For the small handful of individuals like myself who has seen the 2005 movie Constantine, the primary phrases out of my mouth are, do you know this can be a DC movie? The second can be that it’s a disgrace this film was so missed, as a result of a sequel would really be fireplace. Fortunately for us, director Francis Lawrence has actually thrilling information about this upcoming DC film.
Almost 20 years after the unique’s launch, a sequel to DC and Warner Bros. Footage’ lesser-known son Constantine is lastly coming to fruition. In an interview with ComicBook, director Francis Lawrence shared the journey it took to reignite this franchise. He was quoted saying:
The reality is, someplace across the fifteenth anniversary or one thing, we did a Zoom and all of us had been discussing making an attempt to get it up and going once more. And once more, we had been simply extra energetic with it and at last bought 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 similar to, ‘Oh yeah, now we predict the world is prepared for it.’ I actually suppose there’s a greater fan base and positively it’s turn out to be a form of cult basic, which has been actually thrilling to see and really unusual, but it surely’s one thing we’ve all the time liked. We’re now in a spot the place we’re actively engaged on a script.
Over time, Constantine has gained fairly the cult following, as a result of on the time, the film was met with combined reactions. It was a type of both you hate it otherwise you adore it films, and it actually doesn’t really feel like a DC film in any respect. Additionally, not many individuals know a lot concerning the historical past of the DC exorcist and sorcerer, so the primary hurdle would have been making a convincing argument that individuals really need to see it. Granted, that was considerably cleared since there was a quick Constantine present, and whereas didn’t final lengthy, Matt Ryan’s model of the character was later introduced into the Arrowverse. The second hurdle was that the Constantine 2 script was placed on pause due to the author’s strike, a hurdle now we have now fortunately lengthy cleared.
Within the interview, Lawrence shared that he, Keanu Reeves and producer Akiva Goldsman had been hoping to make use of this film to discover extra of the world, in addition to lean extra into the R ranking of the movie. That is already a fairly loopy assertion, as a result of in the event you’ve seen the film all I’ve to say is Beeman. I nonetheless get the heebie-jeebies from that. Lawrence himself said:
We had additionally been given an R ranking once we form of made a PG-13 film and adopted all of the PG-13 guidelines. So, we’re like, ‘F–ok it, let’s go and do a sequel and actually make an R-rated film. Give us an R, allow us to make an actual R-rated film.
Reeves was requested if he can be prepared to go blonde for the sequel, since his casting was a degree of rivalry on the time, and he tip-toed round a set reply. As of proper now, the Constantine 2 script remains to be being labored on with no set launch date or manufacturing begin, so. At present you may hire or buy the primary film on digital platforms. For those who haven’t seen it, I might extremely advocate watching.