons and monsters, what's that like for her?

Celaya: It's very new to her. She comes from a very complicated past and we're going to see a lot of this revealed throughout the next couple of episodes; where she's coming from. We left off in the last episode with her taking off her cross. And that'll give you some insight as to what Zed's running away from. And in a way she's running away from her family. And running away from her past. And so finding out that there's a bigger cause to join and that there are bigger things to fight for and that her powers can actually be used to do some good in the world, it makes it all feel worth while for her. It's a fascinating experience for Zed because she's getting to know more about herself from John. John is sort of a guide for her. Like a teacher, in the strangest sense of the word. And so she's learning. And she keeps being able to do more things and go past what's she's capable of usually doing in the moment.

IGN: One of the things we learn in the episode is that people, whether they're at his level or not, admire John. They like him and want to be around him. What's that about?

Celaya: I think it's his way of brushing everything off. And his way of confronting danger without worry of being physically hurt or destroyed. It's not outwardly there, but he wields it. And for Zed in particular I think it's a psychological thing. As in, someone who puts themselves in constant danger is also someone who wants something bad to happen to themselves. Because they feel guilty about something. And that's who Zed is too. Because she doesn't want to look back at her past and she feels guilty about some of the things in her life. And so she understands that aspect of John. And that's why she wants to be a part of his world. And that's why she's attracted to him. Completely attracted to him.

John puts up this big wall and doesn't want people to get close. But Zed's been able to have a close connection to John and she's read his innermost being and she knows who he really is. And it's not just being a "petty dabbler" or "magician." So even while he's able to get others to follow him, she's able to see more than anyone else. So that's what attracts her to John's world.

IGN: Have you ever played someone with powers of this sort before?

Celaya: No, I haven't had powers before. [laughs] It's all very very new to me. What is true is that I studied psychology in the past. And people are very sensitive to energies that are out there. Even little things like back when people are in high school. And there were times when we all knew when someone was thinking bad things about you or wanting to give you a dirty look. Or how people can tell you what they're feeling without saying anything. We just knew things sometimes. Even though they're not always presented to us outright. So I use a lot of that human intuition that we all have for Zed. We feel people. We sort of know how they feel about situations. I'm using a lot of that. I'm trying even to open myself up more in everyday life so that I can be receptive to what's out there. And then use that experience for a Zed vision.

IGN: Were you familiar with the comics when you took the job?

Celaya: No. As far as heroes go, I didn't go far past Wonder Woman and She-Ra honestly. [laughs] I stopped about there. I really did not know about this. This whole world of darkness, the Hellblazer world, I didn't know about any of it. It's really new to me. I keep a couple of Hellblazer books with me here now. And before my actual first day of filming I really did just sit and read and read and got all the information I could get, so I wouldn't be so far away from the character on the page, but still be able to do my own thing. I try to bring in some sarcasm every now and again to showcase her "I don't care" attitude, because that's how Zed is in the comic books. Which I enjoy almost too much. But with that I tried to make her a little more three dimensional.

IGN: Having read the stories then, it must have been cool to see the hunger demon story translated to TV.

Celaya: It is so cool! And the episode, honestly, it has so many layers to it. I think it's one of our favorites here. Because we see this other side of John that's going to make everybody love him. That's the kind of episode it is. The kind of story that makes you understand him more and you wind up feeling for him. You join in his pain. And you know why he has to push through it.

IGN: What can we expect from the rest of the season?

Celaya: Well, The Spectre's coming. So that's interesting and awesome. And we definitely learn more about Zed and her past. Her past comes back and haunts her in a big way. And that's going to be a huge part of the season. Along with The Spectre. And the four of us - John, Manny, Chas, and Zed - we get together and we start actually becoming a tight team. And that's going to be incredible

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- Los productores ejecutivos de "Constantine" prometen un episodio para 'Chas' (ksitetv):

Los productores ejecutivos de "Constantine" prometen un episodio para 'Chas'
Por Craig Byrne, 14 Noviembre, 2014

In Hellblazer comics lore, "Chas" Chandler is John Constantine's right-hand man and one of his closest friends. On the NBC TV series Constantine, which sees a new episode tonight at 10PM ET, he's also the muscle, and played by the very strong Charles Halford.

So far, we haven't seen a lot of Chas... but are there plans to see more of him in the future? We asked Constantine Executive Producers David S. Goyer and Daniel Cerone on a recent press call, where Cerone talked about how - as possibly the only living and most constant companion of Constantine's - he was a character they wanted to have on the show on a regular basis. And, yes, there are more plans for him.

"Chas is definitely the strong, silent type, very laconic kind of character we wanted to roll out slowly," Cerone said. "I know there’s been a couple of issues [of Hellblazer] where they dig in his back story, but there’s not a lot there. We’ve really enjoyed opening [Chas] up. We will open him up deeper in Episode 10," he promised.

"In the pilot episode, you see that Chas comes back to life. For some reason, people started translating that to the idea that he’s immortal. We promise you he is not immortal. There’s a very good reason that he’s coming back to life, and the only spoiler I will give is that, you know, those lives are not infinite. And we do have an episode that involves flashbacks where we basically tell that story and we get to know more about Chas, we can meet Renee [his ex-wife] and his daughter, and we kind of dig into that story and figure out what makes Chas tick," Cerone said.

"When the first 13 episodes are down, people will be surprised at how much kind of background we filled in on various characters - with John, and Manny, and Zed's back story. It’s not just taste of the week," Goyer added.

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- Ryan sobre el llevar a la vida al Antihéroe "Constantine", y el expandir la mitología de DC en la TV (CBR):

Ryan sobre el llevar a la vida al Antihéroe "Constantine", y el expandir la mitología de DC en la TV
Por Bryan Cairns, 14 de Nov 2014

With a business card that reads "Exorcist, Demonologist and Master of the Dark Arts," John Constantine is definitely not your typical do-gooder or roadside trickster. Based on the mystical character's not-for-kids "Hellblazer" title, NBC's "Constantine" finds trench coat-sporting cynic John Constantine hunting down demons across the United States to atone for his past sins, including losing 8-year-old Astra to the malevolent Nergal.

Leading man Matt Ryan spoke to CBR News about the one-time Vertigo headliner's quest for redemption, touching on the actor's "Hellblazer" fan bonafides, the promise of more stories making the leap from page to TV and John's ongoing relationship with voodoo practitioner/crime lord Papa Midnite (Michael James Shaw). We also discuss digging up old skeletons with John's Newcastle friends, the impending debut of Detective Jim Corrigan -- better known to DC Comics readers as the magical hero Doctor Fate -- and his reaction to fan criticism over the aspects of the character that haven't made it to the television screen.

CBR News: What, specifically, did you take away from the comic books when developing your version of John Constantine?

Matt Ryan: Everything, really. I just tried to get as much as possible about the history, the dark sense of humor and his tormented, twisted soul. I just tried to get all those layers together. It wasn't one specific thing. It was letting the whole thing seep into me.

As you know, there are lots of different writers that have written him, and lots of different artists that have drawn him. It's interesting to flip between the bunch of them. You get different colors. What I do sometimes is dip into a comic for a specific episode to inspire me.

In previous interviews, you've referenced the comic book arc "Dangerous Habits" as one of your favorites. What makes that one stand out?

It's what John goes through and it's the height of his trickery, the way he tricks the Devil. There's that, then there's this man who is in a desperate human situation. In the comics, I think it was in "The Family Man" run, where John says, "Demons. Devils. I can deal with those. But people…" There's something about the reality of everyday human problems that John isn't connected to. That really interests me about him. He can go off and fight a demon, but if somebody has cancer, it freaks him out. It's a tragic human story with all the demons and devils still in it. That's the thing I liked.

Did you ever imagine you would be raked over the coals about Constantine's chain smoking or sexuality?

With such an iconic character, you are going to get scrutinized. I've been surprised by the in-depth knowledge of the fans about the character. I kind of expected the feedback, really. Then I thought, "It's my job to get under his skin as much as possible, so I could do the best portrayal."

Four episodes into the season, do you consider John a hero or an anti-hero?

Oh, he's a working class anti-hero. He's a man's man. I definitely see him as an anti-hero.

How does Astra's hellish fate continue to haunt and drive John?

There's a big theme of redemption. In the pilot, Manny (Harold Perrineau) gives John the glimmer of hope that there might be a chance to save his soul. Through everything we've been doing so far, redemption is a huge driving force. It's the reason he's pursuing these things and going after The Rising Darkness. That scar on him from Astra will always be with him. That's such a reminder for him.

John crossed paths with Papa Midnite in last week's episode, "The Devil's Vinyl." What makes the voodoo practitioner a good foil for John?

What I liked about it is Papa Midnite is very specific to voodoo magic. Constantine is a street magician, so he uses what he wants, when he wants, to get what he wants. In an upcoming episode, Papa Midnite has this great line where he says, "What are you doing? You are just messing around with your father's spellbook." But what's great is Papa Midnite is very specific and very good at the magic he does in terms of what he uses and when. John takes what he likes. That gets on Papa's nerves, and John uses that against him. The fact that Papa is a big crime overlord makes him a good adversary. They really are uneasy allies. They both need each other more than they let on.

Tonight's episode, "A Feast of Friends," introduces one of John's NEwcastle aquaintances Gary Lester (Jonjo O'Neill). What brings Gary to town?

Gary Lester comes to town because he has a problem that he needs John to solve. This is a great character from the comic books, and it's one of my favorite episodes. Gary is a junkie. He's somebody with a problem, himself. John grates him, and doesn't know if he's telling the truth. There's a lot of conflict and history in that relationship. What viewers will see is this great "Hellblazer" story pulled directly from the comics and transposed onto the screen.

What does Gary's presence reveal about John?

It stirs up a lot of the emotions over Astra. It brings out the incident to the forefront with Zed (Angelica Celaya), even though John doesn't go into detail with Zed about the Newcastle event. She does get some information from Gary. That's the main thing -- here's this past relationship from back in the day that turns up on John's doorstep. All those old emotions are whipped up again, and John is John. He just jumps to it, pushes through and gets on with the job.

Do you feel Zed will see John in a different light after this case?

I think so. She realizes the lengths that John is willing to go to get the job done. At the same time, even though Zed has a different moral compass, there's something in her that realizes he's right in a way. The world needs people like him. That's a really interesting development in their relationship.

Viewers have been eagerly awaiting Jim Corrigan/The Spectre's appearance, which is fast approaching. How do John and Jim bump into each other, and what's their dynamic?

John and Jim are very similar, but they have a different approach to things. Jim is somebody who seeks justice and will go to any lengths to get it. Whereas, John isn't someone who seeks justice. He needs to make sure that humanity survives. He will go to any length to do that.

At this point, Jim also doesn't believe in the supernatural world we've been introduced to on "Constantine." That's a revelation for him as well.

We're introduced to Jim because there's a murder that Jim witnesses and can't explain. John and his team come across the murder, and Jim, as well. Jim is then thrust into this world of craziness. Papa Midnite is going to be in that episode, too.

What else has you excited about where "Constantine" is heading and the mythology being built by the series?

There's so much potential for this show, with all the comics and source material we have. The whole world is just an open book. It's so exciting to know where we're going week-to-week. I really loved "A Feast of Friends". Jonjo O'Neill is a really good friend of mine. We worked at The Royal Shakespeare Company ten years ago. When I knew he was up for the part, I was blown away. I was like, "Please let it be him," because he's such an awesome actor.

Apart from "A Feast of Friends," the episodes just get better and better. Sometimes you can have a really good pilot and then the show can't keep up. I really feel like we've gotten to a place where the world is getting bigger. The stories are amazing. Episodes 8 and 9 are my favorites. It's a two-parter. Even now as I am saying that, I'm thinking, "Well, what about episode 7 or episode 6? Or what about the episode we're filming now?"

It's really exciting to know this world is expanding. I'm learning about the mythology, how it all works and the mechanics of it. There's a deepening of the characters and strengthening of the relationships over the season as well.

Whether it's with Jim Corrigan or an Easter egg such as Doctor Fate's helmet, are you one of those guys anxious to see where those storylines are going?

