[Ben Lahnger]

According to this blog at Newsarama, the CW is interested in developing DC's DEADMAN for television.

The CW has found its Smallville follow-up. Creator of Supernatural, Eric Kripke, will be writing and producing a Deadman television series for them, currently in the developmental stage.

The series will be a drama says Deadline. Based on the character created by Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino in Strange Adventures #205, Deadman, aka Boston Brand is a former trapeze artist murdered during a performance and fated to continue on as a ghost. Deadman, who is starting in the upcoming arc of the new DC Universe Presents series starting in September, is given the “gift” to inhabit any living beings’ body thanks to the Hindu goddess Rama Kushna in order to help them solve crimes in their own lives.

“We’re looking next year to do a superhero show if the right superhero comes to be,” CW president Mark Pedowitz said at TCA last month, noting the advantage of having Time Warner-owned DC Comics in the family.

This is good news, I think. I've always been intrigued by the story of Boston Brand and his tortured existence as ghost/superhero, although he has gone through some changes over the years. If it was done well, it could be interesting. I'm concerned that it's a CW project ... does that mean he'll have to be a 22 year old hunk who loses his shirt on a regular basis? Because that would be awful.