The recognition of Keanu Reeves’ 2005 comic book-inspired film “Constantine” had its filmmakers brainstorming ideas for a sequel — and a kind of ideas enthusiastic the occult detective meeting Jesus himself.
Reeves became joined by “Constantine” producer Akiva Goldsman and director Francis Lawrence for a internet based reunion in a [email protected] panel Saturday to commemorate the film’s 15th anniversary. There, they discussed, among many things, the suggestions that were tossed spherical to bring revive the saga of the demonologist, who has the capability to converse with half-angels and half-demons.
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“Oh, my God. [It] forever came up,” Goldsman acknowledged of talk of sequels. “Boy, we desired to originate…a laborious-R sequel. I judge we’d presumably originate it day after lately. Yes, we tried a ramification of diverse ways to search out…it became repeatedly [up] to the studios who made it, which had been Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. It became repeatedly a little of little bit of a feathered fish.”
And idea to be one of different ideas that came up became from co-creator Frank Cappello and enthusiastic John Constantine coming face-to-face with Jesus Christ.
“[John] wakes up in a cell. He has to title the prisoner… and it became Jesus,” Goldsman acknowledged.
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So, what came about? Why be pleased we yet to undercover agent a “Constantine” sequel? Lawrence acknowledged that it’s since the film wasn’t a “knock-out success” at the sphere station of work, announcing, “We positively talked about sequels more than [Warner Bros.].”
The 2005 film co-starred Rachel Weisz as a police officer who enlists John to abet exhibit that her twin sister became now not a suicide. And a post-credit scene with Shia LaBeouf leaves the door originate for future tales “should quiet we ever be pleased gotten to manufacture them,” Goldsman acknowledged.
That door stays originate, and Reeves, Goldsman and Lawrence are all game for walking by strategy of it.
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Reeves plays “Constantine’s” titular exorcist hooked on saving Earth from hell — even if his soul is already damned to be interred there — in the 2005 comic book adaptation which additionally starred Shia LaBeouf as a sidekick cab driver.
