Almost twenty years after the release of the first film Keanu Reeves is ready to wear the role of John Constantine again. The sequel, currently in the works, will once again see Francis Lawrence directing and will expand the themes of the first film, as stated by screenwriter Akiva Goldsman to the microphones of Deadlines in a recent interview.
New details on the long-awaited sequel to Constantine
The character will remain authentic and with the same vision that Keanu and Francis had of him as someone who lives in a world where good and evil coexist, but there is also room for that black line behind it all. The new film will keep the themes of the first chapter, especially with regard to the difference between the Earth and the creatures that are outside.
Akiva then publicly thanked Keanu for pushing, almost every day, Warner to give the green light to the making of a sequel. The first film got a PG-13 rating, but the director’s hope is to make a more mature and adult Rated R sequel. John Constantine is a fictional character created by Alan Moore, John Totleben and Stephen Bissette in 1985, and is the protagonist of the comic series Hellblazers, published in the United States of America by DC Comics under the Vertigo imprint. You made your debut in the second series of the horror comic Swamp Thing in a cycle written by Alan Moore.
Constantine grossed over $200 million in 2005 at the worldwide box office. Keanu Reeves will reprise his role as supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine, who is dying of lung cancer in the first film but remains in the human world to save his soul by preventing the demons of Hell from reaching the earthly dimension. . We see the character also meddle in a battle between the Archangel Gabriel and Lucifer.
