Not-So-Teen 'Titans' Being Developed at TNT for Live-Action Show

We might see a live-action version of "Titans" on TNT (Image by Glee-chan)

TNT is entering the comic book adaptation business as it weighs producing a TV pilot based on the DC Comics team of young superheroes called the Teen Titans. The proposed show Titans will take a more dramatic approach than its animated Cartoon Network Teen Titans Go! version that's geared to young kids. At its center the focus will be on Dick Grayson, Batman's former sidekick, who takes on a new moniker - Nightwing.

Created in 1964, the Teen Titans were originally the junior varsity team to the more adult Justice League. Consisting of mostly sidekicks and young heroes they've become a fan favorite over the last generation for the different animated iterations on TV. The more dramatic live-action version will follow the twenty-somethings, Nightwing, Raven and Starfire and others as they form a super-team. It's unknown if characters like Cyborg and Arsenal (Roy Harper) will be part of the show considering Cyborg is attached to appear on the big screen as part of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Arsenal already appears on CW's Arrow. 

The good news is that the Oscar-winning writer of A Beautiful Mind and writer for Fringe, Akiva Goldsman, is writing and producing the pilot. The bad news is he's also responsible for two of the worst Batman films in the history of the world, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.

If all goes well and the show gets picked up by TNT it'll join a television landscape already dotted with DC Comics-based shows like Arrow, The Flash, Constantine, and Gotham. 

Source: WSJ