Constantine Movie Sequel With Keanu Reeves Is Still Alive

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A sequel to Constantine, the movie based on DC Comics’ occult detective starring Keanu Reeves, is very much alive - at least according to director Francis Lawrence.

Lawrence said that he now has the rights to the character, and has been hashing out ideas for a script, with Reeves very much onboard.

"So Constantine 2 got obviously held up by the writers’ strike," Lawrence told GameSpot. "And we had to jump through a bunch of hurdles to get control of the character again, because other people had control of the Vertigo stuff. We have control.

“Keanu and Akiva Goldsman and I have been in meetings and have been hashing out what we think the story is going to be, and there's more meetings of those that have to happen - the script has to be written - but really hoping that we get to do Constantine 2, and make a real rated R version of it."

The first movie was released in 2005 and loosely based on DC Comics’ Hellblazer books featuring British antihero John Constantine. Hellblazer was one of the publisher’s more mature horror stories, focusing on the occult and its interactions with modern society.

If a sequel really does come together, it will be full-circle for Lawrence, who directed Constantine as his first major movie. Lawrence has since directed I Am Legend, Red Sparrow, and four Hunger Games movies, including the forthcoming The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.