Constantine 2 Director Explains the 20 Yr Await Keanu Reeves’ Return

Almost 20 years after Keanu Reeves’ iconic Constantine, the DC anti-hero is lastly going to be again on the large display screen. Constantine 2’s director, Francis Lawrence, opened as much as Comedian Ebook to inform followers why it took so lengthy for a sequel – regardless that he’d been desirous to do it because the first film hit theaters in 2005.

Lawrence mentioned about 5 years in the past, the thought of a sequel began to be taken a bit extra severely. “The reality is, someplace across the fifteenth anniversary or one thing, we did a Zoom, and all of us have been discussing attempting to get it up and going once more,” Lawrence mentioned of the sequel.

“And once more, we have been simply extra lively with it and at last obtained it previous all these hurdles. And so we at the moment are actively engaged on a script. So, it’s actually not that it’s identical to, ‘Oh, yeah, now we expect the world is prepared for it.’ I actually suppose there’s a greater fan base and definitely it’s turn into a sort of cult basic, which has been actually thrilling to see and really unusual, however it’s one thing we’ve all the time beloved. We’re now in a spot the place we’re actively engaged on a script,” Lawrence mentioned.

The Director At all times Wished to Do a Sequel

Lawrence added that his staff, which incorporates Reeves and producer Akiva Goldsman (Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds), is absolutely leaning into the liberty of constructing an R-rated film. “I’d say greater than any of my different motion pictures, Constantine has been one thing that I felt like was actually worthy of a sequel,” mentioned Lawrence, who was additionally behind motion pictures like I Am Legend (2007) and The Starvation Video games franchise.

“There’s a world which you can actually discover and there’s a personality that we actually beloved and actually needed to discover,” Lawrence mentioned. “When the film first got here out, it didn’t really feel like, ‘Oh, wow, the world is embracing our model of Constantine.’ There was lots of criticism that we didn’t have a blonde English model of him, and that Keanu was fallacious for it, and all these youngsters of issues. And I believe that kind of opinion has actually swung round and adjusted, however we all the time actually beloved the world and we all the time needed to do a sequel,” Lawrence mentioned.

A Actual R-Rated Film

As for the R-rating the primary Constantine obtained, Lawrence had this to say: “And so we had been fascinated with it. We had additionally been given an R-rating once we sort of made a PG-13 film and adopted all of the PG-13 guidelines. We’re like ‘F**okay it, let’s go and do a sequel and actually make it an R-rated film. Give us an R, allow us to make an actual R-rated film,” he mentioned.

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Constantine Celebrates its twentieth Anniversary in February

The unique follows John Constantine (Reeves), a demon hunter who has been to hell and again, as he helps a police officer examine her twin’s suicide. Constantine then turns into entangled in a supernatural plot with demonic and angelic forces. Constantine is predicated on the DC/Vertigo Hellblazer comics. It additionally stars Rachel Weisz, Djimon Hounsou, Tilda Swinton, Shia LaBeuf, Peter Stormare, and Gavin Rossdale.

Constantine 2 is in lively improvement, however no launch or manufacturing begin date has been introduced. The unique Constantine is being launched on 4K Blu-Ray on Feb. 18, 2025, the twentieth anniversary of the movie’s theatrical launch.

Supply: Comedian Ebook

Supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine helps a policewoman show her sister’s dying was not a suicide, however one thing extra.

Launch Date

February 18, 2005

Forged

Keanu Reeves , Rachel Weisz , Shia LaBeouf , Djimon Hounsou , Max Baker , Pruitt Taylor Vince

Writers

Jamie Delano , Garth Ennis , Kevin Brodbin , Frank A. Cappello

Runtime

121 Minutes

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