Although the series was cut short, Constantine plans on getting more of the comic’s mythology chronicled before the end…
Executive Producer Daniel Cerone tells CBR that there’s a wealth of comic mythology to harvest and they fully intended on doing just that: “We had such an embarrassment of riches with those comic books.”
“I’m literally just leaving playback right now for episode 12. We utilize a black diamond which has an iconic mythology around that in the DC Universe (see image above). We did our version of the black diamond. Yes, we use the mythology as an inspiration for that episode.”
The gem, called Heart of Darkness in the comics, comes from the planet Apokalips and was a weapon for DC’s version of Thanos, Darkseid. A demon called Eclipso lives in the diamond and uses it to control people. The episode is called Angels and Ministers of Grace and won’t go into any of the things we listed above, but hey, it’s there…
Cerone refers back to Doctor Fate’s Helmet which appeared in the very first episode (see image below): “We were utilizing the helmet — there wasn’t a Fate appearance planned in that episode. We had a big storyline built around the helmet.
“We’ve all been playing around with, ‘Okay, what does the helmet do and how do we use it?’ Once we shot the pilot, it would have been wrong to show it and not use it. It was always our intention to play it off by the end of the season.”
We love Constantine here at FTN and really, really want this story to continue…
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