Regardless of seeming to have a particular imaginative and prescient and a cohesive driving pressure for the primary time in its lengthy historical past, the way forward for DC films remains to be in a little bit of a multitude. Whereas James Gunn is sort of able to ship his first live-action DCU film with Superman, many beforehand introduced films should not as sure as they as soon as had been, and the franchise’s “Elseworlds” side-projects are in a state of flux. Amongst these initiatives is the long-delayed sequel to Keanu Reeves’ 2005 film, Constantine – and a brand new replace from the unique film’s Peter Stormare has instructed there’s nonetheless a hellish journey forward of it.
It’s now 20 years since Reeves first performed the troubled demonologist, and whereas there have been a number of makes an attempt to kick-start a sequel, these potential initiatives have all been dragged into improvement hell by no means to be seen once more. The character of John Constantine, nonetheless, has appeared in a number of different methods, together with in The CW’s Arrowverse, and a short-lived TV collection. However for a lot of, seeing Keanu Reeves reprising the function is the one factor that may make them blissful, and sadly, it seems to be like it’s the man himself who has been holding that up – however for the correct causes. Stormare instructed The Direct:
“It is a variety of forwards and backwards, as a result of… I believe Keanu [Reeves], which I do know fairly good, shouldn’t be so pleased with the scripts and often what comes out of the studios… As a result of the primary one wasn’t that profitable at first, it turned a sleeper and have become a cult film, and now it is without doubt one of the greatest cult films ever. However to do a sequel, the studios wish to have, , automobiles flying within the air. They wish to have individuals doing flip-flops and combating motion scenes.
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“And I believe Keanu says, ‘I’ve executed ‘John Wick.’ This film is religious. It is about demons and common individuals. And I wished to maintain it that approach.’ And we talked about that. I wish to do God coming down precisely the identical approach, however in a black go well with and looking out kind of like Lucifer from the primary one. I am 12 years older, so it will be laborious to, , fully imitate the primary film. However, I believe from Keanu, he desires to do a sequel that may be very near the primary one.”
Stormare continued so as to add that though he has not seen any of the scripts himself, Reeves’ need to have the film as near the unique is one thing he additionally desires.
“It turns into an motion film, and never like going deeper and deeper into the characters. I believe he desires to do his character once more, Constantine, as grounded because it was within the first one. It took a very long time so that you can turn into a cult film, it actually labored, and it’ll work on the viewers once more. You do not have so as to add a variety of motion and shootouts. You’ve different films. Do not flip it into huge Marvel… [Don’t turn it] into us flying round in harnesses on a regular basis and capturing one another up. Do not deliver within the huge weapons. Let it’s.
“[The action scripts are] simply rumour from him, , and it is making an attempt to be very secretive. As we are saying, each me and him, simply do the primary film once more and add another components, and you’ve got a sequel. ‘The Godfather 2’ was a sequel that was constructed on primary. They’re comparable. You’ll be able to truly see primary and two collectively, they usually stick collectively. So, do not do a very completely different film, then it will not maintain collectively. And I believe that is the place we’re, yeah.”
Will ‘Constantine 2’ Truly Occur?
Discuss of a sequel to Constantine has been floating round for nearly 15 years. Unique director Francis Lawrence was at all times within the body to return to the franchise along with his stars, however over time Guillermo del Toro was going to deliver Constantine again to screens in a Justice League Darkish mission, and J.J. Abrams was set to ship a brand new TV collection primarily based on the character. When each of those initiatives had been dropped, consideration turned again to the potential of Reeves’ iteration of the character making a return to the massive display screen. The actor confirmed in 2022 that he had spoken to James Gunn and a sequel was in improvement. Since then, there have been few updates till February this yr, when Reeves mentioned that he and director Lawrence had submitted a script to DC Studios for consideration.
Maybe which means Reeves has lastly discovered a model of the script that he’s pleased with since Stormare final spoke to him. Regardless of the reality, it does appear that issues might lastly be transferring ahead, and which means, in opposition to all odds, Constantine 2 might lastly be nearer than ever.
Supply: The Direct
Constantine
- Launch Date
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February 18, 2005
- Runtime
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121 minutes
- Director
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Francis Lawrence