Titans TV Series With Nightwing Reportedly Coming to TNT

The report suggests that the series would be based loosely on (or at least resemble) Marv Wolfman and George Perez’s The New Teen Titans, in which the original Titans “sidekick” Titans were members but many of them had moved past their sidekick roles to adopt personalities and identities of their own. Robin became Nightwing, Wonder Girl eschewed a secret identity altogether and just became Donna Troy, etc.

Akiva Goldsman, who wrote Batman Forever and Batman and Robin as well as less-awful films like The Da Vinci Code and A Beautiful Mind, will write the pilot. Goldsman had previously been attached to a film version of the property that never went forward, although recently rumors started to circulate that a Teen Titans movie was back in development. It seems likely those rumors were confused and that the TV series isn’t being co-developed with an unrelated feature film (although anything is possible).

A kid-friendly animated version of the property, Teen Titans GO!, currently airs on Cartoon Network. It replaced Young Justice on the schedule, reportedly because it appealed more to younger kids and had more merchandising potential. It will probably only be a matter of minutes before Young Justice fans start to speculate the move is related to building the Titans brand for a live-action show.

A younger, Titans-inspired version of the Justice League appeared on The CW’s Smallville.

Cyborg is named in the article specifically, which is interesting considering that the character has already been cast for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. While Bruce Wayne is appearing on Gotham, it’s been made clear that he won’t be Batman and character for whom DC has “other plans” have been left out of Arrow and The Flash, suggesting that the studio remained reluctant to have two different versions of the same superhero existing in live-action at the same time.

Recently, reports surfaced that a Supergirl TV series was being developed by The Flash’s Greg Berlanti. A number of fans have wondered how that show would work without being tied directly to a version of Superman. It would seem that the idea of Dick Grayson operating in a universe without an on-camera Batman would raise some of the same questions.