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Producer says they’re trying to make it happen
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (“The Transformers”) tells IGN Movies that he’d love to get a sequel to the Keanu Reeves-starring “Constantine” up – but unfortunately he’s not the only one who gets to make that decision.
“I wish I knew the answer to that,” he says. “That would really be a Warner Bros. executive question. I know all the filmmakers want to try to make number two. We love the character. We’re hoping that we can find a way to make even, I’ll say, a darker, harder version of it. We’re not at that place yet where we really have the ability to get that done, but I know Keanu wants to play that and all of us think that there is a natural, new and darker adventure with Constantine.”
Be prepared for more changes to the original comic if it happens.
“I never have a problem with naysayers at all,” says di Bonaventura. “I think that everybody is entitled to feel it. But the place where it gets hard for us as filmmakers is where it cuts off an avenue of decision-making before we’ve gotten there. So that’s the place where I try to be very protective of the writers and the directors and the artists that I’m working with, because I don’t know where they’re going to end up. And until I know that, I’m going to defend them to a tee.”
Speaking of all-things-Keanu, the actor has apparently passed on a role in the film adaptation of “Watchmen”. See here for more details.
