Once A Smoker: NBC’s Constantine Trailer Released

We talked a bunch about the upcoming Constantine TV show during this week’s podcast, but at the time we didn’t have a lot of information about the show, like what day it would be on and when it might debut.

Well, since we taped the show, site contributor Trebuchet brought to our attention that NBC has released a trailer for the show that answers a couple of questions about the show. Such as the fact that it looks like it will be debuting in the fall, and it will be airing on Fridays with Grimm (probably taking the place of Dracula).

Further, it seems that John’s first botched misadventure in Newcastle where he damned Astra’s soul to hell and got himself committed to Ravenscar will be part of continuity. However, it also seems that a big chunk of the show will be spent dealing with Americans, which were always the weakest issues of the comic book.

I have one or two other observations, but I’ll reserve them until you watch the trailer, which you can find right after the jump.

So there was something missing there, wasn’t there? Yup: John’s Goddamned cigarette. Now, with that said, there is the fact that this is a trailer for general consumption that was released in the anti-tobacco 21st Century, so maybe there was a conscious decision to downplay the smoking for the trailer. And there was one positive sign in that John had a Zippo lighter to throw onto a magical sigil, and one normally only carries a lighter to either light cigarettes or to start a campfire at the base of Everest.

But let’s not make any mistake here, ladies and gentlemen: John Constantine smokes. At least give the poor sonofabitch an e-cigarette; it’s a poor substitute, but it’s kept me going for four years, so I’ll accept it in John’s hands.

Either way, after recently coming across the Keanu Reeves Constantine movie on late night TV, it is damn good to see a Constantine with remotely the right accent, and a reasonable sense of humor. For the first time, I am legitimately looking forward to at least seeing the pilot to see what they have in mind.