‘Constantine 2’ Still Happening Despite New DC Universe

When James Gunn unveiled the brand new DC Universe final week, it contained ten new initiatives; 5 films and 5 exhibits. They included a brand new Superman film, a brand new Batman and Robin film, a Swamp Factor film, the Authority, and Supergirl films, plus TV exhibits for Booster Gold, Creature Commandos, Amanda Waller, Inexperienced Lantern, and the Amazons of Themyscira.

However that listing of initiatives did not embrace one of many extra eagerly awaited sequels within the DC multiverse, one which had been introduced just some months earlier, proper earlier than Gunn and Peter Safran had been employed as the brand new co-CEOs of DC Studios: Constantine 2, a sequel to the horror motion movie starring Keanu Reeves as DC’s magical anti-hero John Constantine. Given the truth that a number of DC initiatives had been shelved or canceled when Gunn and Safran got here on board, and given their plan to create an interconnected universe of flicks and exhibits, the truth that they by no means talked about Constantine 2 didn’t appear to bode properly for the undertaking, which Reeves has been attempting to get off the bottom for years, and would proceed the story from a movie made greater than 17 years in the past.

However Leisure Weekly now reviews {that a} “spokesperson for Warner Bros. confirmed” that the movie is “not scrapped.” Gunn did say in his bulletins final week that any films or exhibits which are deliberate that don’t match into his new DC universe — initiatives like The Batman – Half II or the upcoming Joker sequel — might be dubbed “Elseworlds” movies. So Constantine 2 might conceivably fall underneath that banner as properly.

The truth that this movie would possibly occur in any respect stays a really stunning flip of occasions, significantly since just some months in the past, Keanu was moping on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert over the truth that he couldn’t get the film to occur. In fact, simply because Warners claims it’s occurring now doesn’t imply we’re assured to see it. At this level we nonetheless don’t have something near a confirmed launch date for the undertaking.