“Constantine” Loses Actress

Looks like Lucy Griffiths (True Blood) has parted ways with the NBC adaptation of the DC Comic tv show Constantine.  While not much is known, the official reason being given by The Hollywood Reporter is “the show’s creators opted to move in a different direction.”

Griffiths played Liv, the female lead and an offbeat woman who finds herself teamed with Constantine after she is marked for death by a powerful demon.   NBC will not recast the role but instead add the character of Zed, a familiar name from the Constantine books. That character, a foil for the show’s title character who becomes his right-hand woman, has not yet been cast. She will appear in an early episode of the series, with additional characters from Hellblazer and the occult DC universe to be introduced later. Zed will be the first to appear, reportedly.

This is a little strange, as the show hasn’t even premiered yet, but last week the pilot appeared to be leaked to several of the online torrent sites.  We’re not too proud to admit we watched it, and liked it.  The casting of Lucy harkened to the character Rachel Weisz played in the film adaptation, alongside Keanu Reeves’s Constantine.  It will be interesting to see what gets said about this development as time goes on.  Especially at the panel in two weeks at Comic Con.  The show premieres on October 24th.