Constantine 2, the sequel to the 2005 Keanu Reeves, has received a promising update from the director.
Francis Lawrence helmed the first film almost 20 years ago, and since then he's helmed three of the four Hunger Games films. Now he's back with prequel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, and during promotion he's spoken about what's going on with his Reeves reunion.
"Constantine 2 got obviously held up by the writers strike," he told GameSpot. "And we had to jump through a bunch of hurdles to get control of the character again, because other people had control of the Vertigo [comic label] stuff.
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"We have control. Keanu and Akiva Goldsman and I have been in meetings and have been hashing out what we think the story is going to be, and there's more meetings of those that have to happen — the script has to be written — but really hoping that we get to do Constantine 2, and make a real rated R version of it."
Since the first film came out, Constantine has found success on the small screen. Matt Ryan's version appeared in his own show and in the Arrowverse, and was a lot more of a faithful adaptation. He also reprised the role in a few animated projects, including one film that revealed he hooked up with King Shark, who is literally a humanoid shark.
We can't imagine that happening with the Keanu Reeves version, but it would certainly be fun.
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Reeves himself admitted earlier this year that he doesn't know if the sequel will happen, but he's hopeful.
One thing that won't get in the way is James Gunn's plans for the main DC movie universe, as he's happy for it to exist as an 'Elseworlds' separate continuity like Joker 2 and The Batman.
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