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2014/05/12 04:01:22
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
The trailer for the show is up in case you missed it. It looks pretty cool, sorta like how you wanted Supernatural to be before they started doing all that fan service BS.
Jacob Kastrenakes wrote:'Constantine' trailer shows the horrors of demon hunting
DC's famous demon hunter is headed to television this fall in Constantine, and NBC has just released its first trailer. The show, based off of the comic series Hellblazer, follows John Constantine's crusade against a hidden evil rising up on Earth. From the trailer, the series looks to be creepy, terrifying, and even a little funny, with pretty impressive special effects for a television show. Matt Ryan of Criminal Minds stars as Constantine, and Lucy Griffiths of True Blood costars as his new demon-hunting partner; a couple of Lost alumni turn up in the trailer too. It'll be airing on Fridays — so you may be recording it for later — but from the looks of it, Constantine has the potential to be a big series nonetheless.
He seems to have given up smoking.
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2014/05/12 04:40:55
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
Ah the Welsh accent... I am not going to be able to take this seriously... honestly cannot stop laughing at the trailer.
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2014/05/12 05:08:30
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
So one of the least family friendly comic franchises gets put on regular television? If it was British television, I might at least give it a whirl (so long as Cumberdouche didn't have anything to do with it...) but a censored Constantine is a crime against humanity.
Breotan wrote: Well, being American, I have absolutely no idea what's up with that, purplefood.
It's the incongruity of it. The guy sounds like he could be living down my street and yet he's fighting daemons and gak. It's nearly on par with Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead or Paul...
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2014/05/12 06:42:20
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
So one of the least family friendly comic franchises gets put on regular television? If it was British television, I might at least give it a whirl (so long as Cumberdouche didn't have anything to do with it...) but a censored Constantine is a crime against humanity.
No thanks.
It's airing on the same network that has Hannibal. Have you seen Hannibal? Trust me, you've got nothing to worry about.
Speaking of Hannibal, you all should be watching it.
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2014/05/12 10:14:12
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
This does look really, really good. I'm cautiously optimistic about it. I greatly enjoyed the character in the comics, and the trailer looks kind of amazing.
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2014/05/12 11:01:02
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
Breotan wrote: Well, being American, I have absolutely no idea what's up with that, purplefood.
Me neither, there is nothing wrong with a Welsh protagonist, other than the fact that we dont see many depictions of one. The accent isn't exactly Welsh either, more like mixed West Midlands.
It's the incongruity of it. The guy sounds like he could be living down my street and yet he's fighting daemons and gak. It's nearly on par with Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead or Paul...
The character is at a juxtaposition between modern mundane reality and the supernatural, so it makes sense that he has average middle-working class roots.
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2014/05/12 12:22:17
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
he Unexplored Medium
ALAN MOORE speaks on what makes working as a comic writer so appealing.
The following excerpt comes from an article which appeared in the November 1993 issue
of Wizard magazine. The authors were William A. Christensen and Mark Seifert
Where did the character John Constantine come from?
Basically, when I take over something as a writer, I always try to work as closely as I can with the artists on the book, so I immediately did my best to strike up a friendship with Steve Bissette and John Totleben. I asked them what they would like to do in Swamp Thing . They both sent me reams of material. Things that they had always wanted to do in Swamp Thing, but never thought they would get away with. I incorporated this into my scheme of things, and tried to pin it all together.
One of those early notes was they both wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. I think DC is terrified that Sting will sue them, although Sting has seen the character and commented in Rolling Stone that he thought it was great. He was very flattered to have a comic character who looked like him, but DC gets nervous about these things. They started to eradicate all traces of references in the introduction of the early Swamp Thing books to John Constantine's resemblance to Sting . But I can state categorically that the character only existed because Steve and John wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. Having been given that challenge, how could I fit Sting into Swamp Thing ? I have an idea that most of the mystics in comics are generally older people, very austere, very proper, very middle class in a lot of ways. They are not at all functional on the street. It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.
One interesting anecdote that I should point out is that one day, I was in Westminster in London -- this was after we had introduced the character -- and I was sitting in a sandwich bar. All of a sudden, up the stairs came John Constantine. He was wearing the trenchcoat, a short cut -- he looked -- no, he didn't even look exactly like Sting. He looked exactly like John Constantine. He looked at me, stared me straight in the eyes, smiled, nodded almost conspiratorially, and then just walked off around the corner to the other part of the snack bar. I sat there and thought, should I go around that corner and see if he is really there, or should I just eat my sandwich and leave? I opted for the latter; I thought it was the safest. I'm not making any claims to anything. I'm just saying that it happened. Strange little story.