Yeah, I am. I pick up a script, and the writers have dropped Easter eggs for us. We're like, "Does that mean we're going in this direction now?" In the script we have now, they dropped a big Easter egg. I called the writer and was like, "So, does this mean we are going to be doing that arc in the comics?" He was like, "Well, you know…" They keep you guessing.

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- Productores ejecutivos adelantan el epsodio de esta noche, y hablan sobre la S1 (TheThelevixen):

Productores ejecutivos adelantan el epsodio de esta noche, y hablan sobre la S1
Por Melissa - 14 Nov 2014

Have you started on the wild and crazy ride that has been Constantine‘s inaugural season yet? It’s been a welcome addition to Friday nights, bringing action, sarcasm and scares in a way that only John Constantine and the Hellblazer universe can!

In a recent press call, Executive Producers David S. Goyer and Daniel Cerone discussed Constantine‘s first season, and teased tonight’s episode, “Feast of Friends,” which is a story ripped straight from the pages of Hellblazer. Here are some highlights from that call:

We’ve already seen some of the Hellblazer characters come to life on Constantine — in addition to the title character, of course. To what extent do you plan to explore the Constantine mythos in the first season?

Cerone: We’re digging as deeply into the Constantine mythos as we possibly can. I mean, in fact, it really is inspiring much of our storytelling. The episode that is airing [tonight], which we’re extremely excited about, “Feast of Friends,” is a story that’s literally ripped from the pages of Hellblazer. It is the first story … first issue from Hellblazer. It brings back Gary Lester, who is John’s friend from Newcastle. It’s a fantastic story that translated so well to screen. Seriously, it’s our show at its pinnacle and it just sort of really kind of set a bar of everything that we hope this show can be and can do.

In a broader sense, over the course of the season, we’re breaking Episode 17 right now, and we have a fantastic ride ahead. Before the end of the season, you’re going to meet and get to know every one of John’s friends from Newcastle that were involved in the sort of fateful exorcism of Astra that led to the eternal torment of John’s soul. Papa Midnite, I think, we have now in four episodes. Jim Corrigan comes [in Episode 5]. I’m reading an outline right now for Episode 16 that includes Terrance Thirteen (Dr. Thirteen) …

Goyer: And Felix Faust.

Daniel Cerone: We have Felix Faust. Yes. We have this incredible source material, and we want to honor it and dig as deeply into it as we possibly can. At the same time, we’re a weekly network show and we have weekly stories. We’re trying to present the best of both worlds in terms of ongoing mythology, with the Hellblazer and DC world, but wrapped around weekly stories the viewers can hook into.

David S. Goyer: And I would add one other thing, too. We read the responses to various episodes. I know that people seemed to really like the last episode that introduced Papa Midnite, but some people said “Okay, so now we know what the formula is going to be week after week and we still haven’t heard much more about the rising darkness or Newcastle.” Well, you’re about to with the fourth episode. We think that is the right time to do it. We’re not a fully serialized show. We’re kind of a hybrid between standalone and serialized, and we’re going to start introducing more back story elements every few episodes or so.

How much is the TV series is influenced by Constantine pre-New 52 versus post 52?

Goyer: I would say that the show is almost exclusively influenced by the Pre-52, the Hellblazer comics, if for no other reason than Hellblazer ran for 300 issues and the new Constantine is — I know it’s less than 20. They’re just not the body of work that exists in terms of what we’re influenced by.

Cerone: Yes. If I can jump in on that part, David is completely right. We have the whole Constantine cannon at our disposal in terms of storytelling. We do look to the newer issues to see if there are interesting story ideas for us or stories that we can use or adopt.

One of the most fascinating things about Constantine to me is that it was the longest-running comic book series. According to my understanding of any imprint of any comic book publisher, in its 30-year run it was never rebooted, it was never renumbered, it was never reissued. It just stayed in continuous publication as a guy who aged on the page, in real-time. And I just think that makes him such a unique character.

What we’re doing on our show is going back to beginning. We’re basically meeting [him at] roughly the same time that you met him in Hellblazer in the very first issue. And what’s great is that we’re choosing an entry point where the character is young and all those adventures are ahead of him and we hope to dramatize as many of them as we possibly can.

Can you talk about the balance between appealing to the comic fans while introducing this story to viewers who know nothing about this world?

Cerone: I actually feel like we’re tipping closer to creating the show for the non-fan than the fan. Every week [we] introduce a danger and characters that you can relate to and care for and, at the same time, we’re trying to spin out this central character of John Constantine as someone who is full of aches and pain and guilt and torment. He is going about doing something because he feels personally compelled to do it.

You don’t have to know of the character Papa Midnite. You don’t have to know about The Newcastle Crew. You don’t have to know about Felix Faust or Doctor Fate or any of these elements that we’re using to enjoy the show. Every week, we’re just trying to tell the most honest and accessible and humanistic stories that we possibly can. But there’s an added layer on top of that for the comic book fan where if you know the world, if you know John Constantine, if you know Hellblazer, if you know some of the iconic images and people on the DC world, it’s value added. It’ll provide that much more entertainment and fun.

Any final thoughts?

Cerone: [Tonight] is the closest thing if you want to see the comic book on screen … so we’re pretty psyched about it.

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- Daniel Cerone y David S. Goyer: "Estamos ahondando en la mitología tanto como podemos" (comicbook):

Daniel Cerone y David S. Goyer: "Estamos ahondando en la mitología tanto como podemos"
Por Russ Burlingame 16/11/2014

Earlier this week, Constantine Executive Producers Daniel Cerone and David S. Goyer joined a group of journalists on a conference call to discuss the series, the fifth episode of which aired on Friday to around 3.5 million viewers.

We discussed briefly some of the high points of the conversation, but as Warner Bros. Television and NBC have provided a transcript of the talk, Comicbook.com have modified it somewhat to remove extraneous chatter that happens on any conference call and offered it here.

The questions come from a variety of sources, ranging from regional newspaper chains to sites like KSite and CNN's iReporter page.

David, let me ask you. Obviously, you have no shortage of significant projects that you’re working on. What made this the right time and the right platform to be involved in telling the story?

David S. Goyer: The genesis of the project is that I had a meeting with Warner Bros. Television. This is sort of right after Man of Steel had come out and they asked the - if I would be interested in doing a television show based on a DC property. And so we just started having, you know, a general conversation about which one made most sense.

In the first character, I asked about John Constantine. I’ve always been a huge fan. I was reading Swamp Thing when he was introduced. And, in fact, I have a letter printed in one of the early issues that he was introduced as a fan, I think when I was in high school or something like that.

And there were some sort of legal things to sort out initially and then we start talking about other characters. But eventually Constantine became free and I was really excited.

And the reason for why is the right time, I’ve done, obviously, in The Dark Knight film from Superman, you know. But one of the reasons why I always like John Constantine is he didn’t have superpowers, he didn’t have a costume, and he always used to kind of thumb his nose at those characters. So it was refreshing for me to tell a story about an antihero as opposed to a hero and he is someone who was really damaged and I just feel like he’s one of the great characters of sort of modern literature and, I don’t know, it was a different change of pace, you know?

What can you tell us as far as how far are we going to go into the Constantine mythos early on? Are you going to introduce a lot of familiar stuff in the comics? Obviously, we’ve seen Papa Midnite. And are there going to be more things like that?

Daniel Cerone: We’re digging as deeply into the Constantine mythos as we possibly can. I mean, in fact, it really is inspiring much of our storytelling. I mean, the episode that is airing this Friday, which we’re extremely excited about, “Feast of Friends” is the title. And that’s a story that’s literally ripped from the pages of Hellblazer. It is the first story...

First issue from the “Hellblazer” issue and, you know, it brings back Gary Lester, who is one of the - John’s friend from Newcastle. And it’s just - it’s a fantastic story that translated so well to screen and I would urge anybody who’s listening to this to try to watch it before Friday and get people talking about it because it is - seriously, it’s our show at its pinnacle and it just sort of really kind of set a bar of everything that we hope this show can be and can do.

But in a broader sense, look, over the course of the season, we’re breaking up 17 right now. And we have a fantastic ride ahead. Before the end of the season, you’re going to meet and get to know every one of John’s friends from Newcastle that were involved in the sort of faithful exorcism of Astra that, you know, led to the torment - external torment of John’s soul.

And so you’re going to meet them all. I mean, look, Papa Midnite, I think, we have now in four episodes. Jim Corrigan comes back for a couple of more. I’m reading an outline right now for Episode, what is it, 16 that includes Terence Thirteen with...

Goyer: With Dr. Thirteen from, you know...

Cerone: Right.

Goyer: ...Felix Faust. Felix Faust...

Cerone: We have Felix Faust. Yes. So we’re really trying to - you know, look, we have this incredible source material. And, you know, we want to honor it and dig as deeply into it as we possibly can and, at the same time, look, we’re a weekly network show and we have weekly stories. And we’re trying to present the best of both worlds in terms of ongoing mythology, you know, with the Hellblazer and DC world but wrapped around weekly stories the viewers can hook into.

Goyer: And I would add one other thing, too, which is, you know, we read the responses to various episodes. And I think we have three episodes so far and some people - I know that people seemed to really like the last episode that introduced Papa Midnite and - but some people said “Okay, so now we know what the formula is going to be week after week and we still haven’t heard much more about the rising darkness or Newcastle well.” Well, you’re about to with the fourth episode.

And we think that sort of the right time to do it, we’re not a fully serialized show. We’re kind of a hybrid between standalone and serialize. And we’re going to start introducing, you know, kind of more back story elements, you know, every few episodes or so.

Are we going to be getting any more episodes that might focus on Chas and his back story at some point?

Goyer: Yes.

Cerone: Yes. We - Chas is an interesting character because, you know, in terms of - when David and I developed the show and sat down to figure out what characters do we want in a continuing basis. On one hand, Chas was a natural because he’s sort of the most constant companion and long living companion. Maybe the only living companion of John Constantine’s. And - but really he’s not much more than - he’s like the muscle and he’s the driver, you know? Been a cab driver and, you know, John didn’t drive a lot. I don’t think he drives at all in the comic book.

And so, you know, we want to include Chas and he is definitely the strong, silent type, very laconic kind of character we wanted to roll out slowly.

But there - and I know there’s been a couple of issues where they dig in his back story but there’s not a lot there. So we’ve really enjoyed Chas. We’ve really enjoyed opening him up. We will open him up deeper, Episode 10. You know, we came up with this idea, this notion because Chas is, you know, the comic don’t make a...

Goyer: They’ll reveal why.

Cerone: I’m not going to - I don’t want - no spoilers, promise. But...

Goyer: Right.

Cerone: ...let’s put it this way. In the pilot episode, you see that Chas comes back to life. For some reason, people started translating that to the idea that he’s mortal. We promise you he is not immortal. There’s...

Goyer: He’s not immortal.

Cerone: ...very good reason that he’s coming back to life and the only spoiler I will give is that, you know, those lives are not Internet. And we do have an episode that involves flashbacks where we basically tell that story and we get to know more about Chas, we can meet Renee and his daughter, Renee’s wife, ex-wife or they’re separated right now and his daughter and we kind of dig into that story and figure out what makes Chas tick.

Goyer: And I would add to that that I - I think when, you know, even when the first 13 episodes are down, people will be surprised at how much kind of background we filled in on various characters and even in terms of the relationship with John and Manny and Zed’s back story and it’s not just taste of the week.

How difficult of a decision was it for you guys to not carry on with Liv's story, and is there a possibility that she’ll ever pop up again?

Goyer: You know, honestly, it really wasn’t that difficult. I mean, it became apparent to us and, look, we’re glad you like her. I think she did a fantastic job. But I think that the character wasn’t - was flawed in its conception. And, you know, we’re - obviously we’re to blame for that. She was the only major character in the pilot that wasn’t from the comic books and sometimes you make these concessions when you’re trying to get a show off and running and, you know, one of the benefits of doing a pilot is you’ve got this initial downtime after the pilot before you’re, you know, filming again in which you can think about retooling some aspects. And once we saw the character in action and we started breaking, you know, Episodes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, we felt like we were just running into a lot of dead ends. And that’s when we decided to go back to the source material and talking about character Zed and I will say I feel like that the vast majority of the audience seems to have felt that the Zed character was a better match for John and seems to have supported our decision.

Do you want to add to that, Daniel?

