For years and years, 2005 fans Constantine and DC Comics were hoping to see Keanu Reeves in the role of the big screen again. Surprise! Eventually it happens. Warner Bros is officially developing another one Constantine film in which Reeves will again team up with the director of the first film with JJ Abrams among the producers of this one.
Francis Lawrence, who made his film debut with Constantine 17 years ago, and has done much of the since then hunger games affiliated with Some water for the elephants Yes red sparrow is intended to direct the untitled return of Keanu Reeves’ John Constantine, as Term relationships. The next film will be written by Akiva Goldsman, who co-developed the titans series as well as many star Trek Projects
Goldsman will also produce the film through its Weed Road Pictures banner featuring Abrams’ Bad Robot with Hannah Minghella also aboard the project. 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 would strike a deal with the filmmakers and Reeves.
John Constantine has been in the pages of DC Comics since the character’s debut in 1985. Directed by Keanu Reeves Constantineproduced shortly before the rise of superhero movies, received mixed reviews and grossed $ 230 million worldwide at the box office, making it the 15th highest-grossing film of 2005, according to Mojo at the box office .
With Reeves in the lead, the film also starred Rachel Weisz as Angela Dodson, Shia LaBeouf as Chas, Djimon Hounsou as Midnite, and Tilda Swinton as Gabriel. With such an incredible line-up, most of which are even more famous than they were in 2005, can you imagine Warner Bros knocking on some of their doors?
Constantine seemed to open the door to more films starring Keanu Reeves as a supernatural exorcist and demonologist after his thrilling showdown against the Archangel Gabriel and Lucifer, but it’s only now that a sequel is finally in development. The news comes a few years after it was announced that a HBOMax series for Dark Justice League was under construction also by JJ Abrams and Bad Robot, memorably including John Constantine on a team of supernatural heroes.
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Source: Cinemablend
