Just don’t make it. Spend the time and money making something original and good instead of another rushed out product to satisfy some CEO’s productivity ambitions.
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Keanu said he wanted to do another Constantine before anyone was working on it
It's going to be interesting to see what DC projects exist in the coming years. Rushing out a project was exactly the strategy DC had been using previously. They were behind Marvel and were constantly playing catch up. Marvel built up and put out The Avengers. So DC had to make Justice League as fast as they could.
I think Gunn/Safran as head of DC Studios are willing to wait. I hope the people above them are willing to wait as well.
I think they are waiting and time is partially on their side because the longer it takes, the more time we get to forget about the previous DC movies. I'm also a big fan of Gunn and wish him the best!
What's so odd is that I don't think anyone needed a Justice League movie that fast. I think a few of us for BvS were like, "what is Doomsday even doing here...?" as well as, killing Superman ... it's like, it's too soon dude .. they haven't earned these emotional moments yet. Seemed like it was mainly because execs were pushing crap and wanted more money.
I mean if the script isn't ready, don't make the film.
Constantine came out in 2005, if the sequel comes out in 2026 or 2030, who cares?
My only concern would be holding back the Constantine character from other stories. One of the bummers of the MCU is/was that certain characters were stuck "owned" by other companies. Spider-Man can't show up because Sony owns the rights. The X-Men aren't around because Fox is trying to make Dark Phoenix again.
I'd love to see Keanu as Constantine show up in the DCU proper. Give him a soft reboot and just fall into a scene while solving his own problems, or be the answer to "I know a guy" out of nowhere. Then he can have his own "Constantine: Blah blah blah" film that is a "sequel", but in the more wacky DCU vs the more grounded Constantine original film.
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.
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.
I mean if he thought matrix resurrection script was ok, maybe take his opinion with a grain of salt.
Idk I sort of feel like resurrection was a big middle finger to whoever twisted Lana Wachowski' arm to make it.
I've not watched it again, but I remember thinking that it was funny.
This is how I remember it too, like it was intentionally over-the-top and campy.
Within 5 minutes of that film I had a grin, what did they attempted was a Gremlins 2 like mockery. For that it earned my respect.
If he made the matrix sequels and John Wick sequels, this must really be dog shit.
He was happy with that “accent” so I don’t rate his opinion on the matter.
I know the feeling. I wasn't happy with the script for the first one.