Keanu Reeves has issued the most promising Constantine 2 update yet, confirming it’s now ready for a script.
John Constantine is an occult detective and exorcist who appears in DC Comics. Off the back of his success with The Matrix, Reeves played the character for the 2005 live action adaptation, which went on to become a cult hit. Over the 20 years since, fans have called for a sequel, with Reeves himself saying he’d love to make it happen.
But now it seems Constantine 2 has an actual shot of happening, after Reeves himself confirmed a recent pitch meeting at DC Studios.
“We’ve been trying to make this film for over a decade, and we just recently put a story together and pitched it to DC Studios and they said, ‘Okay,’” Reeves told Inverse. “So, we’re going to try and write a script.”
That’s promising enough, but it’s worth saying that there’s no guarantee this Constantine 2 script will end up green lit by DC Studios co-chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran. Constantine 2 is not a confirmed project in the rebooted DCU, nor has it been mentioned by either Gunn or Safran as a possibility. So this one still feels on the edge.
Still, Reeves did tease that if it does get made, Constantine 2 will be set in “the same world” as the original film. “We’re not going off that,” he promised, before joking: “John Constantine’s going to be tortured even more.”
Reeves’ comments follow those from producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who said in September that Constantine 2 had a script but he was too scared to read it.
Speaking to ComicBook, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura said the script for Constantine 2 was in his inbox, but he was too scared to read it because he’s desperate for it to be good.
“You know it’s in my inbox right now, funny enough,” he said. “I’m too scared to read it, though, I want it to be good so bad. I’ll probably read it in the next few days, when I get on an airplane.”
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