In Hellblazer comics lore, “Chas” Chandler is John Constantine’s right-hand man and one of his closest friends. On the NBC TV series Constantine, which sees a new episode tonight at 10PM ET, he’s also the muscle, and played by the very strong Charles Halford.
So far, we haven’t seen a lot of Chas… but are there plans to see more of him in the future? We asked Constantine Executive Producers David S. Goyer and Daniel Cerone on a recent press call, where Cerone talked about how – as possibly the only living and most constant companion of Constantine’s – he was a character they wanted to have on the show on a regular basis. And, yes, there are more plans for him.
“Chas is definitely the strong, silent type, very laconic kind of character we wanted to roll out slowly,” Cerone said. “I know there’s been a couple of issues [of Hellblazer] where they dig in his back story, but there’s not a lot there. We’ve really enjoyed opening [Chas] up. We will open him up deeper in Episode 10,” he promised.
“In the pilot episode, you see that Chas comes back to life. For some reason, people started translating that to the idea that he’s immortal. We promise you he is not immortal. There’s a very good reason that he’s coming back to life, and the only spoiler I will give is that, you know, those lives are not infinite. And we do have an episode that involves flashbacks where we basically tell that story and we get to know more about Chas, we can meet Renee [his ex-wife] and his daughter, and we kind of dig into that story and figure out what makes Chas tick,” Cerone said.
“When the first 13 episodes are down, people will be surprised at how much kind of background we filled in on various characters – with John, and Manny, and Zed’s back story. It’s not just taste of the week,” Goyer added.
Stay tuned to KSiteTV for more on Constantine and don’t miss a new episode TONIGHT on NBC! Here are some photos from tonight’s show:
