Bill Skarsgård Wanted to Play John Constantine With ‘It’ Director Andy Muschietti
After two It movies as Pennywise, Bill Skarsgård had an idea for what he and director Andy Muschietti could do […]
After two It movies as Pennywise, Bill Skarsgård had an idea for what he and director Andy Muschietti could do together next. He wanted to play John Constantine, the chain-smoking occult detective from DC’s Hellblazer comics.
“I thought Constantine was cool. I had an idea that Andy Muschietti and I could do Constantine,” Skarsgård told the Happy Sad Confused. What appealed to him was the chance to bring the kind of visual horror he and Muschietti had explored in It to a superhero movie.
The timing makes that a fun piece of casting to think about. As we reported earlier this week, Evil Dead Wrath filmmaker Francis Galluppi is developing a new Constantine movie for DC.
Keanu Reeves played the role in 2005. Skarsgård was recalling his own idea with Muschietti, but now that we know he’d like a shot at the role, how would you feel about him putting on the trench coat?
