‘Constantine 2’ Story Being ‘Hashed Out’ With Keanu Reeves, but the ‘Script Has to Be Written’; Director Wants a ‘Real Rated R Version Of It’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Variety reported last fall that Keanu Reeves was in talks to return for a sequel to “Constantine,” the 2005 superhero horror movie based on the graphic novels from DC Comics and Vertigo Comics.
Now comes a small but noteworthy update from Francis Lawrence, the 2005 film’s director who is set to return alongside Reeves for the sequel.
It turns out a script for “Constantine 2” still does not exist (it got held up by the WGA strike, which is now over), but the two men and original producer Akiva Goldsman are hashing out the story. “So ‘Constantine 2’ got obviously held up by the writers strike,” Lawrence recently told GameStop. “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 stuff.
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.
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