It was officially announced last year that Constantine 2 is finally happening with Keanu Reeves coming back to play DC’s John Constantine for an official sequel to the 2005 movie, but you may be wondering if those plans have changed now that James Gunn and Peter Safran are restructuring the DC Cinematic Universe. The good news? Yes, it’s still happening!
“A spokesperson for Warner Bros. confirmed to EW that Constantine 2 is not scrapped,” Entertainment Weekly just reported today, squashing rumors to the contrary.
No word yet on whether Constantine 2 will be part of the mainline DC Universe or if it will exist in the “Elseworlds” space, but for now it’s great to hear that it’s still in the works.
Francis Lawrence is returning to direct the brand new Constantine adventure.
“Reeves will reprise as 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. He also gets between a battle between the archangel Gabriel and Lucifer.”
Akiva Goldsman will write the screenplay and produce the project through his Weed Road Pictures, alongside Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella.
With 2005’s Constantine amassing a fan following over the years and Keanu Reeves’s career currently hotter than ever thanks to the John Wick movies, it makes sense that Warner Bros. is now interested in bringing the DC character back to the big screen. The 2005 movie made $230 million worldwide back in 2005, against a $100 million production budget.
Matt Ryan brought the character to the small screen in 2014 with NBC’s short-lived “Constantine.” He has continued to play him in various other live action & animated projects.
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