Hell yeah! Keanu Reeves is formally set to star in a Constantine sequel for Warner Bros. and DC Leisure! That is the perfect information of the week! On high of that Francis Lawrence, who directed the unique, will return to helm the sequel!
J.J. Abrams is about to provide the movie and Akiva Goldsman (A Lovely Thoughts, I Am Legend, Star Trek: Unusual New Phrases) is about to write down the script.
Deadline stories: “Reeves will reprise as supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine who within the unique is dying however stays round to avoid wasting his soul by maintaining demons from hell from breaching earth. He additionally will get between a battle between the archangel Gabriel and Lucifer.”
Nicely, this film information simply makes me joyful as hell! I used to be not anticipating this and I can’t wait to see how this sequel will proceed the journey of John Constantine all these years later.
Lawrence beforehand talked a few Constantine sequel saying:
“I believe all of us needed to do it. It was profitable sufficient. We needed to make a accountable, extra R-rated film. By accountable, I imply we’d make a film that wouldn’t price fairly as a lot as the unique, which we thought was going to be PG-13. We labored on the sequel for some time. We’ve been speaking about it lately. It’s at all times caught with all of us as a result of all of us love the film, and particularly realizing there’s an actual cult following for this film, it’d be enjoyable to make.”
“Keanu and I’ve truly talked about it. Sadly, I don’t even bear in mind who has it, however with all these shared universes that exist now, with Constantine being part of Vertigo, which is part of DC, folks have plans for these shared universes. You understand, presumably completely different Constantines and issues like that. Proper now, we don’t have that character out there to us for TV or motion pictures, which is a bummer.”
“All of us investigated it. however I believe it’s form of loopy when you have got Keanu, who would like to do one other Constantine, and us desirous to do one other Constantine, and individuals are like, ‘Uh, no, we received different plans.’ We’ll see what occurs.”
The unique film was launched in 2005, which was seventeen years in the past! It’s loopy that it took the studio so lengthy to get their shit collectively and make this occur!