Titans Information

Titans is an upcoming American television series that will air on an unnamed DC Comics digital service, based on the DC Comics team of the same name. Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, and Greg Berlanti created the series, which sees Brenton Thwaites star as Dick Grayson, the leader of the Titans, alongside Anna Diop and Teagan Croft as Starfire and Raven, respectively.

A live-action series based on the Teen Titans entered development in September 2014 for the cable channel TNT, with Goldsman and Marc Haimes writing the pilot. The pilot had been ordered by December 2014, but never came to fruition, with TNT announcing in January 2016 it would no longer be moving forward with the project. In April 2017, it was announced that the series was being redeveloped for DC Comics' new direct-to-consumer digital service, with Goldsman, Johns, and Berlanti attached. Brenton Thwaites was cast as Dick Grayson in September 2017.

Titans is scheduled to debut in 2018.

Premise

Titans is centered on a group of young superheroes known as the Titans, led by Dick Grayson.

Cast and characters

Main

• Brenton Thwaites as Dick Grayson: A former circus performer who, after his parents' death, was trained by Batman to fight crime, and later becomes the leader of the Titans in his quest to step out from Batman's shadow.
• Anna Diop as Koriand'r / Starfire: An alien princess with the ability to shoot energy bolts and fly, who seeks asylum on Earth and comes into contact with the Titans.
• Teagan Croft as Raven: An empath who is the daughter of a demon, and whose powers are driven by her emotions.

Recurring

• Alan Ritchson as Hank Hall / Hawk: An aggressive, offensive bruiser who fights crime with his partner and girlfriend Dove.
• Minka Kelly as Dawn Granger / Dove: A strategic, defensive and lithe vigilante who fights crime with her partner and boyfriend Hawk.
• Lindsey Gort as Amy Rohrbach: A police detective who is the new partner of Dick Grayson.

The character Beast Boy is also expected to appear.

Episodes

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Production

Development

A potential live-action Titans project for cable channel TNT was announced in September 2014. By December 2014, a pilot written by Akiva Goldsman and Marc Haimes had been ordered that would feature Dick Grayson emerging from Batman's shadow to become Nightwing, the leader of a band of heroes including Starfire, Raven, Oracle, and Hawk and Dove. The pilot was set with filming to occur in Toronto in the mid-2015. In May 2015, TNT president Kevin Reilly said that they hoped to have the casting locked down by the start of filming and that the show would be "very true" to the comics and "groundbreaking". The series, called Titans and then Blackbirds, was first set to begin shooting in Toronto in mid-2015. Production was then postponed to October. In January 2016, it was announced that TNT would no longer be moving forward with the project. In February 2016, Geoff Johns stated "We [at DC] have known about [TNT nixing Titans] for months and months and months. That's not new news to us. We have plans for Titans. It's a huge piece of DC and we have plans."

In April 2017, Warner Bros. announced that Titans would debut in 2018 on DC Comics' own direct-to-consumer digital service. The series is being developed by Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter, with Goldsman, Johns and Berlanti writing the pilot episode. All are also executive producers of the series for Weed Road Pictures and Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros Television.

Casting

In early August 2017, Teagan Croft was cast as Raven, followed at the end of the month with the casting of Anna Diop as Starfire, and Brenton Thwaites as Dick Grayson.

In early September 2017, Alan Ritchson and Minka Kelly were cast in the recurring roles of Hank Hall / Hawk and Dawn Granger / Dove, respectively. By the end of the month, Lindsey Gort had been cast as Amy Rohrbach.