{"id":11222,"date":"2014-02-26T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2014-02-26T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:22:00","slug":"papa-midnite-is-the-big-bad-of-nbcs-constantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=11222","title":{"rendered":"Papa Midnite is the big bad of NBC&#8217;s Constantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/constan-VS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11223\" alt=\"constan-VS\" src=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/constan-VS.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A new report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2014\/02\/25\/papa-midnite-is-constantines-tv-big-bad-show-is-set-in-new-york\/\">Bleeding Cool <\/a>has revealed that the character Papa Midnite will be the reoccurring antagonist of the show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For those who dont know, in the comics Papa Midnite is\u00a0an immortal mob boss, businessman, and over all voodoo practitioner operating out of\u00a0New York City. Previously featured in the 2005 Constantine film and played by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Djimon_Hounsou\">Djimon Hounsou<\/a>, in the film he acted more along the lines of an ally to Constantine rather than foe.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on casting for Papa Midnite, but along with the news came some interesting tid-bits on the pilot itself.\u00a0The pilot episode is set in New York, with some scenes taking place in the Ravenscar Psychiatric Hospital, which is also now set in New York (instead of the UK like in the Hellblazer comics).<\/p>\n<p>While fans may not like the idea of the show taking place in New York, at least we got ourselves an actual man from the <a href=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/2014\/02\/matt-ryan-to-star-in-nbcs-upcoming-constantine-tv-series\/\">UK playing the title role<\/a>.\u00a0Neil Marshall\u00a0(Game of Thrones, Black Sails) is set to direct the pilot episode from a script by\u00a0Daniel Cerone\u00a0and\u00a0David Goyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nA new report from Bleeding Cool has revealed that the character Papa Midnite will be the reoccurring antagonist of the&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=11222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Papa Midnite is the big bad of NBC&#8217;s Constantine&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-11222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-featured","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Papa Midnite is the big bad of NBC&#039;s Constantine - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=11222\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Papa Midnite is the big bad of NBC&#039;s Constantine - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new report from Bleeding Cool has revealed that the character Papa Midnite will be the reoccurring antagonist of the&hellip; 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