'Hopefully, They Like It, Too' — Keanu Reeves Has a New Draft of the Constantine 2 Script and He's Going to Take It to DC Studios

Keanu Reeves has issued an update connected Constantine 2, revealing plans to present a caller draught of the publication to DC Studios for — fans anticipation — approval.

John Constantine is an occult detective and exorcist who appears successful DC Comics. Off the backmost of his occurrence with The Matrix, Reeves played the quality for the 2005 unrecorded enactment adaptation, which went connected to go a cult hit. Over the 20 years since, fans person called for a sequel, with Reeves himself saying he’d emotion to marque it happen.

While promoting his caller movie, Good Fortune, the John Wick prima told Fandango that a caller draught of the Constantine 2 publication had travel successful and helium planned to instrumentality it to DC Studios, adding: “Hopefully they similar it, too.”

“Yeah, fingers crossed,” Reeves said. “You know, different draught of the publication came in. We're waiting. We're going to instrumentality it to the studio. Hopefully they similar it, too.”

That’s a abbreviated and saccharine tease for the on-again, off-again Constantine 2, but it sounds a batch much promising than the authorities of things suggested by Peter Stormare, who played Lucifer successful the archetypal and is acceptable to reprise his relation successful the sequel, backmost successful May.

"[There's] a batch of backmost and forth, because... I deliberation Keanu [Reeves] is not truthful blessed with the scripts," Stormare told The Direct. "Because the archetypal 1 wasn't that palmy successful the beginning, it became a sleeper and became a cult movie, and present it is 1 of the biggest cult movies ever... To bash a sequel, the studios privation to have, you know, cars flying successful the air. They privation to person radical doing flip-flops and warring enactment scenes."

Stormare added that Reeves wasn’t funny successful making the adjacent installment an action-heavy project. "And I deliberation Keanu says, 'I've done 'John Wick.' This movie is spiritual,” helium said. “It's astir demons and regular people. And I wanted to support it that way.' And we talked astir that. I privation to bash God coming down precisely the aforesaid way, but successful a achromatic suit and looking much oregon little similar Lucifer from the archetypal one. I'm 12 years older, truthful it's going to beryllium hard to, you know, wholly imitate the archetypal movie. But, I deliberation from Keanu, helium wants to bash a sequel that is precise adjacent to the archetypal one."

Has Constantine 2 edged person to reality? Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images.

In February, Reeves himself confirmed he'd had a transportation gathering astatine DC Studios. “We've been trying to marque this movie for implicit a decade, and we conscionable precocious enactment a communicative unneurotic and pitched it to DC Studios and they said, ‘Okay,’” Reeves told Inverse. “So, we're going to effort and constitute a script.”

It’s worthy saying that there’s nary warrant this caller Constantine 2 publication volition extremity up greenish lit by DC Studios co-chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran. Constantine 2 is not a confirmed task successful the rebooted DCU, nor has it been mentioned by either Gunn oregon Safran arsenic a possibility. So this 1 inactive feels connected the edge.

Still, Reeves did tease that if it does get made, Constantine 2 volition beryllium acceptable successful “the aforesaid world” arsenic the archetypal film. “We're not going disconnected that,” helium promised, earlier joking: “John Constantine's going to beryllium tortured adjacent more.”

Reeves’ comments travel those from shaper Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who said successful September 2024 that Constantine 2 had a publication but helium was excessively frightened to work it.

Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images.

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