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The director of Constantine, Francis Lawrence, opened up about the movie’s long-awaited sequel now that DC Studios has had a changing of the guard.<\/p>\n
James Gunn and Peter Safran are out at DC Studios in a sudden and unexpected move that has sparked no end of worry and speculation among fans. Gunn, for his part, cited a distaste for the \u201ccorporate\u201d side of the job, but confirmed that projects already in motion, like Man of Tomorrow, are still a-go.<\/p>\n
Fans aren\u2019t the only ones scratching their heads about what might happen next. Francis Lawrence, the director of oodles of Hollywood blockbusters, is also in this boat \u2014 though he\u2019s rather optimistic about the situation, as it means he might finally get the chance to make another Constantine film.<\/p>\n
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Speaking with Collider<\/u> ahead of his next movie, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping<\/u>, Lawrence clarified that he isn\u2019t happy for anyone to lose their jobs, but admitted that he\u2019s keen on the possibility of getting Constantine 2 off the ground now that things are changing at DC.<\/p>\n
“Well, I\u2019ll tell you this,\u201d he began. \u201cNot that I want anybody to lose their jobs, so this is not like a schadenfreude kind of thing, but I will say that we\u2019ve been trying to make Constantine 2 for twenty-something years, and we have an idea, and we have a script, and we\u2019ve been wanting to make it, and the people that were at DC were an impediment to us making it. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we are now more hopeful as of yesterday\u2019s news that maybe now there will be another opportunity. But again, we\u2019ve been trying to make this for twenty-something years, and there\u2019s always been obstacles in the road to making it, and it\u2019s not me, it\u2019s not Keanu, it\u2019s not Akiva. J.J. [Abrams] is on it, as well. We all want to do it. So, it\u2019s really going to be people at Paramount, Warner, whoever\u2019s running DC now, getting everybody on board to say, like, ‘Hey, we can do a sequel of our version of Constantine?'”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nLawrence said, without a doubt, that this version of Constantine will be another R-Rated film, no matter what. He explained that the first movie had been made with a PG-13 rating in mind, but despite their best efforts, it was hit with an R label. If given the chance to make a sequel, Lawrence wants to lean all-in and make it a true R-rated experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, part of the idea from the very beginning was, because we followed all the rules to make a PG-13 movie and we got hit with an R, they told us, ‘You can\u2019t do anything about it. It\u2019s going to be an R no matter what.’ We tried to fight them on it, and they said, ‘Nope. It\u2019s an R,’ but really, it\u2019s an R-rated PG-13 movie, which pisses me off,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
“And so we all kind of came back and said, ‘Okay, when we do this next time, we\u2019re making the hard-R version of Constantine.’ So when we do it, it\u2019s going to be the hard-R version of Constantine.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nLawrence doubled down on his desire to make another Constantine at all costs, even saying that he doesn\u2019t mind if it gets put into a shared universe or remade to fit DC\u2019s ever-evolving plans at some point. He claimed that he and Keanu would even compromise on their financial compensation to get the film made, if that’s what it takes.<\/p>\n
“Personally, I don\u2019t even care if somebody has a plan for some sort of shared universe, and they want to do another version of Constantine. If they just let us do the sequel to our version, they can coexist. So, I have renewed hope as of yesterday that there might be some possibility for forward movement there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
“We have to be responsible,\u201d he continued, speaking about the financial side of the equation. \u201cWe want to make it. This is not the kind of movie that I would charge full freight and Keanu could charge full freight. It\u2019s something we have to do, because we love and want to take a gamble on it, and do it responsibly. And so, we\u2019ve been thinking about that same idea for 20 years, that we\u2019re not going to do it for $100 million. We have to be scrappy about it.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\nConstantine was released in 2005. Starring Keanu Reeves, the movie is based on the DC\/Vertigo comic book Hellblazer and follows supernatural detective John Constantine in his mission to purge the world of nefarious evil entities.<\/p>\n
This is the latest news about Constantine after Reeves reportedly pitched a sequel to DC Studios in 2025. And just earlier this month, it was revealed that Evil Dead Wrath writer-director Francis Galluppi was hired by DC Studios to write a John Constantine movie for them, though it\u2019s unclear if he\u2019ll also be directing.<\/p>\n
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