‘Constantine 2’ Still Happening Despite New DC Universe

When James Gunn unveiled the brand new DC Universe final week, it contained ten new tasks; 5 motion pictures and 5 reveals. They included a brand new Superman film, a brand new Batman and Robin film, a Swamp Thing film, the Authority, and Supergirl motion pictures, plus TV reveals for Booster Gold, Creature Commandos, Amanda Waller, Green Lantern, and the Amazons of Themyscira.

But that listing of tasks did not embody one of many extra eagerly awaited sequels within the DC multiverse, one which had been introduced just some months earlier, proper earlier than Gunn and Peter Safran had been employed as the brand new co-CEOs of DC Studios: Constantine 2, a sequel to the horror motion movie starring Keanu Reeves as DC’s magical anti-hero John Constantine. Given the truth that a number of DC tasks had been shelved or canceled when Gunn and Safran got here on board, and given their plan to create an interconnected universe of films and reveals, the truth that they by no means talked about Constantine 2 didn’t appear to bode nicely for the challenge, which Reeves has been attempting to get off the bottom for years, and would proceed the story from a movie made greater than 17 years in the past.

But Entertainment Weekly now studies {that a} “spokesperson for Warner Bros. confirmed” that the movie is “not scrapped.” Gunn did say in his bulletins final week that any motion pictures or reveals which can be deliberate that don’t match into his new DC universe — tasks like The Batman – Part II or the upcoming Joker sequel — shall be dubbed “Elseworlds” movies. So Constantine 2 might conceivably fall underneath that banner as nicely.

The proven fact that this movie would possibly occur in any respect stays a really stunning flip of occasions, significantly since just some months in the past, Keanu was moping on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert over the truth that he couldn’t get the film to occur. Of course, simply because Warners claims it’s taking place now doesn’t imply we’re assured to see it. At this level we nonetheless don’t have something near a confirmed launch date for the challenge.