Cerone: Yes. Look, in terms of, you know, David and I received a lovely e-mail from Lucy Griffiths, the actress who played Liv, right before we aired and, you know, in terms of whether she’ll be back, look, she’s part of the foundation of the show. I mean the mill house in which John is crashing and full of, you know, all kinds of magical antiquities, you know...that’s her father’s place.

So, you know, listen, as we dig deeper into the season, as we start talking about possible arc for next season, there’s - I would say there’s an opening there. Whether it’s an opening we’ll step through or not, it would have to be organic, it would have to feel right and not feel like a device. But if there’s an organic reason to bring her back into the story, we’d love to.

How does the fan base help you develop the storylines you want to produce?

Goyer: Well, I mean, it’s interesting. I’ve adopted quite a few comic book properties now. And it’s a - it’s tricky because I think you have to be really attentive to the fan base.

What we talk about is - but at the same time - I mean, I’m paraphrasing Steve Jobs: You can’t give the market what they say they want. You want to give them something that they haven’t even thought of. If you give them exactly what they want, they become disappointed by the same token.

The way that we’ve always tried to measure it is that, you know, we’ve tried to dip in with the fans and be aware of what are the issues that are most important to them, what are the core concepts that are most important, with the characters what are the most important. But we, also cognizant of the fact that if the show is going to flourish and broaden its audience, we need to be able to respond to an audience greater than just the core comic book fans. And so it needs to work for both audiences.

Cerone: David and I came out this as fans of the [character].

We fell in love with all the things about John Constantine that the fans did. And - or at least based on what I’ve read of the fans. But look, you know, we needed that smartass, wisecracking, like, just, you know, gallows humor, scruffy blonde-haired, trench coat-wearing, cigarette-smoking breath, you know, with a fatalistic attitude and this, you know, deeply humanist point of view for reasons that he doesn’t even understand. I mean, we like that character. That was someone that just appealed to us. So we’re going to be true to that no matter what.

And then when you start - and we wanted to stay true to the world and the characters. And then you take that foundation and you have to figure out, “Okay, how can we pour that into a show that can last and sustain itself on a weekly basis” and NBC had certain desires for the show. They wanted stories that were told every week. So as David mentioned before, this is a bit of a hybrid. I mean, for us, it was “Okay, how do we figure out how to both, you know, as fans, tell the story we want to tell about the evolution of this character and his relationships, you know, as well as, you know, some closed-end stories to broaden out the fan base?” So yes. I mean, we came out of it as fans.

Goyer: And I’ll give you - to build on what Daniel said, I mean, because we were fans of the character, when we first met with NBC, we said “Look, you know, we know that the counter movie is out there and it wasn’t British and he didn’t have blonde hair” and I think that that movie had a lot of great attributes but because we had fallen in love with the John Constantine as depicted in the comic books, it was our mission, you know, to try to bring to life the character that as accurately reflected the character we had fallen in love with as possible. So when NBC says “Well, does he have to be British? Does he have to wear skinny tie in a trench coat? Does he have to be blonde? Does he have to smoke?” we said “Yes.” And they said “Why?” And we said “Because that’s the character we fell in love with.”

So in that regard...

Cerone: And I’ll say there every step of the way, they did ask those questions, too, like, they were very open and accepting and loving and they wanted to embrace the fans, too, but at a certain point, like when it came to casting, Matt Ryan does not have blonde hair. And initially, they’re like “Do we really need to lighten his hair” and we’re like “Yes we do.” They got the first draft of the script and they saw sort of all of the kind of British euphemisms and colloquialisms written into his dialog and they’re like “That might be off-putting. Does he really need to be British?” And we...

Goyer: We said “Yes.”

Cerone: ...he does. So at every step of the way, we fought for that. And to their credit, they were very open and they understood our passion and I believe the fans’ passion for the character.

Goyer: But, you know, to put a bow on it, how does the fans, you know, how does the hopes and desires back burn to it, it’s important because we were fans of the character and have been fans of the character for decades ourselves. So we were really determined to try to bring to life, you know, a version of Constantine that was accurate.

I was struck by this, especially in the first episode, but as it had gone on as well, how scary Constantine is as a drama. And I was wondering if there’s anything NBC had asked you to tone down or change in what you showed so far.

Goyer: Not really.

Cerone: Yes. I got the same. And they - it’s funny, Kimberly, because they pushed us not so much anymore now that we kind of understand - and, look, you know, I was a show runner the first two seasons of “Dexter.” David has done, you know, a ton of, you know, feature films where, you know, pretty much anything goes.

But we’ve also done network shows over years and we’ve kind of self-censored ourselves in the beginning. And, you know, at every step of the way from the network be it in the outline phase of the scripts or the cuts that the network were seeing they’re like “Go further,” like “Push it further” like they - I don’t - I’m not sure what changed the network landscape.

Goyer: I don’t know if I could think of any instance in which they said “Tone it down.”

Cerone: Yes, there wasn’t one. They have pushed us to go bigger. They have pushed us to go darker. They pushed us to go scarier. There’s constantly - if I had a broader note down to one, it would be “Just make this as big and scary as possible,” like, that’s what they want to see. So it’s been really framed for us. I mean, look, we have to do what we do with them but budgetary limitations and capabilities. But no, they have not censored us at all.

Constantine is not like Arrow, he’s not like The Flash, he’s kind of a different kind of hero/antihero. So how does that factor into your writing and the portrayal of this character in order to still make people want to root for him? How do you make your antihero the hero?

Goyer: Well, first of all I would say there are heroes and there are antiheroes. And they’re both a lot of fun to write. But in some ways, writing antiheroes, antiheroes are more fun to write for because they’re not bound by the same moral code that the heroes are.

And in some ways, antiheroes are more human because most of us have variables. Most of us are imperfect. And, you know, he’s doing what he’s doing for fundamentally noble reasons but he doesn’t really have a code of conduct.

I do think that audiences also like antiheroes. I mean, if you look at House, if you look at Luthor, if you look at Sherlock, I would categorize these characters more properly antiheroes than heroes. They can be fun. And different and it’s - they’re not operational. You don’t - you know, people want to be them and people want to be Superman. I don’t think people want to be Constantine because he’s kind of a miserable thought. But he’s also fun. And it’s fun to - you know, it’s a reverence and it’s just a different way to go.

Cerone: A lot of characters that are out there are doing what they do because it’s their job or because I have a badge or because I have a calling. As David said, you know, Constantine is doing the right thing but he’s doing it for totally humanist reasons, you know? It’s one of those fascinating aspects of the character to me is if you ask him why he’s out there, you know, helping humanity, I’m not even sure he can tell you.

You know, is he doing it because he wants to save lives? Is he doing it because, frankly, chasing demons is a bit of a fix for him and he’s just challenging for the next kill? Is he doing it, as he said early in his career, for the women and to get laid? Is he doing it to, you know, because it’s kind of self-empowerment? You know, it’s just never really clear.

And what’s great about him is I don’t even think he’s clear. But yet, he keeps doing it and he keeps fighting this fight. And yes, as David said, one of the funest things is that there’s no code of conduct that he operates by. He’s doing the good things that all the cops and lawyers and whatever kind of other heroes are out there doing. But there’s no checks and balances for him. And that’s where he often gets into trouble.

And that - I think when you ask what makes him relatable, I think that’s it because he’s his own, you know, he has a self-sense to himself and he frequently goes over the line and he frequently makes bad calls and, you know, the fact that Constantine, if you - anyone who gets close to Constantine dies. I mean, that has proven itself true, you know, for years in the comic books. And, look, in our - very early in our series, you’re going to see that, too, where he makes the hard calls and he loses friends over it, sometimes literally.

And so that’s kind of his curse and it makes him, hopefully - hopefully, that’s what makes him - it’s easy to vote for him.

Goyer: I would also add that I think that these things are cyclical and I think that they come in waves and maybe it’s a common - a broader commentary on where we are in society right now. But the television landscape right now is, you know, it’s flourishing with the really flawed characters.

And for whatever reason, audiences are responding and fascinated by these flawed characters. And it’s not so much - I think if you look at the television landscape now, you know, it used to be that there were a lot of - the black cats were the black cats and white cats were the white cats and it was very clear who is who but there are a lot of shades of grey right now and that seems to be kind of, you know, what’s happening with the right guys, you know, in terms of the role.

I was interested in finding out how much of the Pre-52 influenced the series as well as the Post-52 and how difficult is it to ride that line of horror and suspense without crossing over to get the censors on your case?

Goyer: I would say as the sort of the resident comic book nerd, I would say that the show is almost exclusively influenced by the Pre-52, you know - the Hellblazer comics, you know? If for no other reason then Hellblazer ran for 300 issues and the new Constantine is - I know it’s less than 20. I’m not quite sure where they’re at now, 15, 16. They’re just not the body of work that exists in terms of what we’re influenced by.

So without question, and I know this is really inside baseball, but the show is primarily influenced by and inspired by the Pre-52...

Cerone: Yes. If I can jump in on that part, David is completely right. I don’t think we’ve - other than, you know, we do look over - I mean, look, we have the whole sort of Constantine cannon at our disposal in terms of storytelling. We do look to the newer issues, you know, to see if there’s interesting story ideas for us or stories that we can use or adopt.

But, look, the Web described what we’re doing on the show as, you know, Constantine is this amazing mythology. And there’s this amazing character and, you know, it’s just like this fantastic car that we’ve been given the keys to, to take it for a spin and we’re doing that on network television. And, you know, the writers of the new 52 Constantine, they’re doing the same thing as we are. They’re basically rebooting the franchise. We’re rebooting for television. They’re doing it for sort of a new generation of, you know, of comic book readers.

So we’re kind of charged with the same task, you know, in terms of taking what was there, the foundation of what was there and, you know, just try to honor it and do the best that we can with it for our medium.

So yes, it’s all as cool. I mean, you know, one of the most fascinating things about Constantine to me is that it was the longest-running comic book series. According to my understanding of any imprint of any comic book publisher that was never in its 30-year run, it was never rebooted, it was never renumbered, it was never reissued, you know. It just stayed in continuous publication as a guy who can - who aged on the page, you know, in real-time. And I just think that makes him such a unique character.

And what we’re doing on our show is we’re going back to beginning. We’re basically meeting roughly the same time that you met him in Hellblazer in the very first issue. So our timeline, you know, when people are like “Wow,” you know, in terms of the cancer story and all the great arcs that he has, you know, we just hope and pray that this show has legs because we’ll get to him like we love those arcs, dangerous habits and all the arcs that everybody else is excited about, we’re excited about. And what’s great is that we’re choosing an entry point where the character is young and all those adventures are ahead of him and we hope to dramatize as many of them as we possibly can.

What is the second half of that question, David? I don’t remember.

Goyer: Oh, network censorship or not - how was it - it’s not network censorship, per se, but it’s - I think has it been a challenge to sort of ride the line between, I guess, broadcast standards and coming up with something that’s scary and suspenseful. Right?

Cerone: Yes, but, look, we could give you, you know, if you read the network’s standards that we get, it’s like “Can we please not hear him urinating? It’s okay to urinate on screen but as long as we don’t hear it.” Or there’s a shot where Zed is like painting this young guy and he’s nude - like a nude model and it’s like “He can be nude but can we see him from the sides so we don’t see his butt crack because it’s like - it’s okay he’s nude but we just - we can’t see the crack.” So it’s - those are the kind of - those are the censorships...

Goyer: It’s not too bad. Yes.

Cerone: No, it’s not at all. It’s not at all.

I was wondering since there are other shows where someone hunting demons like Grimm and Supernatural, do you do things - is there anything that you do to make sure that you’re not inadvertently copying them or do you have someone watching for that kind of thing or just do your own thing and hope for the best?

Goyer: Well, first of all, let me just say that, you know, taking nothing away from those shows, I think what’s fundamentally different about our show versus other shows like Supernatural is the John Constantine character. He’s amazing character.

And with all due respect to those shows, he was around a lot long - a lot earlier than they were. And I know there’s, you know, some people have said “Oh, this is the character on Supernatural” that Constantine is like that character was influenced by Constantine, not the other way around. And he’s been around for 25, 30 years.

So I think once people see a few more episodes under their belt, particularly the episode that’s going to air Friday night, I don’t think - it’s a very, very, very different show than those shows. And I also think there’s room for all of that.

