Layer Cake and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag actor will play the cynical occult detective
Warner Bros TV are producing a pilot based on the John “Hellblazer” Constantine character and Deadline reports that they’ve cast Welsh actor Matt Ryan in the role.
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Ryan may be familiar to SFX readers from season two of Torchwood , he was in Criminal Minds in 2010 and 2011, and his voice is that of Edward Kenway in the recent sci-fi pirate videogame Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag .
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The Constantine pilot was written by The Mentalist exec Daniel Cerone from a story co-written with David S Goyer, the chap behind The Dark Knight , Man Of Steel and Da Vinci’s Demons . What are you thoughts on Constantine coming to TV? Do you think Ryan is a good choice? As always, comments welcome below…