Keanu Reeves has confirmed there’s a story prepared for the ‘Constantine’ sequel.
The 60-year-old actor starred within the unique 2005 film because the titular supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine and whereas a follow-up has been caught in limbo for a while, he is revealed he and director Francis Lawrence are transferring nearer to creating the movie occur.
He instructed Inverse: “We’ve [along with director Francis Lawrence] been making an attempt to make this movie for over a decade, and we only recently put a narrative collectively and pitched it to DC Studios and so they mentioned, ‘OK.’ So, we’re going to attempt to write a script.”
Whereas the ‘John Wick’ star declined to share any particulars, he confirmed the sequel could be set within the “similar world” as the primary movie.
He added: “We’re not going off that. John Constantine’s going to be tortured much more.”
His feedback got here simply weeks after Francis revealed making ‘Constantine 2’ was “nearer than ever”.
He instructed Collider: “I’ll say we’re nearer than ever to with the ability to do a sequel, which is a superb factor.
“And [producer Akiva Goldsman], Keanu and I are tremendous, tremendous enthusiastic about it.
“Now we have an ideal concept. Now we have gone via a bunch of the comics over time and checked out issues.
“I’ll say that there is most likely grains from issues that we’re pulling, however in fact, most of it’s simply coming from the three of us, you recognize, loving the character, loving the world, having it kind of behind our minds for 20 years and simply sort of percolating on concepts, and tales and characters we love, and concepts we love.”
Late final 12 months, the director revealed they have been “now actively engaged on a script”.
He instructed the identical outlet in a separate interview: “So it’s actually not that it’s similar to, ‘Oh yeah, now we predict the world is prepared for it.’ I actually suppose there’s a greater fan base and definitely it’s turn out to be a sort of cult traditional, which has been actually thrilling to see and really unusual, but it surely’s one thing we’ve at all times beloved.
“We’re now in a spot the place we’re actively engaged on a script.”
Lawrence added the concept of a sequel had been floated for years, and it was solely in 2020 that the ball began actually rolling on the venture.
He mentioned: “The reality is, someplace across the fifteenth anniversary or one thing, we did a Zoom and all of us have been discussing making an attempt to get it up and going once more. And once more, we have been simply extra lively with it and eventually received it previous all these hurdle.”
The follow-up flick – which was introduced by Warner Bros. In 2022 – will share its R-rating with its predecessor, and Lawrence harassed the second ‘Constantine’ could be extra mature than the unique image.
He added: “We had been serious about it. We had additionally been given an R-rating after we sort of made a PG-13 film and adopted all of the PG-13 guidelines.
“So we’re like, ‘F*** it, let’s go and do a sequel and actually make an R-rated film. Give us an R, allow us to make an actual R-rated film.’ “