“We Have Control” – Deadline

Francis Lawrence is giving an replace on the event of Constantine 2 with Keanu Reeves and issues are seemingly shifting alongside.

The sequel to the 2005 superhero horror movie was stalled as a result of writers strike however with writers again at work, Lawrence has been in conferences with Reeves to proceed the saga.

“So Constantine 2 got obviously held up by the writers strike,” Lawrence instructed 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.”

Lawrence continued, “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.”

Constantine is loosely based mostly on the DC Comics/Vertigo Comics’ Hellblazer. Kevin Brodbin and Frank Cappello wrote the script based mostly on a narrative by Brodbin. Reeves provides life to John Constantine, a chain-smoking cynic with the flexibility to understand the true visage of half-angels and half-demons.

Also starring within the movie are Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Djimon Hounsou, Gavin Rossdale, Peter Stormare, Max Baker, Francis Guinan, José Zúñiga, Jesse Ramirez, April Grace and Tanoia Reed.