Keanu Reeves Set To Return For Just Announced 'Constantine' Sequel at Warner Bros.

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It’s official – a Constantine sequel is finally on the way! According to Deadline, Warner Bros. has resurrected the DC character with Keanu Reeves set to return, almost 20 years after the first movie. Click inside to read more… The outlet reports that Keanu and director Francis Lawrence, who helmed the first movie, will reunite, with Akiva Goldsman writing the screenplay. Akiva and Bad Robot’s J.J.

Abrams and Hannah Minghella will also produce the project. The 2005 movie grossed over $200m in 2005 box office dollars worldwide. Keanu will reprise his role as the supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine, who in the original is dying but stays around to save his soul by keeping demons from hell from breaching earth.

In past interviews, Keanu has expressed wanting to do a sequel to the movie. “I would love to be John Constantine again,” he told Stephen Colbert on his late night talk show in 2021.

Meanwhile, Akiva has also revealed that there have always been plans for a sequel, but it just never got off the ground until now. “Yes.