Back in September 2014, TNT announced the development ofTitans, a live-action superhero series based on theDC Comicstitle Teen Titans. The initial report revealed that the series would center on Batman side-kick Dick Grayson (aka Robin) who emerges from the shadows of The Dark Knight asNightwingto lead his own fearless band of superheroes, which may have included Starfire and Raven. We haven’t heard a whole lot about the development of this show lately, and as it turns out, that was for a good reason.Deadlinereports that the network has decided to not move forward with the project. Here’s what TNT president Kevin Reilly had to say in a statement.
“We decided it wasn’t where we wanted to go.”
Akiva Goldsman(Star Trek Into Darkness) co-wrote the pilot script withMarc Haimes(Men In Black II). We reported in February that Dick Grayson would be introduced in theTitanspilot episode as a Boston detective, after he was betrayed byBatman. The pilot episode was going to end with fans watching his transformation into Nightwing.
That report also revealed a wheelchair-bound Barbara Gordon will be part of the series, which is intriguing since she was never a part of the originalTeen Titansteam in thecomic book. She was going to be the group’s computer specialist, and hacker, having once served as Batgirl. Other character that would have been featured in the series include Hawk and Dove, who would have been romantically linked, along with Raven and Starfire, who was said to have a romantic relationship with Nightwing.
IfTitanswould have made it to series, it would have joined a TV landscape that is suddenly overflowing with superhero characters. The CW is currently thriving withArrowandThe Flash, along with their upcoming seriesDC’s Legends of Tomorrow, set to debut on Thursday, January 21. Fox’sGothamkicks off the back half of its second season next month, ABC hasMarvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.andMarvel’s Agent Carter, and CBS’Supergirlis one of the biggest hits of the new season. Now we’ll never know howTitanswould have fared on TNT.
Titanswas originally scheduled to start production on the pilot episode last summer, but that never happened.Akiva Goldsmanrecently lead the writers room for theTransformersfranchise, and he is also set to lead yet another writers room for Hasbro propertiesG.I. Joe 3andMicronauts. What do you think about TNT pulling the plug onTitans?