Cerone: I will say this, though, as a storyteller, you can’t pay attention to what other people are doing on similar shows. I think that’s where you get into trouble, frankly, because if it’s in your head, “Oh, they did this creature” or “They did this scare” or “They did this sort of legend or mythology.”

You know, then you start comparing yourself and, look, we’re just trying to channel the character John Constantine as clearly as we can. I mean, funny, one of the first shows that I came in on as a young writer was Charmed and I spent, like, the first four years of my career on Charmed. You know, we’re doing this on Charmed before they were doing it on Supernatural. The X-Files was doing it before us. Buffy was in the middle of it all. You know, all you can do is trust your characters, you know. That’s, hopefully, what people are tuned in to every week and, you know, within that framework, we try and tailor, you know, we might do a vampire story or a zombie story. In fact, look, we’re doing - you know, there’s elements of a zombie coming up for us but look at filtered to the world of Papa Midnite. So it’s voodoo zombie. It’s more old school, you know, raise and assault and, you know, bring in, you know, recently-deceased humans back. It’s not the sort of zombie - apocalyptic zombie virus that we’re all accustomed to.

So, you know, we’re always going to spin it through our filter and - but you can’t worry about what other people are doing and really tell good stories. I don’t think.

What are you doing to really help the non-comic book fans, how could they best get into the show because you’ve got to have - and you talked about this a little bit before, you’ve got to have that contingent in order to make this show a success on the network.

Cerone: Yes. Look, I actually think in the whole wide spectrum. I actually feel like we’re tipping closer to creating the show for the non-fan and the fan, truthfully, because there isn’t a single episode or story we tell where we’re just not seeing down to tell a coherent story and every week introduce a danger and characters that you can relate to and care for and, at the same time, you know, we’re trying to spin out this, you know, the central character of John Constantine as someone who is fully of aches and pain and guilt and torment and is going about doing something because he feels personally compel to do it.

I feel like everything we’ve served and talked about this phone call is, you know, it is a little inside baseball. I mean, for anybody who knows of this, you don’t have to know of the character Papa Midnite. You don’t have to know about The Newcastle Crew. You don’t have to know about Felix Faust or the Doctor Fate Helmet or any of these elements that we’re using to enjoy the show. I mean, every week, we’re just trying to tell the most sort of honest and accessible and humanistic stories that we possibly can.

But there’s an added layer on top of that for the comic book fan where if you know the world, if you know John Constantine, if you know Hellblazer, if you know some of the iconic images and people on the DC world, it’s value added. It’ll provide that much more entertainment and fun hopefully.

Goyer: And I would say one more thing, like, let’s talk about, for instance, the introduction of Jim Corrigan, who’s a character the comic book fans will know. You know, the working rule of thumb that we’ve gone by is, you know, as fans, it’s exciting for us to introduce a character like that and we know it will be to the comic book fans but...

Cerone: Tell [the reporter] who he is.

Goyer: I will in a second. He becomes another DC character called The Spectre as supernatural figure ultimately. But the point is it’s fun for us as fans to say “Hey, let’s get this character in there.” But we don’t want to do it just as a stunt cast and we won’t do it unless it’s organic to the story and we can introduce the character in a way that people who never read the comics will understand who he is and won’t be lost without his back story.

So we have to make sure that every time we introduce a character or a plot element like that, we can do it in a way that stays true to the source material but doesn’t alienate the broader audience and they feel like they’re missing out or they don’t understand the story because they haven’t read the comic books.

Cerone: And, you know, Jim Corrigan is a great case study. I mean, if I can sort of present for an instant, like, how the Jim Corrigan character came into being on our show, for Episode - it’s Episode - it’s called “Danse Vaudou.” It airs not this Friday but a week from Friday. We did an episode where we’re like all right, we want to do - let’s start it with urban legends. And like, look, there’s a perfect example. Everybody does their urban legends or like “Let’s sort of do just” - but we’re not going to call them urban legend. Let’s just do - let’s just bring some urban legends to life and let’s do serve a thematic urban legend episode.

And we basically decided to do three of them. One was like the vanishing hitchhiker. One was the slit-mouthed woman. That’s like the woman who carries a surgical mask in Japan. And the third was - what’s that third character? There’s the hitchhiker, the woman - oh, it was the golden - what is it, the golden - it’s the golden paw. What is it? The monkey’s paw basically...somebody’s loved one comes back.

So we decided to have three ghost stories and all based loosely on those urban legends. And they all end up being ghosts that are brought to life by Papa Midnite unknowingly because of the rising darkness. So within the context of the episode, we realized we needed to cap character. There is a cap that, you know, was coming across various dead bodies that were connected to his ghost. And so we’re like, “All right, we’re going to expose a police officer to the supernatural world here.” And so right away we’re like “All right, is there anyone in the DC world that we can plug into that could, you know, sort of” - again, it’s a value added. Kill two birds with one stone and we thought “Well, Jim Corrigan is this cop, very much like Constantine, kind of takes the law in his own hands, you know, really hard charging, will do anything, you know, for the arrest and he ultimately is killed and comes back as The Spectre character.” We’re like “What if we meet him now as a cop. He can come into this case. He can see those” - you know, we’re sort of seeing like a bit of the origin story of Jim Corrigan where he sees the supernatural world open to him for the first time.

And so, you know, A, we’re introducing Jim Corrigan; B, we’re giving John Constantine a friend of the force for future episodes, and that’s just sort of how that happened. But it came from very organic story, different place. It wasn’t about servicing DC fans. It was literally about just trying to tell a good story.

Can you talk about working with Bear McCreary about the inclusion of kind of tech specialist in the funk music so far?

Goyer: I’ll - this is David. I’ll start. I mean, Bear - this is the third time I’ve collaborated with Bear. Most recently, he does the score for my other show, Da Vinci’s Demons. He actually won the Emmy last year for it.

And so as soon as Constantine, the pilot was going, I think I just said to everyone Bear is doing it. There’s no - there’s not going to be a conversation. He’s doing it.

Bear is also a huge, huge Hellblazer fan. And one of the things that’s great about Bear is he’s incredibly versatile. I mean, his score for The Walking Dead is nothing like his score for this, nothing like his score for Battlestar, nothing like a Da Vinci’s Demons.

We also used, which is unusual, a full orchestra on the show. A lot of people just go with sense and, you know, might have one or two instruments. We have a full orchestra.

And if you want to handle the funk thing, Daniel, it’s sort of part and partial. That speaks to a character when John Constantine was introducing the AAP. He was part of that funk scene. He used to be part of a funk band, which we referenced in the last episode and we thought even though it’s bit anachronistic, it would be fun to still utilize a lot of that funk music whenever we’re using, you know, source pieces.

Cerone: But, you know, look, here’s the deal. I mean, John Constantine was funk. I mean, it’s as simple as that. I mean, he’s - you know, it just so that ecstatic just so embody his, you know, that of rebellious ecstatic, free-thinking completely embodies who John Constantine is and, look, I have a 13-year-old daughter who just - that’s all she listens to is funk. So, I mean, I don’t think, you know, I don’t even think it’s throwback really. I think it’s just, you know, it’s such a part of sort of culturally now, you know, the music scene and there’s so many shoots of it. I just think it’s, you know, so to bring that into the show as a flavor just felt like a really honest thing to do.

Like David said, look, when John left home in the comics in his timeline, I think he went straight into the London, you know, underground funk scene and yes, that’s all long gone but that doesn’t mean that, you know, as a character, that can’t be a music and that can’t be his musical style because it just feels honest to who he is. And for us, it’s a lot of fun to try to find cuts that we can use for the show.

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- Cómo y por qué la serie de "Constantine" se está haciedo más oscura (IGN):

Cómo y por qué la serie de "Constantine" se está haciedo más oscura
By Chris Tilly 17 Nov 2014

Hellblazer is the latest comic book to get a small-screen makeover, with Constantine hitting NBC in the States and Amazon Prime Instant Video in the UK last month. Matt Ryan plays the titular wise-cracking demon hunter and master of the occult, and this week we got the chance to speak to the actor about everything from the Newcastle crew and Mucus Membrane to Dangerous Habits and a potential movie spin-off...

IGN: How does it feel to be a comic book hero?

Matt Ryan: It’s pretty cool. It’s a dream job, right? My research for this role was going to the gym and reading comic books. I’m having a whale of a time and I’m really enjoying it. What a character to get to know and get under the skin of!

IGN: You hadn't read Hellblazer before you got the part so have you caught up with all of John's backstory now?

Ryan: Not all of it. I’ve still got about 150 comics to read. Because of the schedule and the time it takes to shoot an episode, it’s hard to have a really good run at things because I’ve got so much work to do. Once we’d started I had to put them to the side. But I try to carry a comic book around with me and flick through it every now and then. I think it’s really important to keep a line to the comics and keep rooted in the DNA of what they are.

IGN: What's the appeal of John Constantine?

Ryan: The thing that cracks me up about him – and this is why readers love him so much – is his sense of humour. Last episode A Feast of Friends – which is directly from a Hellblazer comic – I think that that is where we really find the tone of John. The juxtaposition of it being really dark and twisted and the fact that John can crack a joke in the middle of it. There needs to be that juxtaposition otherwise it just becomes popcorn. And we’re really trying to work towards getting that. I think the more episodes that we do the stronger we’re getting that and the darker it gets. The humour works even more then.

IGN: Do you have a favourite Constantine skill or character trait?

Ryan: His cunning and his wit. I think that we’ll be doing more of that. He doesn’t use magic all the time – he’d rather trick someone. That’s my favourite part of him really – that he uses his wits rather than the skills he has up his sleeve. And that’s something that we veer towards as we go down the line.

IGN: They had you pretty much naked, covered in blood and singing in a recent episode – should we expect more of that madness as the season goes on?

Ryan: I think that the writers sit in the writer’s room and say ‘What can we do to Matt Ryan this week?’ But I love all that stuff because it’s great and you can have a laugh and really get into it. Though sometimes when you’re walking round in a g-string soaked in blood all day… it’s funny. There’s lots of stuff like that coming up – they put me through the ringer on this show. You can see John go through a lot. Which is great because that’s what happens in the comics. He goes through a lot. He’s got this enormous amount of baggage, and it’s great to see that played out onscreen.

IGN: There’s already been mention of John’s band Mucus Membrane – are you musical and if so, any chance we’ll see them in action?

Ryan: Yeah I am musical. I play guitar. What’s great is the guy who is playing Gary Lester in this week's episode is an old frond of mine, Jonjo O’Neill, who I worked with at the royal Shakespeare Company 10 years ago. And when I heard he was up for the part I told him he’s got to get it because Gary was in the band as well. So when we were shooting the episode we were like ‘We should do a version of Venus of the Hardsell!’ It’s not 100% on the cards now but it would be something really fun to do. So hopefully we’ll get to have a bit of fun with that.

IGN: Hellblazer favourite Jim Corrigan appears soon – what can you tell us about that character?

Ryan: Well Jim Corrigan is a New Orleans homicide detective and he stumbles across a supernatural event so-to-speak and his world is thrown into bits. He and John cross paths and at first they go at logger-heads because he doesn’t believe this world. What’s good about Jim and John – that duo – is that they both kind of want the same thing, but they both go about it in completely different ways. They’ve both got dark souls. And they both deal with that darkness in a different way as well. With Jim it’s quite heavy, and with John he’s developed this armour of lightness. Obviously with John it’s a lot deeper rooted. The darker the problem, the lighter he is. But then when you do open that shell in him it’s an outpouring – there’s so much sh*t in there. And in later episodes we really get into all that stuff as well and it’s really been great to play all that dark stuff.

IGN: I know you’re a fan of the Dangerous Habits comic run, in which John discovers that he has terminal cancer – why does that storyline appeal?

Ryan: There’s a great line in the comic... I think it’s in The Family Man run, where he says “I can deal with demons, angels, devils – I can deal with all those, but people…” I think there’s something real about the fact that he’s got cancer. He’s dealing with his mortality. What I love about it is the way he goes about it. You really find out how his mind works. He’s completely lost and through instinct finds a way out of it. That’s John Constantine. You put him in a corner and you squeeze him and he’ll find his way out. There’s something in him – he’s a great escape artist. I love the element of how he tricks the devil. And the fact that he’s actually dealing with his own mortality. It’s something that’s very real and horrible in the world. It’s such great writing to do that in this supernatural world. To give John this problem and then for him to deal with it in a supernatural way. It’s just awesome.

