DC Just Lined Up a New ‘Constantine.’ Now the Director of Keanu Reeves’ Movie Wants His Sequel
Just last week, with Clayface still in theaters, we reported that DC was developing a new Constantine movie with Evil […]
Just last week, with Clayface still in theaters, we reported that DC was developing a new Constantine movie with Evil Dead Wrath filmmaker Francis Galluppi. A week later, James Gunn and Peter Safran are out, and Francis Lawrence, who directed Keanu Reeves in the 2005 film, says their exit has given him “renewed hope” for Constantine 2.
Speaking with Collider while promoting The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Francis Lawrence explained why the change at DC has him feeling more optimistic about getting Keanu Reeves back in the trench coat.
“Not that I want anybody to lose their jobs, so this is not like a schadenfreude kind of thing, but I will say that we’ve been trying to make Constantine 2 for 20-something years,” Lawrence said. “And we have an idea, and we have a script, and we’ve been wanting to make it, and the people that were at DC were an impediment to us making it.”
Lawrence said Reeves, Akiva Goldsman and J.J. Abrams are all still on board. “So, it’s really going to be people at Paramount, Warner, whoever’s running DC now, getting everybody on board to say, like, ‘Hey, we can do a sequel of our version of Constantine,” he explained.
As for where that leaves the other Constantine movie, Lawrence seems perfectly happy to see both get made. “Personally, I don’t even care if somebody has a plan for some sort of shared universe, and they want to do another version of Constantine … If they just let us do the sequel to our version, they can coexist. So, I have renewed hope as of yesterday that there might be some possibility for forward movement there.”
John Constantine made his comics debut in 1985’s The Saga of the Swamp Thing #37. Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette and John Totleben introduced him as a British occult detective with a look inspired by . By 1988, he had his own horror comic, , which ran for 300 issues. played him on the big screen in 2005, and later took his own crack at the character on NBC’s before bringing him over to .
