TNT President reveals progress on DC Comic's Titans TV Show - Nightwing, Starfire, Raven All Set to Feature

TNT President reveals progress on DC Comic's Titans TV Show

Nightwing, Starfire, Raven All Set to Feature

By Alex Burns

 

TNT president Kevin Reilly has given an update on the Teen Titans live-action adaptation. Little has been revealed about the series since it was initially announced in September. We do know, however, that the show will follow a band of young superheroes lead by Nightwing/Dick Grayson, the former Robin. Akiva Goldsman (Batman & Robin, A Beautiful Mind, Fringe) is acting as executive producer and also wrote the pilot episode with Marc Haimes.

Starfire

There's an abundance of Superhero shows on television and Netflix right now, just yesterday CBS have released an Official Trailer for Supergirl, that will head up primetime alongside "The Flash", "Arrow" and "Gotham" to name a few. So it's becoming a pretty crowded and competitive market, in the wake of The Avengers' success at the box office, networks are keen to get a slice of that market. Rilley explained how he wants to make sure Titans differentiates itself successfully from the rest of these superhero shows.

Raven

“I sat down with Akiva and said — and he ultimately agreed — that the [TV] landscape right now is well-serviced on the superhero front. So what space is this going to inhabit?” Reilly told TVLine, adding what Goldsman really "wants to do is be very true” to the source material.

Reilly mentioned that Titans “was a groundbreaking property when it first started,” and so there is a good chance it can find its own place, saying, “There were consequences to things that happened; it wasn’t somebody died and they moved on. There was the first superhero to be an addict [in Roy Harper’s Speedy]. It’s a coming-of-age story for Robin, who feels like Batman has betrayed him."

Nightwing will be estranged from his mentor, Batman, in the series

Titans will begin with Grayson suiting up as Robin as he patrols the streets of Boston before his expected transition into Nightwing. The rest of the team has also been announced and includes Starfire, Barbara Gordon, Hawk/Hank Hall and Dove/Dawn Granger and Raven/Rachel Roth, we are still awaiting casting announcements on all these heroes. Beast Boy and Cyborg, who are founding members of the team in the comics and animated series, will not be featured in the Pilot, with the later set to appear in the upcoming Justice League film played by Ray Fisher.

We're certainly excited at the prospect of seeing the Teen Titans in live-action, whether TNT can make the show as big a success as The CW have with "The Flash" and "Arrow" remains to be seen. We'll keep you covered with any updates, so keep it locked here at Cape and Cowl for everything Superhero.