IGN: Is there any chance we’ll see John travelling to Newcastle or London?

Ryan: Well, we’ve introduced Gary Lester. We’ll be introducing Anne-Marie. If we go past 13 episodes we’ll be introducing Judith. What we’re doing is introducing slowly the Newcastle crew, and what ‘s great is that you get a different element of John through each of these characters because of the different relationships that he has with them. And then there is a possibility of us doing the Newcastle episode – what happened there. Hopefully if all goes well we’ll get to it. I’d love for him to travel to London as well and do an episode there. I think that would be great.

IGN: The D.C. universe will be all over the big-screen in the near future – would you like your Constantine to be involved at some point?

Ryan: What’s so great is that there’s so many great storylines and the Justice League Dark stuff as well. How fantastic would that be if we could do something like that? Obviously those things are out of my hands, so we’ll see.

IGN: You’ve talked about a good mate of yours who loves John Constantine and has been talking you through this whole process. What has he made of the TV show now that it’s airing?

Ryan: He likes it. So far from what he’s seen. He’s seen elements that he likes and elements that he doesn’t like. For any show at the beginning of it you’re kind of finding your feet and setting the tone. All the elements of production and writing and acting are gelling together to find the tone of the beast that you’re making. He’s been really complimentary to me – I don’t know if that’s because he’s my friend – I don’t think he would though because he’s such a hardcore fan. He thinks that certain elements of the show need improving, and I agree with him. With this kind of show – you have a chance to get better, and that’s happening. Each episode we’re getting stronger, we’re getting darker, we’re getting more into that Hellblazer world. The episode this week really shows that – the kind of shows that we’re trying to make and we are making now. It’s funny though – he’s the one guy I want to impress. I don’t really care about anyone else, I just want him to be happy because I know that he’s such an avid fan. If he wasn’t happy, I’d be very disappointed!

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Los Creadores de Constantine Goyer & Cerone Conjuran a los nuevos y los antiguos fans en la TV
Por Scott Huver 21 Nov 2014

If "Constantine" showrunners David S. Goyer and Daniel Cerone have their way, TV audiences will fall in love with the very same snarky but tortured bastard that took the comic book world by storm three decades ago.

In a conference call with the press, the duo shed new light on the dark, supernatural NBC series, which has debuted to solid ratings and respectful reviews from both the mainstream media and hardcore fans -- and that's just the way they hope to keep it as they continue to interpret John Constantine's mythos and mojo and explore even more corners of DC Comics' occult realm.

On the genesis of "Constantine" as a television project:

David S. Goyer: The genesis of the project is that I had a meeting with Warner Bros. Television -- this is sort of right after "Man of Steel" had come out, and they asked if I would be interested in doing a television show based on a DC property. And so we just started having a general conversation about which one made most sense. The first character I asked about was John Constantine. I've always been a huge fan -- I was reading "Swamp Thing" when he was introduced, and, in fact, I have a letter printed in one of the early issues that he was introduced -- as a fan, I think when I was in high school or something like that.

There were some sort of legal things to sort out initially, and then we start talking about other characters. But eventually Constantine became free and I was really excited... It was refreshing for me to tell a story about an anti-hero as opposed to a hero and he is someone who was really damaged and I just feel like he's one of the great characters of sort of modern literature.

On the connection between comic book storylines and episodes of the show:

Daniel Cerone: We're digging as deeply into the Constantine mythos as we possibly can. In fact, it really is inspiring much of our storytelling. The episode that is airing this Friday, which we're extremely excited about -- "Feast of Friends" is the title, and that's a story that's literally ripped from the pages of "Hellblazer." It is the first story and it brings back Gary Lester, who is John's friend from Newcastle. And it's a fantastic story that translated so well to screen. And I would urge anybody who's listening to this to try to watch it before Friday and get people talking about it because it's our show at its pinnacle and it just set a bar of everything that we hope this show can be and can do.

Before the end of the season, you're going to meet and get to know every one of John's friends from Newcastle that were involved in the sort of faithful exorcism of Astra that led to the external torment of John's soul. And so you're going to meet them all. Papa Midnite, I think, we have now in four episodes. Jim Corrigan comes back for a couple of more. I'm reading an outline right now for Episode -- what is it, 16? -- that includes Terence Thirteen. We have Felix Faust. We have this incredible source material and we want to honor it and dig as deeply into it as we possibly can, and at the same time we're a weekly network show and we have weekly stories. And we're trying to present the best of both worlds in terms of ongoing mythology with the "Hellblazer" and DC world but wrapped around weekly stories the viewers can hook into.

Goyer: We read the responses to various episodes. And I think we have three episodes so far and I know that people seemed to really like the last episode that introduced Papa Midnite, but some people said, "Okay, so now we know what the formula is going to be week after week and we still haven't heard much more about the rising darkness or Newcastle." Well, you're about to with the fourth episode. And we think that's sort of the right time to do it. We're not a fully serialized show. We're kind of a hybrid between standalone and serialized, and we're going to start introducing more back story elements every few episodes or so.

On developing the character of Chas (Charles Halford) for the show:

Cerone: Chas is an interesting character. When David and I developed the show and sat down to figure out what characters do we want in a continuing basis, on one hand Chas was a natural because he's the most constant companion and long-living companion -- maybe the only living companion of John Constantine's. But really he's not much more than the muscle and he's the driver. And so we want to include Chas and he is definitely the strong, silent type -- a very laconic kind of character we wanted to roll out slowly. I know there's been a couple of issues where they dig in his backstory but there's not a lot there. So we've really opening Chas up. We will open him up deeper in Episode 10.

Let's put it this way: in the pilot episode, you see that Chas comes back to life. For some reason, people started translating that to the idea that he's immortal. We promise you he is not immortal. There's a very good reason that he's coming back to life... We do have an episode that involves flashbacks where we basically tell that story and we get to know more about Chas, we can meet Renee and his daughter -- and we dig into that story and figure out what makes Chas tick.

Goyer: Even when the first 13 episodes are down, people will be surprised at how much kind of background we filled in on various characters and even in terms of the relationship with John and Manny and Zed's backstory.

On the decision to eliminate the Liv character played by Lucy Griffiths in the pilot:

Goyer: Honestly, it really wasn't that difficult... I think that the character was flawed in its conception, and obviously we're to blame for that. She was the only major character in the pilot that wasn't from the comic books, and sometimes you make these concessions when you're trying to get a show off and running. And one of the benefits of doing a pilot is you've got this initial downtime after the pilot before you're filming again in which you can think about retooling some aspects. And once we saw the character in action and we started breaking Episodes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, we felt like we were just running into a lot of dead ends. And that's when we decided to go back to the source material and talking about the character of Zed, and I will say I feel like that the vast majority of the audience seems to have felt that the Zed character was a better match for John and seems to have supported our decision.

Cerone: As we dig deeper into the season, as we start talking about possible arc for next season, I would say there's an opening there. Whether it's an opening we'll step through or not, it would have to be organic, it would have to feel right and not feel like a device. But if there's an organic reason to bring her back into the story, we'd love to.

On how Constantine's longtime fan base influences the show's creative direction:

Goyer: I've adapted quite a few comic book properties now. And it's tricky because I think you have to be really attentive to the fan base. What we talk about is -- but at the same time -- I mean, I'm [paraphrasing] Steve Jobs: You can't give the market what they say they want. You want to give them something that they haven't even thought of. If you give them exactly what they want, they become disappointed by the same token.

The way that we've always tried to measure it is that we've tried to dip in with the fans and be aware of what are the issues that are most important to them, what are the core concepts that are most important, with the characters what are the most important. But we are also cognizant of the fact that if the show is going to flourish and broaden its audience, we need to be able to respond to an audience greater than just the core comic book fans. It needs to work for both audiences.

Cerone: We fell in love with all the things about John Constantine that the fans did, at least based on what I've read of the fans. But we needed that smartass, wisecracking, gallows humor, scruffy, blonde-haired, trench coat-wearing, cigarette-smoking breath with a fatalistic attitude and this deeply humanist point of view for reasons that he doesn't even understand. We like that character. That was someone that just appealed to us. So we're going to be true to that no matter what.

We wanted to stay true to the world and the characters, and then you take that foundation and you have to figure out, "Okay, how can we pour that into a show that can last and sustain itself on a weekly basis?" And NBC had certain desires for the show. They wanted stories that were told every week. For us, it was "Okay, how do we figure out how to both -- as fans, tell the story we want to tell about the evolution of this character and his relationships as well as some closed-end stories to broaden out the fan base?"

Goyer: Because we were fans of the character, when we first met with NBC, we said, "Look, we know that the Keanu movie is out there and it wasn't British and he didn't have blonde hair." And I think that that movie had a lot of great attributes, but because we had fallen in love with the John Constantine as depicted in the comic books, it was our mission to try to bring to life the character that accurately reflected the character we had fallen in love with as possible. So when NBC says, "Well, does he have to be British? Does he have to wear skinny ties and a trench coat? Does he have to be blonde? Does he have to smoke?" we said "Yes." And they said "Why?" And we said, "Because that's the character we fell in love with."

Cerone: Every step of the way, they did ask those questions, too -- like, they were very open and accepting and loving and they wanted to embrace the fans, too, but at a certain point, like when it came to casting, Matt Ryan does not have blonde hair and initially, they're like, "Do we really need to lighten his hair?" And we're like, "Yes, we do." They got the first draft of the script and they saw all of the kind of British euphemisms and colloquialisms written into his dialog and they're like, "That might be off-putting. Does he really need to be British?" Yes, he does. So at every step of the way, we fought for that. And to their credit, they were very open and they understood our passion -- and, I believe, the fans' passion -- for the character.

On whether the network has exercised any censorship on the show's story content:

Cerone: They have pushed us to go bigger. They have pushed us to go darker. They pushed us to go scarier. If I had to broaden a note down to one, it would be, "Just make this as big and scary as possible." That's what they want to see. So it's been really framed for us. We have to do what we do within budgetary limitations and capabilities, but no, they have not censored us at all.

On the pluses and minuses of having an anti-hero lead the show:

Goyer: In some ways, anti-heroes are more fun to write for because they're not bound by the same moral code that the heroes are. And in some ways, anti-heroes are more human, because most of us have variables. Most of us are imperfect. And he's doing what he's doing for fundamentally noble reasons but he doesn't really have a code of conduct. I do think that audiences also like anti-heroes. If you look at House, if you look at Luthor, if you look at Sherlock, I would categorize these characters more properly anti-heroes than heroes. They can be fun and different -- they're not operational. People want to be them and people want to be Superman. I don't think people want to be Constantine because he's kind of a miserable git, but he's also fun.

Cerone: Constantine is doing the right thing but he's doing it for totally humanist reasons. It's one of those fascinating aspects of the character to me is if you ask him why he's out there helping humanity, I'm not even sure he can tell you. Is he doing it because he wants to save lives? Is he doing it because, frankly, chasing demons is a bit of a fix for him and he's just challenging for the next kill? Is he doing it, as he said early in his career, for the women and to get laid? Is he doing it because it's kind of self-empowerment? It's just never really clear. And what's great about him is I don't even think he's clear. But yet, he keeps doing it and he keeps fighting this fight. One of the funnest things is that there's no code of conduct that he operates by. He's doing the good things that all the cops and lawyers and whatever kind of other heroes are out there doing, but there's no checks and balances for him. And that's where he often gets into trouble.

When you ask what makes him relatable, I think that's it because he has a self-sense to himself and he frequently goes over the line and he frequently makes bad calls, and the fact that anyone who gets close to Constantine dies. That has proven itself true for years in the comic books. And very early in our series, you're going to see that, too: where he makes the hard calls and he loses friends over it, sometimes literally. That's kind of his curse and hopefully, that's what it easy to root for him.

On the impact of DC's current New 52 incarnation of Constantine on the series:

Goyer: As the the resident comic book nerd, I would say that the show is almost exclusively influenced by the Pre-New 52 "Hellblazer" comics. If for no other reason then "Hellblazer" ran for 300 issues, and the new "Constantine" is less than 20. There's just not the body of work that exists in terms of what we're influenced by. So without question, and I know this is really inside baseball, but the show is primarily influenced by and inspired by the pre-New 52.

