Francis Lawrence knows fans have been craving a follow-up to Constantine, and now that the film has been released in 4K UHD for its 20th anniversary, there’s finally a new sequel update from the filmmaker himself.
We’ve heard from writers and producers of Constantine, but now the man who brought us Keanu Reeves as John Constantine to life is giving us something to chew on as director Lawrence spoke with Collider and noted the sequel is “closer than ever:”
“I will say we are closer than ever to being able to do a sequel, which is a great thing. And Akiva, Keanu, and I are super, super excited about it. We have a great idea. We have gone through a bunch of the comics over the years and looked at things,” says Lawrence.
“I will say that there’s probably grains from things that we’re pulling, but in truth, most of it is just coming from the three of us, you know, loving the character, loving the world, having it sort of in the back of our minds for twenty years and just kind of percolating on ideas, and stories and characters we love, and ideas we love,” he adds.
The 2005 film Constantine, directed by Lawrence and based on the DC Comics Hellblazer series, stars Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, a demon hunter who can see demons and angels in their actual forms. It also stars Rachel Weisz as Angela Dodson, Shia LaBeouf as Chas Kramer, Tilda Swinton as Gabriel, Djimon Hounsou as Papa Midnite, and Peter Stormare as Lucifer Morningstar.
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