There’s been little word regarding the upcoming Teen Titans based television series on TNT since it was announced a few months back. The only aspect we knew for sure was that Nightwing would be the leader.
Now according to The Nerdist, who received casting information for the pilot, this is the line-up that will grace the first episode:
Nightwing
Oracle
Hawk and Dove
Raven
Starfire
While all of these characters have appeared in animated form in some aspect or another, only Oracle has shown up in live action before (in WB’s short-lived Birds of Prey), though of course Dick Grayson has been represented multiple times as Robin in various media.
According to the report, Hawk and Dove will be based on their New 52 iterations and are a romantic pairing. Also, the pilot script never actually refers to Barbara as Oracle, though she serves as the “computer hacker” of the team.
The lack of Beast Boy/Changeling and Cyborg may surprise some, though with the upcoming film already scheduled for the latter and his participation in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Vic Stone has surely graduated to the big squad on a permanent basis.
It’s very likely that TNT’s Titans will air sometime before the end of 2015.
Interesting line up. More street level without cyborg or breakout. It reminds a little of how Heroes worked on some ways.
Beastboy not breakout.
I’m surprised the pilot isn’t using the recent Earth One graphic novel as a blueprint. I thought it was quite good and streamlined the Titan’s origin very nicely, eliminating the whole sidekick angle that (to me) makes it difficult to translate this concept to other media.
I need to pick that up at some point. I’m a big Lemire fan and glad to hear positive words about it.
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