Hellblazer

Pretty cool, huh? Looks like it’s going to be about some kind of giant. Like, a really rich giant. That eats castles. Oh, they mean the guy in the trench coat. Not the emperor. Well. I guess in this getup Matt Ryan looks, at least superficially, like John Constantine. He’s way too clean, and that smoke suspiciously isn’t coming from a cigarette, but it’s certainly more faithful to comic book Constantine than the Keanu Reeves version was. And Sting, the person Constantine’s appearance was based on, is too old to do it. The producers of the pilot are also making the right noises. David S. Goyer told Variety that this version would be faithful to the comics. “I’ve been a fan of John Constantine since he was first introduced in 1985. This Constantine, envisioned by Neil Marshall and embodied by Matt Ryan, looks like he sprang directly from the comics’ covers. Fans old and new are going to be in for a treat,” Goyer said. But I’m skeptical that a