Cerone: We have the whole Constantine canon at our disposal in terms of storytelling. We do look to the newer issues to see if there's interesting story ideas for us or stories that we can use or adapt... It's just like this fantastic car that we've been given the keys to, to take it for a spin and we're doing that on network television. And the writers of the New 52 "Constantine," they're doing the same thing as we are: they're basically rebooting the franchise. We're rebooting for television. They're doing it for sort of a new generation of comic book readers. So we're kind of charged with the same task in terms of taking what was there, the foundation of what was there, and just trying to honor it and do the best that we can with it for our medium.

What we're doing on our show is we're going back to beginning. We're basically meeting [him at] roughly the same time that you met him in "Hellblazer" in the very first issue. So our timeline, when people are like "Wow," in terms of the cancer story and all the great arcs that he has, we just hope and pray that this show has legs because we'll get to them. We love those arcs -- "Dangerous Habits" and all the arcs that everybody else is excited about, we're excited about. And what's great is that we're choosing an entry point where the character is young and all those adventures are ahead of him and we hope to dramatize as many of them as we possibly can.

On distinguishing the series' supernatural take from other contemporary shows set in similar realms:

Goyer: Taking nothing away from those shows, I think what's fundamentally different about our show versus like, "Oh, well, just show people the supernatural," is the John Constantine character. He's amazing character. And with all due respect to those shows, he was around a lot earlier than they were. And I know some people have said "Oh, this is the character on 'Supernatural'" -- that Constantine is like that character [who] was influenced by Constantine, not the other way around. And he's been around for 25, 30 years. So I think once people see a few more episodes under their belt, it's a very, very, very different show than those shows. And I also think there's room for all of that.

Cerone: As a storyteller, you can't pay attention to what other people are doing on similar shows. I think that's where you get into trouble, frankly, because if it's in your head, "Oh, they did this creature," or "They did this scare," or "They did this sort of legend or mythology." Then you start comparing yourself, and we're just trying to channel the character John Constantine as clearly as we can. One of the first shows that I came in on as a young writer was "Charmed" and I spent the first four years of my career on "Charmed." We're doing this on "Charmed" before they're doing [it] on "Supernatural." "X-Files" is doing it before us. "Buffy" was in the middle of it all. All you can do is trust your characters. That's, hopefully, what people are tuned in to every week and within that framework, we try and tailor it: we might do a vampire story or a zombie story. There's elements of a zombie coming up for us, but a look filtered through the world of Papa Midnite, so it's voodoo zombie. It's more old school: raise and bring recently-deceased humans back. It's not the apocalyptic zombie virus that we're all accustomed to. So we're always going to spin it through our filter, but you can't worry about what other people are doing and really tell good stories.

On finding the right balance to please devoted fans and audience members new to Constantine's world:

Cerone: I actually feel like we're tipping closer to creating the show for the non-fan and the fan, truthfully, because there isn't a single episode or story we tell where we're just not sitting down to tell a coherent story and every week introduce a danger and characters that you can relate to and care for, and at the same time we're trying to spin out this central character of John Constantine as someone who is full of aches and pain and guilt and torment and is going about doing something because he feels personally compel to do it -- You don't have to know of the character Papa Midnite. You don't have to know about the Newcastle crew. You don't have to know about Felix Faust or the Doctor Fate helmet or any of these elements that we're using to enjoy the show. Every week, we're just trying to tell the most sort of honest and accessible and humanistic stories that we possibly can. But there's an added layer on top of that for the comic book fan where if you know the world, if you know John Constantine, if you know "Hellblazer," if you know some of the iconic images and people on the DC world, it's value-added. It'll provide that much more entertainment and fun, hopefully.

Goyer: Let's talk about, for instance, the introduction of Jim Corrigan, who's a character the comic book fans will know. The working rule of thumb that we've gone by is, as fans it's exciting for us to introduce a character like that and we know it will be to the comic book fans. He becomes another DC character called The Spectre as supernatural figure ultimately. But the point is it's fun for us as fans to say "Hey, let's get this character in there." But we don't want to do it just as a stunt cast and we won't do it unless it's organic to the story and we can introduce the character in a way that people who never read the comics will understand who he is and won't be lost without his back story.

So we have to make sure that every time we introduce a character or a plot element like that, we can do it in a way that stays true to the source material but doesn't alienate the broader audience and they feel like they're missing out or they don't understand the story because they haven't read the comic books.

Cerone: Jim Corrigan is a great case study. If I can present for an instant how the Jim Corrigan character came into being on our show, for [an episode] called "Danse Vaudou." It airs [Nov. 21]. We did an episode where we're like, "All right, let's start it with urban legends." There's a perfect example: everybody does their urban legends [episode] but we're not going to call them urban legends. Let's just bring some urban legends to life and let's do serve a thematic urban legend episode. And we basically decided to do three of them. One was the vanishing hitchhiker. One was the slit-mouthed woman -- that's like the woman who carries a surgical mask in Japan. And the third was the monkey's paw, basically. So we decided to have three ghost stories and all based loosely on those urban legends. And they all end up being ghosts that are brought to life by Papa Midnite unknowingly because of the rising darkness.

So within the context of the episode, we realized we needed a cop character. There is a cop that was coming across various dead bodies that were connected to this ghost, and we're like, "All right, we're going to expose a police officer to the supernatural world here." And so right away we're like, "Is there anyone in the DC world that we can plug in?" Again, it's value-added, kill-two-birds-with-one-stone, and we thought "Well, Jim Corrigan is this cop, and very much like Constantine, kind of takes the law in his own hands -- really hard charging, will do anything for the arrest, and he ultimately is killed and comes back as The Spectre character." We're like, "What if we meet him now as a cop?" We're sort of seeing like a bit of the origin story of Jim Corrigan where he sees the supernatural world open to him for the first time.

And so a) we're introducing Jim Corrigan; b) we're giving John Constantine a friend of the force for future episodes, and that's just sort of how that happened. But it came from very organic story place. It wasn't about servicing DC fans. It was literally about just trying to tell a good story.

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- Emmett J. Scanlan sobre el convertirse en The Spectre: Me congelé las pelotas en esas mallas verdes (comicbook):

Emmett J. Scanlan sobre el convertirse en The Spectre: Me congelé las pelotas en esas mallas verdes
Por Russ Burlingame 21/11/2014

Emmett J. Scanlan, who can be seen on digital downloads of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy out this week, will make his debut on Constantine tonight as Detective Jim Corrigan, better known to DC Comics fans as The Spectre.

Of course, he isn't God's avenging spirit just yet. Corrigan is just a profoundly determined cop who finds himself facing off against a series of inexplicable events that attract the attention of "Master of the Mystic Arts" John Constantine.

Scanlan joined ComicBook.com to talk about the role, tonight's episode and where he'd like to see Corrigan go from here.

When we first meet Jim Corrigan, he's...not quite by the book. Are we going to get some of his backstory as the season unfolds?

You get glimpses into what he used to do, what he still does, his character, how he conducts his business, how he holds himself, how efficient he is. You know this is a man who eats, sleeps and breathes his work. A man married to his work. Troubled by his demons. But ultimately coming from the right place. Like Constantine himself. You get a brief glimpse into that.

Let's not forget that this is Constantine's story, Constantine's journey, so what you can show and give has to be in partnership with that. What the writers have cleverly done in my opinion is drop in a couple of iconic DC characters to almost prick tease the audience into investing into the series in the long run, even though the show itself does that on it's own, it just adds more to an already full arsenal. I know it has me hooked...

Do you think that they wanted to draw some parallels between Jim and Constantine by making him perhaps a bit more disheveled than we would expect?

Maybe. When David and Daniel talk, you listen. I admit he isn't the same visually as the comic book, but that's not to say his heart and soul aren't true to it. Those boys wouldn't allow that to not be the case. Either would I. In my opinion it doesn't matter what you look like, what matters is what makes you get out of bed in the morning, THAT'S CHARACTER. The reasons why Jim gets out of bed in this show is the same CHARACTER that was given birth too many years ago on the comic book page....

We wanted to stay real to the character while also making it our own. Out of respect and admiration you want it to be as real as you can get, but too also have some creative choices without lobotomising his essence.

I have a beard in the show. As everyone knows comic book Jim was clean-shaven. Last time I checked bearded comic book characters are few and far between.

I thought the beard added age, roughness and experience without having to say a word.

Tom Hardy does that by just standing in a space. You can only hope for that same effect, but the choice was made to at least try to emulate that.

Out of all the accents out there I love the Southern accent. Matthew McConaughey is remarkable to watch. And was an inspiration in choosing a tone to go with. Not to copy it but too pay homage to it. There's a wonderful melancholy feel to the Southern accent. I thought it would be something that would sit nicely with Corrigan. His presence carries a somber weight. It's subtle but it's there. He's a damaged soul. I hear that in the south sometimes. It oozes character.

Jim is a big bourbon drinker. Perhaps that was more a Emmett choice. But f--- it, Jim loves to drink too. I digress.

What books did they give you to read up on the character? It's been a while since Jim was a big player in the DC Universe.

I was given comics books from the very beginning. The wonderful cheesy comics of The Spectre, to the more modern, hard hitting darkness you expect from DC. I was even given a Spectre statue. First thought was, "those are some tight ass green pants, I'd freeze my balls off in those"

Is it nice to have the character see the supernatural fairly quickly, so that you don't have to spend too much time going through the motions of being in denial and all that?

You got one episode to establish him, you better do it F---ing quick and do it well...Jim struggles. He does. He comes from a very black and white background. The son of a preacher man. A man who has shunned God in a last ditch 2-finger salute to his abusive father.

When Constantine and Zed are introduced to his life and he realises that it ain't black and white anymore -- that there are things out there that bullets can't stop -- it throws his world into disarray. But he has to quickly realise that impossible is nothing. Instead of fighting it, he embraces it. Or tries to.

What do you think makes him so open to the possibility and adaptable? Certainly he was very against the group at first.

He's a cop. A homicide detective and a very efficient, very good one at that. It's his job to be a chameleon, to absorb the background, to adapt to a situation, in order to bring down his prey. He knows he isn't facing his normal street thug. Jim's a hunter, and all great hunters choose the bait to catch the killer. He chooses Constantine.

Is it weird to be working on a show where the stakes are so high, but...it really doesn't much matter if your character were to die?

It always matters. The day it doesn't matter is the day you choose a project for reasons beyond character, beyond story. And that my friend is a sad f---ing day indeed.

It matters when Jim dies. It matters when he becomes The Spectre. It matters where that can take us. It always matters.

Is it a challenge to keep your performance in the moment when your character is so totally defined by a destiny that you might not even realize this season?

Not at all. The reality is I am Jim Corrigan. Everything else are hypotheticals and "what ifs".... Everything else is a process I don't allow myself to hibernate in.

Is it hard for me as Emmett to live in the moment knowing that like all of us I will die at some point? Maybe not today but some day. Such is my destiny??? No. The same applies.

Present moment awareness is all that matters. None of us can escape our destiny, all we have is now. So if anything, it's a joy being Jim. At this moment. In this moment.

Corrigan isn't a character with a strong connection to Constantine in the comics. Do you enjoy the freedom that gives you to really define it on your own terms?

Of course. It's about jumping off that cliff and building your wings on the way down..... There is great freedom in those choices..

It's magic to play opposite such an enormous iconic figure like Constantine and see where that takes us. Matt loves to play on set. And so do I. He's a f---ing beautiful dancing partner.

Are there any characters you'd like to play off of a little more this season?

I love playing off Matt [Ryan], Michael [J. Shaw], Ang [Celaya] and Charles [Halford]. Anyone else is a bonus. I'll leave that up to Daniel [Cerone] and David [Goyer]. They can steer this one. The excitement of not knowing what happens next or with who is what turns me on the most.


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- Matt Ryan sobre el Debut del Detective Jim Corrigan (accesshollywood):

Matt Ryan sobre el Debut del Detective Jim Corrigan
Por Jolie Lash 21 Noviembre, 2014 11:10 AM EDT

DC Comics character Detective Jim Corrigan makes his debut on NBC's "Constantine" on Friday night.

