The CW has announced plans for another Arrowverse spinoff – this time from “Black Lightning” as Jordan Calloway will reprise his role of Khalil Payne in the new series “Painkiller” which will follow his character.
The pilot for the potential series will air as a backdoor pilot and be the seventh episode in the upcoming fourth season of “Black Lightning” which returns in February. Calloway started with that series in the first season and was promoted to regular a year later.
In the upcoming episode, Khalil is riddled with the guilt of his troubled past from his former life in Freeland City, where as super-enhanced killing machine Painkiller he was a member of Tobias Whale’s gang and a weapon of Agent Odell and the shadowy ASA.
After attempting to bury Painkiller, Khalil moves to Akashic valley to find peace as his history clashes with a new beginning and he is forced back into action to bring justice.
Salim Akil will pen the script, executive produce and direct the pilot. Greg Berlanti also produces.
Source: The Live Feed
