For years upon years, fans of 2005’s Constantine and the DC Comics have been hoping to see Keanu Reeves back in the big screen role. Surprise! It’s finally happening. Warner Bros is officially developing another Constantine movie where Reeves will reteam with the director of the first film along with J.J. Abrams being among the producers of it.
Francis Lawrence, who made his filmmaking debut with Constantine 17 years ago, and has since helmed much of the Hunger Games franchise along with Water For Elephants and Red Sparrow is set to direct the untitled return of Keanu Reeves’ John Constantine, as Deadline reports. The upcoming movie will be written by Akiva Goldsman, who co-developed the Titans series along with numerous Star Trek projects.
Goldsman will also produce the movie through his company Weed Road Pictures alongside Abrams’ Bad Robot with Hannah Minghella also on board the project. Back in 2020, Francis Lawrence expressed interest in returning to Constantine with the caveat that the “character was not available to us.” Now, things have clearly changed as Warner Bros Pictures Group Co-Chairs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have reportedly sheparded a deal with the filmmakers and Reeves.
John Constantine has been between the pages of DC Comics since the character’s debut in 1985. Keanu Reeves-led Constantine, which came just before the superhero movie boom, received mixed reviews and made $230 million worldwide at the box office, becoming the No. 15 top-grossing movie of 2005, per Box Office Mojo.
Along with Reeves starring, the movie also featured Rachel Weisz as Angela Dodson, Shia LaBeouf as Chas, Djimon Hounsou as Midnite and Tilda Swinton as Gabriel. With such an incredible lineup, most of which being even more famous than they were in 2005, we’d imagine Warner Bros is knocking on a few of their doors?
Constantine seemed to open the door for more movies starring Keanu Reeves as the supernatural exorcist and demonologist, following his exciting face-off against the archangel Gabriel and Lucifer, but only now a sequel is finally being developed. The news comes a couple years after it was announced that an HBOMax series for Justice League Dark was in the works also from J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot, which memorably includes John Constantine among a team of supernatural heroes.
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