For a character who had his own show canceled after just one season, years later Matt Ryan’s take on DC’s snarky English spellweaver John Constantine is still surprisingly flourishing. Along with guest-starring on Arrow and a full-time turn on Legends of Tomorrows, Ryan’s Constantine even got his own animated show—which is now being turned into a movie.
The CW launched the first five episodes of its Constantine series on its CW Seed streaming service earlier this year, but it left Constantine’s latest adventure—helping an old friend save his daughter from a mysterious demonic coma after a tragic accident—unfinished. Now, on top of the material released as those five episodes, it’s been turned into Constantine: City of Demons, a 90-minute movie that actually finishes the story the show began. [Source]
News: Constantine is Being Turned into a Full Movie
News: Matt Ryan Promoted to Series Regular on Legends of Tomorrow Season 04!
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow must like that voodoo he do as John Constantine, because Matt Ryan is set to join the CW series as a series regular in the event of a Season 4 renewal.
Having fronted his own Constantine series for NBC during the 2014-15 TV season, Ryan first dipped his wand into The CW’s #DCTV universe with a Season 4 appearance on Arrow. Tonight he makes his second of three Season 3 visits to Legends, as Constantine is presumably called on to help keep Sara out of the demon Mallus’ grasp. With Ryan as a Season 4 cast member, John would join the team members aboard the Waverider.
Ryan also voices Constantine for an animated series that launches on CW Seed this Saturday, March 24. [Source]
News: “Constantine” Animation to Premiere in WonderCon
Saturday, March 24
10:00–11:00 a.m, Room North 200A Constantine World Premiere Screening — This will be the world premiere screening of the first episodes of the animated Constantine series for CW Seed. The series follows John Constantine (Matt Ryan), a seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult. Notable DC EPs on this including Dark Night Trilogy‘s David S. Goyer, DC TV series maestro Greg Berlanti and Riverdale‘s Sarah Schechter. Ryan will be on hand with series writer J.M. DeMatteis and Blue Ribbon Content & Warner Bros. Animation’s Peter Girardi for a Q&A session after the screening. Season 1 streams on March 24 on CWseed.com. [Source]
News: “Legends of Tomorrow” Episode Synopsis
Matt is slated to appear at the end of today’s episode to kick start his 2 episode arch on Legends of Tomorrow. Check out the episode synopsis and make sure to tune in the CW tonight.
FOLLOW YOUR HEART — Rattled by recent events, the Legends dive into work which finds them investigating an Anachronism in a Viking settlement in the New World. The Legends realize that the Norsemen are worshipping an artifact as their god and are surprised by the artifact’s origin. For the first time, Sara (Caity Lotz) is worried that they might need back up when Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough) shows up. Meanwhile, Jax (Franz Drameh) finds a loophole that could potentially change history, but it is a risk he is willing to take.
News: Matt Ryan to Guest Star in Legends of Tomorrow
What are some of the fun eras you’ll visit this season?
We get Billy Zane and the circus [in the second episode]; we get a little Julius Caesar on the beach in Aruba in the premiere. We meet [new team member] Zari in this sort of dystopian future. We get to do a little Amblin alien episode back in the ’80s; we do some Jack the Ripper Victorian London; Golden Age of Hollywood; John Constantine doing an exorcism. We do a Freaky Friday episode. The only thing we haven’t been able to do: We really wanted to do an Abba “Waterloo” in then Napoleonic wars but we could not get the rights for the song. [Source]