Keanu Reeves Officially Set To Star in a CONSTANTINE Sequel!
Hell yeah! Keanu Reeves is officially set to star in a Constantine sequel for Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment! This is the best news of the week! On top of that Francis Lawrence, who directed the original, will return to helm the sequel!
J.J. Abrams is set to produce the film and Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend, Star Trek: Strange New Words) is set to write the script.
Deadline reports: “Reeves will reprise as supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine who in the original is dying but stays around to save his soul by keeping demons from hell from breaching earth. He also gets between a battle between the archangel Gabriel and Lucifer.”
Well, this movie news just makes me happy as hell! I was not expecting this and I can’t wait to see how this sequel will continue the journey of John Constantine all these years later.
Lawrence previously talked about a Constantine sequel saying:
"I think we all wanted to do it. It was successful enough. We wanted to make a responsible, more R-rated movie. By responsible, I mean we’d make a movie that wouldn’t cost quite as much as the original, which we thought was going to be PG-13. We worked on the sequel for a while. We have been talking about it recently. It’s always stuck with all of us because we all love the movie, and especially realizing there’s a real cult following for this movie, it’d be fun to make."
"Keanu and I have actually talked about it. Unfortunately, I don’t even remember who has it, but with all these shared universes that exist now, with Constantine being a part of Vertigo, which is a part of DC, people have plans for these shared universes. You know, possibly different Constantines and things like that. Right now, we don’t have that character available to us for TV or movies, which is a bummer."
"We all investigated it. but I think it’s kind of crazy when you have Keanu, who would love to do another Constantine, and us wanting to do another Constantine, and people are like, 'Uh, no, we got other plans.' We’ll see what happens."
The original movie was released in 2005, which was seventeen years ago! It’s crazy that it took the studio so long to get their shit together and make this happen!