Keanu Reeves would be open to joining the Marvel universe.
17.09.2022 - 00:53 / justjared.com
It’s official – a Constantine sequel is finally on the way!
According to Deadline, Warner Bros. has resurrected the DC character with Keanu Reeves set to return, almost 20 years after the first movie.
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The outlet reports that Keanu and director Francis Lawrence, who helmed the first movie, will reunite, with Akiva Goldsman writing the screenplay.
Akiva and Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella will also produce the project.
The 2005 movie grossed over $200m in 2005 box office dollars worldwide.
Keanu will reprise his role as the 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.
In past interviews, Keanu has expressed wanting to do a sequel to the movie.
“I would love to be John Constantine again,” he told Stephen Colbert on his late night talk show in 2021.
Meanwhile, Akiva has also revealed that there have always been plans for a sequel, but it just never got off the ground until now.
“Yes. Oh my God, yes. [Sequels] endlessly came up,” Akiva shared. “Boy, we wanted to, we wanted to do a hard-R sequel. I think we’d probably make it tomorrow. We tried a lot of different ways…to the studios who make it, which was Village Roadshow and Warner Bros., it was always sort of a feathered fish.”
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Keanu Reeves would be open to joining the Marvel universe.
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Constantine has been confirmed, with Keanu Reeves and Francis Lawrence both set to return.The cult movie, directed by Lawrence, was released 17 years ago and follows John Constantine (Reeves) as he exorcises the possessed and travels between Earth and Hell seeking salvation from eternal damnation for a suicide attempt in his youth.As reported by Deadline, a follow-up has now been greenlit, with Akiva Goldsman set to write the screenplay and produce the film, with J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella also helping out on production.No further details regarding a release date, title for the sequel or any further casting have yet been revealed.While you wait, revisit the Constantine trailer below.Back in 2020, Reeves said that he “would love to” do a sequel to Constantine, according to director Lawrence.Speaking in an interview with /Film, the director said he has spoken to Reeves and producer Akiva Goldsman about doing a sequel.“We have been talking about it recently,” Lawrence said. “It’s always stuck with all of us because we all love the movie, and especially realising there’s a real cult following for this movie, it’d be fun to make.
The DC-related supernatural property “Constantine” has been in the air for the last two years. Whispers of a belated sequel with Keanu Reeves were bandied about at one point and then seemingly squashed in 2021 when Reeves was asked by reporters and said he “would love to” make a “Constantine” sequel, but the studios weren’t interested.
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Collider in 2020, would’ve had Constantine trying to identify a prisoner who turns out to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Reeves will next be seen in “John Wick: Chapter 4” and will star in the Hulu series “Devil in the White City.” He also recently voiced Batman in Warner Bros.’ “DC League of Super-Pets” and reprised his role as Neo in “The Matrix Resurrections.” Lawrence is currently filming the next “Hunger Games” movie “A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” which should arrive next year and is a prequel to the original “Hunger Games” franchise.
Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com The only soul Satan himself would come up to collect is getting a follow-up film. “Constantine” is back. Variety can confirm that Warner Bros. will make a sequel to the 2005 supernatural action film “Constantine” starring Keanu Reeves. The blockbuster star will reunite with original director Francis Lawrence, best known for taking over the “Hunger Games” franchise after the first film. “Constantine” has been a hot property in Hollywood, sparking a NBC series created by Daniel Cerone and David S. Goyer, and was even more recently being developed into a new series for HBO Max by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions. However, sources tell Variety that the HBO Max series is now dead, although the streamer had been in early talks with an actor for the lead role before the new movie came together. Bad Robot’s “Madame X” series will also not be moving forward at HBO Max. Insiders say these decisions were not due to creative reasons, and expect to find a new home for both projects.
EXCLUSIVE: Here is a resurrection of a DC character worth getting excited over. Warner Bros will develop another installment of the 2005 supernatural thriller Constantine, and the studio is re-teaming star Keanu Reeves and director Francis Lawrence, who made his helming debut on the original.
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upcoming John Wick: Chapter 4, but he’s also had a recent resurgence of roles that defined him early in his career. Among these are his role as Neo in The Matrix and his iconic role as Ted in the Bill and Ted films. Anytime I think about Ted or his merry compatriot Bill I think about them engaging in a round of air guitar, which is something Reeves also does in his personal life.