The latest DC property to head to TV might be its most obscure one so far from comics, yet it’s most famous from religion and literature.
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Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Fox has ordered a pilot for Lucifer, a character who has appeared most prominently in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. He’s exactly who he sounds like: a fallen angel and ruler of Hell, though in the pre-New 52 continuity he abandoned his throne and went on to live in Australia and then Los Angeles.
The EW piece sounds like the pilot will pick up a thread from the Vertigo series written by Mike Carey, with Lucifer opening up a piano bar called Lux in Los Angeles. The main theme of his solo book was the exploration of free will and the idea that Lucifer wasn’t evil as much as a being who simply followed his own desires regardless of the consequences, and it will be intriguing if the show can pick up on those subtleties.
He’s also a character who could easily have crossed over with Constantine, but since that show is on NBC, that’s obviously not going to happen. Expect Lucifer to exist in its own self-contained world if it gets ordered to series — one more to add to the DC TV/film Multiverse.