Constantine 2 might have a fresh chance of life, as Francis Lawrence suggests the outgoing DC Studios regime held the movie up. Crikey, that didn’t take long. Days after the departure of Peter Safran and James Gunn from their jobs heading up DC Studios, and already a filmmaker has admitted they’d got in the way ... Constantine 2 | Francis Lawrence says previous DC Studios people were “impediment”
Constantine 2 might have a fresh chance of life, as Francis Lawrence suggests the outgoing DC Studios regime held the movie up.
Crikey, that didn’t take long. Days after the departure of Peter Safran and James Gunn from their jobs heading up DC Studios, and already a filmmaker has admitted they’d got in the way of one of their projects.
That filmmaker is Francis Lawrence, who’s on the promotional tour for his latest film as director, The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping.
Lawrence has one DC-flavoured film to his name thus far, the Keanu Reeves-headlined Constantine from back in 2005. It’s no secret at all that he’s been trying to get a Constantine 2 movie up and running, but the assumption was that was now dead, with DC said to be pursuing a reboot.
Chatting to Collider, Lawrence was quizzed about his assumed-dead Constantine sequel, and he told that outlet that “Not that I want anybody to lose their jobs, so this is not like a schadenfreude kind of thing, but I will say that we’ve been trying to make Constantine 2 for 20-something years, and we have an idea, and we have a script, and we’ve been wanting to make it, and the people that were at DC were an impediment to us making it.”
Just in case we didn’t get the implication from that, Lawrence added that “we are now more hopeful as of yesterday’s news that maybe now there will be another opportunity.”
He’s confirmed that he intends to talk to the new leadership at the studio to try and get the project moving again, with Keanu Reeves still very much on board.
Hollywood, then, doesn’t stand still. One team goes, in comes another, and people are still trying to get their movies made. In the case of Constantine 2, there may yet be a teeny bit of life left in it. Its odds look better than a week ago.
