The CW Is Developing BLACK LIGHTNING Spinoff Series PAINKILLER
The CW’s DC series Black Lightning is getting a spinoff titled Painkiller. The network is currently developing a backdoor pilot around the Painkiller character.
The spinoff will star Jordan Calloway, who is reprising his role as the character. Calloway plays Khalil Payne, “a man ridden with the guilt of his troubled past from his former life in Freeland City, where, as a super-enhanced killing machine known as Painkiller he was both a member of Tobias Whale’s gang and a weapon of Agent Odell and the shadowy ASA.
“After attempting to bury the darker, devastatingly lethal Painkiller part of his persona, Khalil has distanced himself away from everyone he knows and loves in a new city, Akashic Valley, in order to find peace, but peace never comes easy for men with pasts like his. As his violent, destructive history crashes his idyllic new beginning, Khalil is thrusted back into action with a new mission: bring justice where he once gave out punishment. But to do that, he will first have to deal with and harness his darker side.”
Black Lightning showrunner Salim Akil will write, executive produce, and direct the pilot episode. The planted pilot spinoff will air as the seventh episode of Black Lightning’s fourth season, and it will premiere in February 2021.
Black Lightning is a show that I haven’t really watched. I did watch the first couple of episodes, but it didn’t really grab my attention.
The spinoff is being produced by Berlanti Productions, Akil Productions and DC Entertainment in association with Warner Bros Television.
Source: Deadline