On the show's Atlanta, Ga., set earlier this week, series star Matt Ryan (who plays John Constantine) told reporters what to expect when the character, played by Emmett Scanlan, crops up.

"John and Jim kind of cross paths on a case and I think what's interesting is Jim is introduced to this world which he doesn't believe. He thinks, 'What the f*** is all this supernatural kind of stuff? How is it real?'" Matt said.

Friday’s "Danse Vaudou" episode sees John, Zed and Chas on a case in New Orleans, where folks appear to be coming back from the dead.

Matt previewed that viewers will be able to see John and Jim, who is working the case too, as two men with similar goals, but different methods.

"What's interesting about their relationship is they both want the same thing, ultimately, but they come at it from different angles and they're willing to sacrifice different parts of themselves, and I think that ultimately, Corrigan wants justice, but that comes from a form of rage and a form of anger. With John, it's complicated. There's those things as well, but there's a lot of other stuff going on as well," Matt said.

"I think that Jim's world is very much based in the real world and John obviously knows about the world beyond ours, so there's whole other kinds of levels to what's going on with John and John uses his humor as a defense mechanism," the actor continued. "He's become really good at kind of just hiding it, whereas Corrigan is someone who I think is – you can kind of see more on the surface, he's a little bit more scarred, but I think that John's problems are probably more deeper rooted, if that makes sense, but he hides them. He hides them well."

This week's episode also sees the return of Papa Midnite (Michael James Shaw), prompting a run in between John and that character, and a little teamwork.

"They're kind of uneasy allies and they need each other, even though they don't like working together," Matt said of John and Papa’s relationship.

"There's a line in there where I say, 'You work within a very narrow framework, you know? Just voodoo,' and then John's a street magician. He's someone who will use whatever he needs and Papa doesn't like that and yeah, there's an interesting conflict between the two of them there, but they need each other as well and they have a fundamental respect for each other's magic, even though they go at each other a bit."


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- Las estrellas de Constantine hablan sobre la oportuna llegada del Det. Corrigan, el gran jefe de Manny y el misterioso pasado de Zed (TVLine):

Las estrellas de Constantine hablan sobre la oportuna llegada del Det. Corrigan, el gran jefe de Manny y el misterioso pasado de Zed
Por Kimberly Roots y Andy Swift / 21 Noviembre 2014, 9:36 AM PST

Det. Jim Corrigan first shows his face in this Friday’s Constantine, but the spectre of his involvement with John’s gang will loom large for episodes to come. (Fans of the DC Comics will see what we did there. Everyone else, well, you’ll get it eventually.)

During the hour, Constantine & Co. travel to New Orleans to investigate a string of crimes. Corrigan (played by Irish actor Emmett Scanlan) is a local cop who witnesses something he can’t believe and eventually, reluctantly accepts help from John, Chas and Zed.

TVLine recently took part in a media tour of the NBC series’ Atlanta set to find out what’s ahead for the demon-stuffed drama. Stars Angelica Celaya, Harold Perrineau and Charles Halford gave a group of reporters the inside track, starting with Corrigan’s entrance in Friday’s “Danse Vaudou.”

DON’T MESS WITH CHAS | Constantine’s right-hand man “doesn’t like anybody messing with John,” Halford says. So when Corrigan “comes in pretty heavy and gets in our way of doing our job,” it rankles the quiet Chas. “He’s just so arrogant,” Halford adds, noting the irony. “It’s funny because, so is John.” And while Chas and Jim don’t end the hour tossing back beers, “Chas is accepting of who his friends accept,” Halford says. “I’d say the door is open to a friendship there.”

WHAT’S GOING ON IN ZED’S HEAD? | Friday’s episode will give us a taste of Zed’s mysterious back story — and you might be surprised by whom she chooses to open up a little. “Let’s just say that maybe John is the last one to find out about Zed’s past,” Celaya says, laughing.

YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET | Remember how much taking on Gary Lester’s addiction messed Zed up in the previous episode? Prepare for much, much worse. “Oh my God, in the cliffhanger for our break, there’s a way bigger connection than Gary Lester,” Celaya says. “Way bigger. More powerful.”

A MANNY WITH A MISSION | Let’s back up a minute, here: Exactly who or what tasked Manny with getting all up in John’s spiritual grill? “I wonder that, myself,” Perrineau says. Who appointed him? Or did he appoint himself? He clearly has his own agenda, and as the season goes on, you’ll find out more about that.”

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS? | That wink-wink vibe between John and Zed? Yeah, you’re not imagining it. “They’re always flirting,” Celaya says. “It’s always there. Zed has been waiting for John for years. He’s finally there. She can’t let him go.”

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- Constantine: Ryan & Celaya Hablan sonre la llegada de Jim Corrigan (Ksitetv):

Constantine: Ryan & Celaya Hablan sonre la llegada de Jim Corrigan
Por Craig Byrne, 21 Nov 2014

Fans of comics' Spectre will be excited to see that the character Jim Corrigan makes his first appearance on NBC's Constantine with tonight's episode, which is called "Danse Vaudou." Emmett Scanlan plays the role of the detective who may or not become a ghostly DC Comics icon at some point.

What can we expect from his arrival? We spoke with actors Matt Ryan (John Constantine) and Angelica Celaya (Zed) about the coming of Corrigan while visiting the set of the series earlier this week.

"John and Jim kind of cross paths on a case, and I think that what's interesting is [that] Jim is introduced to this world which he doesn't believe," Matt Ryan told us. "He thinks 'what the f--- is all this supernatural kind of stuff? How is it real?' There's a great line, I think, where he goes 'How do you know that this is real?' And Emmett's awesome as well. What's interesting about their relationship is they both want the same thing, ultimately, but they come at it from different angles, and they're willing to sacrifice different parts of themselves, and I think that ultimately, Corrigan wants justice, but that comes from a form of rage, and a form of anger."

"With John, it's complicated," Matt Ryan continued. "There's those things as well, but there's a lot of other stuff going on as well, and I think that Jim's world is very much based in the real world, and John obviously knows about the world beyond ours, so there are other levels to what's going on with John. And, John uses his humor as a defense mechanism. He's become really good at just hiding it, whereas Corrigan is someone where you can kind of see more on the surface that he's a little bit more scarred. I think that John's problems are probably more deeper rooted, if that makes sense, but he hides them all."

Could we see Jim Corrigan on the show as a fully-formed Spectre? "I don't know. That's a question for Daniel and David. It'd be great," Ryan deflected.

Jim Corrigan also has an interesting interaction with Angelica Celaya's character Zed. "I think that's when we start seeing Zed really stand-offish," Celaya explained. "Like, 'I've got this under control. I got this.' We're working as a team now. John's over there, doing something; I'm over here, getting information, and I'm dealing with this spirit here… it's a little bit of, like, 'yeah, it's ghosts, huh'?" Something that she sees within the episode about Corrigan throws Zed for a loop. "Jim's past, and the way that he grew up, in a way, that's what Zed wants to do herself, but she never had the courage, as she ran away. They both come up from this troubled childhood, and they both understand each other in a way that Constantine and Zed don't. So, there's a different connection with them, and a different understanding at a different level between them, too."

Tonight's Constantine also forces John to work with Papa Midnite (Michael James Shaw), and Ryan commented about their interaction from "Danse Vaudou" as well.

"I'd say they're like 'frienemies.' They're kind of uneasy allies. They need each other, even though they don't like working together. The one thing I always say is that Papa works within a very narrow framework of just voodoo, and John's a street magician. He's someone who'll use whatever he needs, and Papa doesn't like that. There's an interesting conflict between of them, but they need each other as well, and they have a fundamental respect for each other's magic," Ryan explained.

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- Charles Halford habla sobre cómo el pasado de Chas jugará en 'Constantine' (EW):

Charles Halford habla sobre cómo el pasado de Chas jugará en 'Constantine'
Por Jonathon Dornbush 21 Nov, 2014 at 1:48PM

If you work with John Constantine, there’s a good chance you might not make it out of a job alive.

That’s a refrain John (Matt Ryan) has proven to be true for several weeks on NBC’s Constantine, but death doesn’t always have to mean the end of a friendship for John. His oldest pal, Chas Chandler (Charles Halford), has the uncanny ability to revive himself after a dance with death.

Chas has to take advantage of his gifts on tonight’s episode, “Danse Vaudou.” In anticipation of this larger showcase for the character, Charles Halford spoke with EW about what it’s like to play a guy who can come back from the dead, his history with the comic book source material, and teased about what fans can expect to learn about Chas as the season continues.

EW: Were there specific aspects about this version of Chas that drew you to the show?
CHARLES HALFORD: Well, it wasn’t like I was shopping. [Laughs] I got a breakdown and it worked in my favor. It’s a rare thing being six-and-a-half-feet tall and having a series regular opportunity come across your desk. So I saw it, and when I read the script, they had created sides for it because in the pilot, I’m in all of maybe two minutes of it … and I really liked it. I was relatively familiar with the comic book. I was far removed from it, years had passed, but I knew the content, and it just clicked.

While it hasn’t been explored fully yet, John and Chas’ relationship feels integral to the characters. How do you and Matt Ryan approach this aspect of the show?
Yeah I think that that’s really a vital part of it. Later this season, you get to see how Chas comes to have this ability to survive terrible things, and that bonds them further. In the comics, they go way back, and in our design we go even further back. John is just such a hard one to love when it comes to friendships because they usually don’t last very long. And so that history, understanding John’s lot in life, is a big part of Chas’ involvement with him. In episode 10, we really do explore the relationship, how he affected Chas’ life. You know, Chas has an [estranged] wife, he has a daughter, and neither—well, the wife doesn’t like John Constantine, and it gets worse from there.

I think it’s a nice element because the show is full of loners. And Chas wants to be normal and a family man, but that’s just impossible when you’ve got a friend like Constantine.

John, Chas, and Zed are definitely a gang of loners, and there seems to be even some mistrust between John and Zed. Is it fair to say they’re becoming a makeshift family that’s sorting out its issues?
I think there is a family unit that grows out of that. And the mistrust between John and Zed, it’s a fine line between mistrust and trying to protect her. He knows how things end when people try to get close to him, and I don’t think he enjoys that. Chas fortunately can take the abuse, which is removed from the comics. In the comics, [John] keeps Chas out of trouble so he can have one friend who doesn’t die some horrible, hell-bound death. But yeah there’s definitely a family unit that’s born there. As the season goes on, Zed’s a really big part of our season one arc, getting to know her and what her deal is and helping her figure out who she is and what she can do. And it takes a toll on that family unit.

What has your history been with the original Hellblazer comics?
I’m a huge fan now. I was familiar with the comics going in, but I read them in those early teen years, and outside of the blood, guts, sex, language, and violence that any early teen would appreciate, with all the colloquialisms and British slang, I think some of it was lost on me. But the imagery always stuck with me, and some of the characterizations. Again with the pilot, I was in Atlanta shooting it, we were there shooting it for three weeks, I worked three days. So I was realy just digging into Hellblazer trying to find as much information as I could about the history and try to find out where I could put my footing and really try and ground Chas in me and meet him halfway.

Is there anything specific from the comics about Chas you’re excited to explore on the show?
There are storylines in the comics where his family is affected by John’s world. At first I was a little apprehensive about this survival ability, but I think they’ve done a really good job in designing it. It’s not something he’s stoked about. It’s almost like an obligation to the world, and that all gets explored. There’s so many different elements that could be brought into it that could pit John and Chas in different corners because they’re best friends. And anybody has issues with their best friends, but they love them in spite of those things.

Now that Chas is out and more active on a case in “Danse Vaudou,” might we see him and Manny interact at all?
He’s aware of Manny and we’ve had this long-running joke, because Harold [Perrineau] and I get on really, really great off-camera, and we’re always just like, “I wonder if we’re actually going to get to play together?” He knows this angel shows up and gives John a hard time, and so he knows about Manny. I hope we have time to explore it because toward these later episodes that we’ve been shooting, Manny does really get interesting. And his and John’s relationship gets really, it’s fun. It’s fun and you don’t know who’s playing who.

