The new film expands on the themes the original brought, about maintaining the barrier between earth and the evil creatures that are on the other side. “Finally, he said it enough times that it stuck.” Reeves’ revival in the John Wick films surely helped the cause. “This is a credit to Keanu, who endlessly has said, ‘this is the character I want to return to,'” Goldsman told Deadline.
Goldsman is writing the script, and Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Erwin Stoff will executive produce the project. He also gets between a battle between the archangel Gabriel and Lucifer. Reeves will reprise as supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine, who in the original is dying but stays around to save his soul by keeping demons from hell from breaching earth. That was until De Luca and Abdy made it a priority last fall. The 2005 original grossed $280 million worldwide and started with a strong lead and a promising premise to be built upon, but it was a one-off. We’re doing it with JJ Abrams, and Francis and Keanu and I have been pretty deep in the story breaking stage.” Jordan, and the sequel to Constantine with Keanu Reeves that Francis Lawrence is going to direct. “We’re starting with two projects that are fun and very much Warners the sequel to I Am Legend, with Will and Michael B. It’s a homecoming and I get to work with Mike and Pam and Jesse, who I’ve known since he started at Warner Bros.”Īt a time when De Luca and Abdy are leaning in on IP that can play on a global scale theatrically, Goldsman’s immediate focus will be on two such projects that have been percolating at the studio. Goldsman reminds that “the lion’s share of my career was at Warners I spent close to 20 years or more. Keanu Reeves in 2005’s ‘ Constantine’ Everett
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