The following excerpt comes from an article/interview
with Sting appeared in the August 1991
issue of Musician magazine. The author was Bill Flanagan.
Wherever Gordon Sumner ends, there's no question that the public image of Sting has taken on a life of its own. . . . Last night Sting was talking about the DC superhero comics of the early '60s when he was reminded that these days DC has a supernatural hero, Hellblazer, modeled after Sting. As a kid Sting read about Superman and Batman. Now he's in the comics hanging out with them.
"That's not me," Sting says. "That's the public domain creation. Anything can happen to that, bad or good. It doesn't affect the core of me. Having created a kind of mask or image, you should then put it aside and get on with your life. The mistake [celebrities] make is they, confuse that thing that's been created by them and by the media for reality. Then they sit inside that thing and they wonder why everything's fethed up. That character is someone else. It's not me. And thank God. Nice things happen to it, bad things happen to it - fine. Just leave me out of it!
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2014/05/12 12:25:11
Subject: Re:Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
What is this? There4's like a one paragraph thing ion Wiki mostly about fans being annoyed the comic is cancelled.
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2014/05/12 12:27:32
Subject: Re:Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
So one of the least family friendly comic franchises gets put on regular television? If it was British television, I might at least give it a whirl (so long as Cumberdouche didn't have anything to do with it...) but a censored Constantine is a crime against humanity.
No thanks.
Is it still that family unfriendly? He's part of mainstream DC now rather than Vertigo.
Being that I don't read New 52verse comics, I'm not sure if he's been toned down in them, though.
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2014/05/12 12:32:48
Subject: Re:Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
That guy doesn't look like Sting. He looks like a recovering heroin addict.
Voice is too much for me.
Really don't understand the popularity of these low budget "supernatural" type shows. They always look like gak and have the same cliche paranormal crap in them every damn time.
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His accent seems to hop from one poor imitation of a regional "british" accent to another, has nobody else noticed that? One minute he sounds like he is going for a cockney accent, the next it's scottish and the next it's irish. In fact the only accent he doesn't seem to be doing is the accent of the bloody actor.
2014/05/12 13:52:39
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
I think it looks good.
He certainly makes for a far better Constantine than Keanu Reeves did.
I may have to wait for a series DVD/iTunes download though.
I doubt it'll make it out to Saudi.
Mind you, in saying that, we do get GoT and Hannibal, so you never know...
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2014/05/12 15:28:04
Subject: Re:Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
It's airing on the same network that has Hannibal. Have you seen Hannibal? Trust me, you've got nothing to worry about.
Speaking of Hannibal, you all should be watching it.
have an exalt for telling everyone they should be watching Hannibal, such a great show.
As to this, I am very curious how they are going to make this work in an episodic fashion. But, it does also seem that most DC comics work better on TV than they do on the big screen, aside from batman.
2014/05/12 15:31:53
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
Corpsesarefun wrote: His accent seems to hop from one poor imitation of a regional "british" accent to another, has nobody else noticed that? One minute he sounds like he is going for a cockney accent, the next it's scottish and the next it's irish. In fact the only accent he doesn't seem to be doing is the accent of the bloody actor.
I believe that is the Russell Crow school of method acting - become the part so strongly that the origin of it ceases to be and only you in your awesomeness exists!
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2014/05/12 17:03:07
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
Corpsesarefun wrote: His accent seems to hop from one poor imitation of a regional "british" accent to another, has nobody else noticed that? One minute he sounds like he is going for a cockney accent, the next it's scottish and the next it's irish. In fact the only accent he doesn't seem to be doing is the accent of the bloody actor.
I believe that is the Russell Crow school of method acting - become the part so strongly that the origin of it ceases to be and only you in your awesomeness exists!
In fairness the guy is from Swansea...
Makes sense his logic doesn't quite function properly.
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2014/05/12 17:34:17
Subject: Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
Corpsesarefun wrote: His accent seems to hop from one poor imitation of a regional "british" accent to another, has nobody else noticed that? One minute he sounds like he is going for a cockney accent, the next it's scottish and the next it's irish. In fact the only accent he doesn't seem to be doing is the accent of the bloody actor.
I believe that is the Russell Crow school of method acting - become the part so strongly that the origin of it ceases to be and only you in your awesomeness exists!
I agree with everything except the title- in my mind, that will always be the Bruce Campbell school of acting. Where you come to chew scenery and kick butt- and you're all out of scenery.
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2014/05/12 17:44:38
Subject: Re:Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
I find myself watching a bit more BBC No idea why....but I do.
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2014/05/12 18:45:33
Subject: Re:Constantine - Now with less Kineau Reeves and more British accent.
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