Last week’s episode was dark, but it felt like a step in the right creative direction. Is that a trend we’ll see continue with tonight’s episode and in the future?
I think that creatively, we all loved that episode, and we all really love the idea of going in that vein. We’ve got 25-plus years of comics to dig into, and the writers, they’ve read the whole cannon. So we’d ideally like to make it a more serialized show, and there’s elements of that in this first season. I would like, personally, to be able to really dig into some of these great arcs. I would love to see “Dangerous Habits” or “Royal Blood.” I’m not writing it, but I’m still a fanboy.

But I think we’re still finding our voice and trying to meet this cult classic of a fantastic comic book with a network setting. And it’s a bit of a dance. It’s a fun dance. I always looked at is as, you had these fantastic comic book writers throughout the run of Constantine … and everyone of them put their won stamp on Constantine. Even the film, which I have yet to see.

Oh really, you haven’t? Do you know much about it?
Yeah it’s a little bit of a different take on it. But they put their own stamp on it. And I know some comic book fans have taken some serious issue with it, but I know a lot of people who just adore that film that weren’t familiar with the comic book. So I think somewhere in the ether, we’re putting a pretty unique and interesting stamp on the lineage and history of Constantine and Hellblazer, and it’s just a real gift to be able to be a part of such an iconic character.

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- El Elenco de Constantine Habla sobre el Futuro y Más Conexiones con DC Comics (IGN):

El Elenco de Constantine Habla sobre el Futuro y Más Conexiones con DC Comics
Por Charles Halford / 21 Nov 2014

Earlier this week, I was roaming around a mill house packed floor to ceiling with supernatural artifacts and looking at Doctor Fate's helmet. The set of Constantine was dimly lit and the darkness and slight chill in the air made for an appropriately moody environment. While I would have been okay with Atlanta turning up the thermostat several degrees, the ambiance suited the subject matter. Sunny and warm isn't what comes to mind when the topic of demons comes up.

The visit to Constantine's set as part of a media tour group started early in the morning, but it was clear the cast and crew had already been at work for a bit. They were wrapping episode 12 and beginning episode 13. As we got settled just outside the mill house stage, we caught glimpses of Zed filming a scene where she's not in the best of situations. When asked about it later, Angélica Celaya mentioned that Zed's visions are getting stronger, and that's not necessarily a good thing: "As John always says, everything has its consequences. Magic has its consequences and having these visions has consequences, too. The consequences catch up to Zed in all aspects -- in her personal life and and her powers."

Speaking of John and Zed, their chemistry is electric. Celaya said, "They're always flirting. There are always stares. When you really like someone, you don't have to tell them. It's always there. Zed's been waiting for John for years. He's finally there, and she can't let him go." Matt Ryan acknowledged the connection between the characters too: "There is definitely a sexual chemistry between them, as well as the fact that they need each other. And he's using her -- as he does everyone else -- but he becomes attached to her."

Charles Halford said Chas and Zed grow closer as the season continues, and John is part of that. Chas has seen John go through hell and besides the fact that Zed and Chas are putting their lives on the line together, Chas appreciates that she's there for John: "Chas likes having her around for John's sake because Chas has seen John lose so many people. But, the fact that there's somebody that can ground John, that John could care about – I think that Chas is really attracted to that idea because at the end of the day, who doesn't want their friend to be happy?"

At least John doesn't have to worry about losing Chas. Well, probably not. Chas' ability to survive repeated deaths is a change from the Hellblazer comics, and we'll learn more about it in episode 10. Halford explained, "It's a bit of a flashback episode where you meet my wife, you meet my daughter -- which comic book fans will know. In that episode you get to see how Chas got this special survival ability curse slash blessing." He's died a few times on screen already, and Halford said they keep it exciting. "I am constantly impressed by how they decide to kill me in the show, and I look forward [to seeing] just how far we can take that."

Halford is aware of how Hellblazer fans examine differences from the page and realizes it's hard (impossible, really) to make every fan one hundred percent happy: "We're really going after tone. To take a comic and go panel for panel, I think we've seen it happen and it's less accessible to people who haven't read the comics. What we're trying to do is introduce new fans to the comics and then give good service to fans of the comics and try to find a happy medium. If we can maintain tone and deliver some stuff to think about, challenge morality in the way John does, and then color that with some good blood and guts -- then I think that is the best we can hope to achieve and hopefully [the series will] run long enough to explore those big awesome story arcs that the comic provided."

Manny, for example, is a character who doesn't appear in the comics. Harold Perrineau said that even though Manny isn't in Hellblazer, other angels are. He looks to the comics to see what those angels are like, for tone, and for anything that can help him structure Manny. The guardian angel is constantly around, and we will see more about his intentions. "I wonder myself who appointed him or if he appointed himself because he clearly has his own agenda and as the season goes on, you'll find out more about that... You'll see what he's looking for. You'll see the rising darkness and what Manny's trying to figure out." Perrineau teased that Manny will eventually talk to someone else other than John and that he will interact with other angels.

Stories in the television show may not be an exact adaptation of the comic, but they're clearly a big part of the show. The episode "A Feast of Friends" was quite close to what was presented in Hellblazer #1 and #2. And then there's Newcastle. Constantine has its own spin on the story, and though we may see a flashback to the events that lead to the loss of Astrid eventually, we will definitely be meeting at least one other member of the Newcastle group in episodes 8 and 9. Ryan's excited for viewers to see that two-parter. "They're my favorite episodes so far. They got the right balance of it being really dark and humorous at the same time, and I think that for the show it's imperative that you have that. It is rooted in that really dark, twisted world but at the same time, John can say something completely and utterly irreverent in the middle of it."

Ryan followed up with a bigger tease of a possible future. "I'd say the biggest tease I can give is that there is some stuff coming up if we go beyond 13 episodes." He didn't give specifics but said, "It's exciting stuff to do with the comics, and I know they're not holding back in terms of the DC universe and where we're going."

In the more immediate future of tonight's episode, "Danse Vaudou," we meet Jim Corrigan for the first time. Constantine, Chas, and Zed encounter Corrigan as they investigate fishy business in New Orleans. Ryan says Corrigan and Constantine share commonalities: "I think what's interesting about their relationship is they both want the same thing, but they come at it from different angles and they're willing to sacrifice different parts of themselves. Ultimately Corrigan wants justice but that comes from a form of rage and a form of anger, with John, it's complicated. Jim's world is very much based in the real world, and John obviously knows about the world beyond ours so there's whole other levels to what's going on with John."

The introduction of Corrigan also starts to bring up some of Zed's backstory. She opens up and talks to Jim, and that's not usual for her. She connects to him because they both have family issues. Celaya said, "They both come up from this troubled childhood, and they understand each other on a level that Constantine and Zed don't. There's a different connection with them and there's a different understanding between them."

Zed's family has an interesting role in the Hellblazer comics, and some of that is coming to Constantine. Celaya mentioned that Zed came from a family where she had no voice; she's just now learning to stand up for her beliefs and she's obviously not shy about telling John what's what. We will learn about Zed's history with the cult and see some interactions in the present day. Celaya said, "You meet one member of my family. And members of the clan. Interesting encounter with one of them, actually. Very interesting."

Jumping back to the upcoming episode, Papa Midnite is returning and it won't be his last appearance in the series. Even though he and John are often at odds, they sort of get thrown together. Ryan said, "They're kind of uneasy allies, and they need each other even though they don't like working together." He explains Papa works within a very narrow framework with only voodoo while John's more of a street magician. “He's [John's] someone who uses whatever he needs and Papa doesn't like that and there's an interesting conflict between the two of them. But, they need each other as well. They have a fundamental respect for each other's magic even though they go at each other a bit."

Before leaving the set, production designer Dave Blass showed us around Constantine's mill house, and there were a staggering amount of items crammed onto the bookshelves and on top of the surfaces – in a good way. The place rocks the comfortable, lived-in feeling while being entirely creepy. As we saw in "A Feast with Friends," the cozy appearance of the mill house is deceiving. It's rigged with traps, and the set is designed so that hallways and doors can be repurposed to give the place that bigger on the inside vibe.

Blass pointed out the Easter eggs we've seen in the series so far as we explored. There's Doctor Fate's helmet, Pandora's Box, and we even spotted a Zatara poster. Blass said there's at least one Easter egg in each episode (episode 12 has an Easter egg somehow connected to The Flash pilot episode) and called out a particular item no one's noticed yet: a necklace Zed wears. Keep your eyes open.

He also discussed altering the phone number on Constantine's business card. You know, the one he keeps muttering about changing. He suggested making it a working number and having Ryan record different messages for Constantine's voicemail. So, if you've already called the number, do it again. Blass said the message changes periodically and that Ryan recorded 10-15 options.

Finally, we stopped by makeup and the visual effects department and saw some teases for episodes 8 and 9, but I'll get cursed if I reveal any details. Nobody wants that. I can say that it was related to a gruesome thing.


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- Descripción oficial del 1.08 "The Saint Of Last Resorts":

1.08 "The Saint Of Last Resorts": UNA VIEJA AMIGA PIDE LA AYUDA DE JOHN CUANDO UN DIABLO ANTIGUO EMERGE EN MEXICO – CLAIRE VAN DER BOOM ESTRELLA INVITADA -- Una llamada de Anne Marie (la estrella invitada Claire van der Boom), miembro del equipo del fatídico Newcastle, manda a John (Matt Ryan) y Chas (Charles Halford) a Mexico City y los lleva más creca de la fuente de The Rising Darkness. Mientras tanto, el pasado de Zed (Angélica Celaya) empieza a perseguirla.

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- Constantine 1.06 "Rage of Caliban " Promo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO06IxBXSpY



Añadidos los enlaces y rátings del 1.05 "Danse Vaudou". Podéis encontrarlos AQUÍ.

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- Nuevas BTS stills del 1.05 "Danse Vaudou":





- Constantine - 1.05 To Hell and Back: "Danse Vaudou" Featurette (Digital Exclusive):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELBDBua4k3w


- Constantine - 1.05 Spiritual Release (Episode Highlight):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YBMlG3cT5k

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- Stills del 1.06 "Rage of Caliban":

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- La S1 de "Constantine" tendrá sólo 13 episodios. La S2 es aún posible:

El nuevo drama de la NBC "Constantine" tendrá una primera temporada de tan sólo 13 episodios.

El elenco y el equipo fueron informados este viernes de que la producción de la serie se detendría tras completar la orden inicial de 13 episodios, a pesar de la esperanza que se tenía de que la cadena ordenara otros 9 episodios adicionales que le darían una temporada completa de 22, conservando su horario de los viernes a las 10 PM.

La NBC tuvo que tomar la decisión si mantener Constantine en producción o no con muy poca información sobre los rátings. Aunque la serie comenzó la producción según el calendario habitual de los estrenos de otoño, su estreno fue retrasado hasta finales de Octubre, cuando la NBC normalmente estrena sus series de género los viernes, así es que la cadena tuvo que decidir si ordenaba episodios adicionales o no tras sólo cuatro episodios emitidos, en lugar de los habituales siete, que suele ser la norma para las series nuevas.

La serie no ha sido el bombazo que se esperaba en cuanto a rátings, pero en esta última semana su audiencia ha subido un 38% y la serie tiene una base leal de fans, lo que se comprueba al con la subida de los rátings con los datos de DVR, como la más reciente subida del +81% en Live+3 para el Episodio 4.

NBC ha apoyado a la serie, emitiendo un maratón de episodios en su cadena hermana de cable Syfy este fin de semana (lo que motivó algunos rumores que apuntaban a la creencia de que la NBC podría trasladar la serie a esta cadena) y estableciendo que los miembros del elenco de la serie aparezcan en la emisión de la cadena de la Cabalgata de Thanksgiving de los Macy´s la próxima semana.

El contar con una temporada más corta, también podría deberse a la emisión de la serie "Hannibal" que ha sido renovada en su tercera temporada.

Pese a todo, no significa que la serie vaya a ser cancelada, ya que la cadena aún considera posible la renovación de la serie para una segunda temporada, ya que Constantine tiene mayores rátings que Hannibal y continúan subiendo, aunque la decisión sobre su futuro no llegará probablemente hasta Mayo y se tomará dependiendo de cómo vayan los ocho episodios que aún quedan.

Mientras tanto, corred la voz sobre la serie, para que ésta tenga más posibilidades de renovación para una próxima temporada. Su mayor oportunidad está ahora en las manos de los fans.


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