{"id":1070,"date":"2014-07-16T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2014-07-16T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:28:05","slug":"nbcs-version-of-constantine-wont-be-bisexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1070","title":{"rendered":"NBC&#8217;s Version of Constantine Won&#8217;t Be Bisexual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speculation has come to an end on whether the NBC adaptation of long-running DC Comics series <em>Hellblazer<\/em> will retain the main character&#8217;s bisexuality \u2013 and the answer is no. Executive producers David S. Goyer were willing to fight to show evidence of John Constantine&#8217;s smoking habit onscreen, it seems, but found his sexuality to be of lesser importance. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/insidetv.ew.com\/2014\/07\/13\/constantine-bisexual-smoking\/\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked about this at the Television Critics Association\u2019s semi-annual press tour Sunday, executive producer Daniel Cerone ran down the various editions of the character that have existed since the demon fighter was introduced in 1985 to suggest his sexuality is not a crucial aspect of the character (nearly all of the character\u2019s relationships in the comics have been with women). \u201cIn those comic books, John Constantine aged in real time,\u201d he said. \u201cWithin this tome of three decades [of comics] there might have been one or two issues where he\u2019s seen getting out of bed with a man. So [maybe] 20 years from now? But there are no immediate plans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for Constantine&#8217;s cigarette habit, however, Cerone and Goyer noted that the network had suggested every replacement from patches to chewing gum \u2013 but according to Goyer, &#8220;We thought [showing him] having to snub something out is more truthful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After all, to what part of a character&#8217;s identity should one be more truthful than his smoking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley R. Lierman Speculation has come to an end on whether the NBC adaptation of long-running DC Comics series Hellblazer will retain the main character&#8217;s bisexuality \u2013 and the answer is no. Executive producers David S. Goyer were willing to fight to show evidence of John Constantine&#8217;s smoking habit onscreen, it seems, but found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}