Producers of NBC's Vertigo/DC Comics' adaptation "Constantine", are currently in negotiations with DC, to include more costumed superheroes in the series including a character that first appeared in "More Fun Comics" #51, in 1940:
Producers of "Constantine" are talking to DC Entertainment about including 'Jim Corrigan' aka 'The Spectre' on the show.
"Within the context of episode five, we need a police officer who sees that supernatural evils exist", said "Constantine" executive producer Daniel Cerone.
"So we talked to our DC representatives and we’re like what if we make this character 'Jim Corrigan', who goes on to become 'The Spectre'.
"For those who don’t know, Jim Corrigan is a police officer who kind of takes the law into his own hands… he ends up dying and is reincarnated as The Spectre. So it’s a perfect opportunity for us, because we can name this character Jim Corrigan and within our story, for the general viewer, that works, because now Constantine has a friend on the force.
"For the comic book fan, 'My god, that’s Jim Corrigan!' And we can get back to that character and can slowly develop that character and who knows, maybe there’s an opportunity in the future to even see the origin story unfold within the framework of our TV series.
"It creates opportunities and creatively you just have to go in and lay that groundwork in and try and let it unfold naturally. So we’re in the midst of approvals on that..."
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