Francis Lawrence says Constantine 2 is "closer than ever"

It’s been 20 years because the launch of Constantine, however director Francis Lawrence says Constantine 2 is “closer than ever.”

It’s been practically three years since we first discovered that Warner Bros. was growing a long-belated sequel to Constantine. So much has modified in that point, corresponding to James Gunn and Peter Safran taking on DC Studios, however the mission continues to be kicking. In truth, director Francis Lawrence instructed Collider that Constantine 2 is “closer than ever” to really occurring.

“I will say we are closer than ever to being able to do a sequel, which is a great thing,” Lawrence mentioned. “And Akiva, Keanu and I are super, super excited about it.” Lawrence will direct the sequel from a script by Akiva Goldsman, and, after all, Keanu Reeves returns because the cynical exorcist and demonologist.

The unique Constantine film was launched in 2005 and grossed a good $230.9 million on a $70-100 million finances. The film discovered Constantine serving to an LAPD detective (Rachel Weisz) show that her sister’s loss of life wasn’t a suicide however was, in truth, one thing way more sinister. As for the sequel, Lawrence didn’t drop any main teases, solely to say, “We have a fantastic concept.“

He continued, “We have gone by way of a bunch of the comics through the years and checked out issues. I’ll say that there’s most likely grains from issues that we’re pulling, however in fact, most of it’s simply coming from the three of us, you realize, loving the character, loving the world, having it form of at the back of our minds for 20 years and simply type of percolating on concepts, and tales and characters we love, and concepts we love.“

Lawrence has beforehand teased that he wish to develop Constantine 2 with an R-rating in thoughts. “One of the biggest things for me about the first one was we followed, per Warner Bros., the rules to make a PG-13 movie in terms of violence, blood, language, sexuality,” Lawrence mentioned. “But the rankings board gave us a tough R based mostly on their the grey zone of depth. And my huge, huge remorse was that now we have an R-rated film that’s actually a PG-13 film. And if I used to be going to need to go have an R, I might have actually made an R-rated film. I might have made it a lot scarier and way more violent and I might have actually made an R-rated film. The concept is that this time, a minimum of for me, is to essentially go at it and make an actual R-rated Constantine which is, I feel, what folks all the time needed initially, not the PG-13 model that simply occurs to get an R.“

In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, Constantine shall be released on 4K Ultra HD on February 18th.