Justice League Dark Movies and TV Shows in Development from JJ Abrams

There are no projects on Warner Bros.’ The Flash movie and Justice League Dark. Both have had seemingly countless directors and writers attached over the last few years (with The Flash even cycling through several release dates), and neither have so much as frame of footage to show for it. And while The Flash has now settled down with Andy Muschietti and Christina Hodson on writing and directing duties, Justice League Dark (which once had none other than Guillermo del Toro set to direct) has remained adrift. That might finally be about to change.

Justice League Dark encomes a number of the supernatural and magical heroes and anti-heroes of the DC Universe, including Zatanna, John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Dean, and others. There’s enough characters and rules of dark weirdness that need to be established that this could sustain a little cinematic universe of its own, without necessarily needing ties to the increasingly nebulous DCEU.

Of course, there are a couple of inherent problems here. DC Universe, and it’s difficult to imagine how another TV series could do things better than this one did. Maybe this could mean there’s hope to continue this series, but I wouldn’t count on it.

And then there’s the matter of John Constantine. Matt Ryan has been playing the cynical modern mage on television since 2014. Like Swamp Thing his solo series, NBC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Ryan’s Constantine remains a fixture of that latter show, and while a Hellblazer TV series would certainly work if given the HBO Max treatment it’s almost impossible to picture another actor in the role at this time.

On the other hand, a character like Dean would be unbelievably perfect for a supernatural, R-rated Quantum Leap type TV series, so there’s still plenty of room to play and explore here.

Still, Deadline cautions in their report that it’s unclear if Abrams himself will be involved as director since everything is in such early stages. And when Superman, a character he flirted with in the early part of the 21st Century. We’ll see if anything comes to with Bad Robot and the Justice League Dark corner of the DCU, and we’ll update you if it does.

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