Matt Ryan On The Spectre & Bringing Constantine To The Big Screen

One way Constantine has found to fight its dreadful Friday night slot is to keep introducing new characters that not only are important to our understanding of the main character but also the season arc. This week's episode is no different and John will have convince one Detective Corrigan, best known to comic fans as The Spectre, of this other, more darker world.

"Jim Corrigan is a New Orleans homicide detective and he stumbles across a supernatural event so-to-speak and his world is thrown into bits," tells Ryan to IGN in a recent interview. "He and John cross paths and at first they go at logger-heads because he doesn’t believe this world. What’s good about Jim and John – that duo – is that they both kind of want the same thing, but they both go about it in completely different ways. They’ve both got dark souls. And they both deal with that darkness in a different way as well. With Jim it’s quite heavy, and with John he’s developed this armour of lightness. Obviously with John it’s a lot deeper rooted. The darker the problem, the lighter he is. But then when you do open that shell in him it’s an outpouring – there’s so much sh*t in there. And in later episodes we really get into all that stuff as well and it’s really been great to play all that dark stuff."

The actor goes on to reveal a few other names that Hellblazer fans should know as well as tease the plans to maybe travel to England and revisit just what exactly happened in Newcastle.

"We’ll be introducing Anne-Marie. If we go past 13 episodes we’ll be introducing Judith. What we’re doing is introducing slowly the Newcastle crew, and what ‘s great is that you get a different element of John through each of these characters because of the different relationships that he has with them. And then there is a possibility of us doing the Newcastle episode – what happened there. Hopefully if all goes well we’ll get to it. I’d love for him to travel to London as well and do an episode there. I think that would be great." 

Finally Ryan commented on director Guillermo del Toro's statements about being open to recast him as Constantine for the long awaited Justice League Dark.

"What’s so great is that there’s so many great storylines and the Justice League Dark stuff as well. How fantastic would that be if we could do something like that? Obviously those things are out of my hands, so we’ll see."

Source - IGN

Share on Google Plus