The Spectre Might Appear On Constantine And Spinoff Into His Own Series

In the previews for the premiere episode of Constantine, there have already been a couple of DC Comics Easter Eggs revealed, such as Doctor Fate’s helmet and the Ibistick of Ibis the Invincible. According to IGN, executive producer David Goyer indicated that the show has DC’s occult universe open to them, and they will be introducing another character from the DC universe, who could spin off into his own series.

While Goyer wouldn’t name the character, executive producer Daniel Cerone did. Here’s what Cerone told IGN.

Right now, episode five is off on outline. Within the context of episode five, we had a need for a police officer who sees that supernatural evils exist. Right there, okay, that’s an opportunity to introduce a DC character. So we talked to our DC representatives and we’re like what if we make this character Jim Corrigan, who goes on the 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, but that’s one idea we’re exploring right now.

Constantine premieres on Friday, October 24, 2014 at 10 PM ET on NBC.