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Keanu Reeves Is Not Happy With Constantine 2 Scripts, Says Co-Star (Exclusive) (thedirect.com)

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[–] southsamurai 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think trying to put this Constantine into a DCU setting would fail hard.

I love the first movie, and that's despite having been a fan of the comics that was also disappointed in the fact that we didn't get the "real" Constantine in it.

But if they tried to cram this version into the already sloppy universe they've got, it wouldn't just piss off the comic fans that want a legit movie version, it would piss off fans of the movie.

The two universes don't fit together for one thing; the overall "vibe" could maybe be cobbled together, but it would end up feeling cobbled.

Part of what made the movie so enjoyable was the way it just said "fuck it" and reinvented the character. By any usual metric, that should have made it a shitty movie overall, since you can't typically reinvent a character without also destroying the world the character is from. And that is almost always going to result in shitty world building that breaks the ability to tell a good story.

Somehow, the Keanustantine world didn't fall into that trap. They didn't bother doing any world building, they just told a story and let the actors carry the whole damn thing.

You try and shove that character into a universe where he has to now fit into a built world, they'd have to fuck up what made it work in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I agree if they try to put 2005 Constantine into the new DCU it wouldn't work. I do however think if you want to keep Keanu as Constantine, you can do that.

I mentioned a soft reboot as a reintroduction of the character. You have to introduce him as both the familiar character, but also have him do things and behave in a way that fits in the new universe.

Think of it like when Professor X shows up in Multiverse of Madness. That's a character we know. But also, he hangs out with these new people and they defeated Thanos. So he isn't really the character we know. He's Professor X, so we trust him. But he isn't our Professor X.

Of course this all assumes that you really want to keep Keanu as Constantine. I don't think that's a given. I think you're better off casting someone new and not linking him directly to the 2005 film.

I just don't think we'll ever get a sequel to the 2005 film. So if you want Keanu back, that's how I'd do it.