It’s official: HBO Max cancels Constantine and Madame Xanadu series produced by JJ Abrams

Although for Constantine fans The next sequel to the 2005 film starring Keanu Reeves should be good news, not all seems right, as HBO Max has just made it official that the series slated for production of JJ Abrams for this character and Madame Xanadu, they will no longer be part of the company’s plans.

And it is from the merger between Warner Bros and Discovery that everything has become increasingly gray, after the cancellation of several projects such as ‘Batgirl’ and perhaps ‘Supergirl’ and Superman by Michael B. Jordan, which has generated many doubts for DC fans about the future of new productions.

What will be the future of the Constantine and Madame Xanadu series?

According to Variety, HBO Max canceled plans for a new Constantine series under the production of JJ Abrams, which would have a story conceived by Guy Bolton. Said series had been announced in 2021 and Sope Dirisu was rumored to be the main candidate to star in said project.

But now Variety announced that the project is dead and it was only possible to have initial conversations with an actor, but it was not specified whether or not that person was Dirisu. While on the production side, only the scripts for the first four episodes had been written.

added to that hbo max Nor will it continue with the Madame Xanadu series project, also under the production of JJ Abrams, and a screenplay by Angela Robinson, which will focus on this powerful ancestral sorceress who lived with King Arthur.

Both series were inspired by DC comic characters, which were in development by Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television and according to the source Deadline They will be proposed to other streaming networks to continue their production.

It should be remembered that both the Constantine series and the Madame Xanadu series were part of a larger project led by Abrams, which also included a Zatanna series, and the whole would be linked to a future Justice Dark League series or film.

So, as happened with “Batman: The Caped Crusader”, the Madame Xanadu and Constantine series will continue to advance hand in hand with another streaming company, but there is nothing definite about it for now.