Titans together...on the big screen!
The Hollywood Reporter has word that DC Studios is developing a live-action film based on DC Comics superteam the Teen Titans, with Ana Nogueira tasked with writing the screenplay.
Nogueira, 38, is an actress and playwright best known as Penny Ares on The Vampire Diaries TV series, and has appeared on episodes of The Blacklist, The Michael J. Fox Show, and Hightown. Currently, she's also working on the script for another DC film, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow starring Milly Alcock as Supergirl/Kara Zor-El.
Created in 1964 by Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani, the Teen Titans first appeared in The Brave and the Bold (vol.1) #54, where Robin (Dick Grayson), Kid Flash (Wally West) and Aqualad (Garth) teamed up to defeat a weather-controlling villain known as Mister Twister. They appeared under the name "Teen Titans" in The Brave and the Bold #60 and were joined by Wonder Woman's younger sister Wonder Girl (Donna Troy). After being featured in Showcase #59, the Teen Titans were spun off into their own series with Teen Titans (vol.1) #1 by Haney and artist Nick Cardy. Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy (Roy Harper) made guest appearances before officially joining the team in Teen Titans #19.
After running 43 issues, the series was cancelled in 1973, but was brought back in 1976 with additional team members, including African-American superheroes Guardian/Hornblower (Mal Duncan) and Bumblebee (Karen Beecher), along with former supervillain-turned-superhero Harlequin (Duela Dent). The revival was short-lived, however, and the series ended in 1978 with issue #53.
In 1980, writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez created a new incarnation of the team, the New Teen Titans, which debuted in DC Comics Presents #26 before getting their own series. Original members Robin, Wonder Girl and Kid Flash were joined by Beast Boy (Gar Logan), now called Changeling, and new superheroes Cyborg (Victor Stone), Raven (Rachel Roth) and Starfire (Koriand'r). Brought together by Raven to help defeat Raven's demonic father, Trigon, this version of the Teen Titans became the most popular incarnation of the team to date and a rival to Marvel's most popular superteam, the X-Men.
The New Teen Titans (vol.1) introduced other notable adversaries, including Deathstroke the Terminator, Brother Blood, and Blackfire, and featured classic stories such as "A Day in the Lives", "Runaways", and "Who Is Donna Troy?". In 1984, the series was relaunched as a second volume, while the original series became Tales of the Teen Titans. Before ending original stories with #58, Tales of the Teen Titans featured additional classic stories "The Judas Contract", which featured Robin adopting the new identity of Nightwing, and "We Are Gathered Here Today...", which told the story of Donna Troy's wedding.
After various incarnations of the Titans over the decades, the seven members of the New Teen Titans are once again the current version of the team in Titans (vol.4), now written by Tom Taylor and drawn by incoming artist Lucas Meyer. Following the events of the Dark Crisis event series and during Taylor's run on Nightwing (vol.4), Superman approached Nightwing with the proposition that he serve as the leader of the new superhero team, after the Justice League disbanded. This led to Nightwing unveiling a new Titans Tower in Bludhaven, with his friends from the New Teen Titans era, only now no longer teenagers.
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