The cost-cutting continues apace...
pulling the plug on My Glory Was I Had Such Friends, which would have seen Abrams reunite with Alias star Jennifer Garner; and HBO ditch Batman: Caped Crusader, a planned follow-up to Batman: The Animated Series, which ran from 1992 to 1995, with Abrams and The Batman's Matt Reeves on the creative team.
Unlike in the original movie, which found Constantine in middle age and on the verge of death, Abrams' series was based on the character’s appearance in the Hellblazer comics, and had been due to be contemporary in setting as well as taking place in London., and Abrams will now shop the project to other studios and streaming services.
It doesn't make sense for Warner Bros. to have two Constantine projects in the works, and to try and launch both within a couple of years of each other.