‘Black Lightning’ Spinoff ‘Painkiller’ to Get Backdoor Pilot During Upcoming Season
thewrap.comAlso Read: The CW Sets Premiere Dates for 'Superman & Lois' and Jared Padalecki's 'Walker, Texas Ranger' RebootHe returned as the villainous Painkiller in the show’s second season.Here is the logline for the project from The CW:Khalil Payne (Jordan Calloway) is a young man ridden with the guilt of his troubled past from his former life in Freeland City, where, as a super-enhanced killing machine known as Painkiller, he was both a member of Tobias Whale’s gang and a weapon of Agent Odell and the shadowy ASA.
After attempting to bury the darker, devastatingly lethal Painkiller part of his persona, Khalil has distanced himself away from everyone he knows and loves in a new city, Akashic Valley, in order to find peace…but peace never comes easy.
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