Keanu Reeves' Constantine Sequel Not Canceled At Warner Bros.

Despite rumors claiming Keanu Reeves’Constantine 2was cancelled, the demon-fighting detective sequel is still hell blazing ahead as Reeves continues to push forward alongside original director Frances Lawrence.Amidst the ongoing shakeup at Warner Bros., specifically theirDCfilm side, projects have been canceled and remixed, and some have just gotten lost in the shuffle. But fans of the world-weary occult detective created by comicdom’s grand old grump, Alan Moore, don’t have to worry about the long-awaitedsequel to Reeves’Constantine.Related:Is Keanu Reeves' Constantine An Underrated Superhero Horror Gem?And amidst all the restructuring at Warner Bros. Discovery and James Gunn’s new DC slate, it was easy to think that maybe Reeves' continued attempt to get a long-gestating Constantine sequel was dead and buried. Often-reliable scooperKC Walshfueled rumours ofConstantine 2being cancelled by declaring as much on Twitter. However, a Warner Bros. spokesperson toldEntertainment WeeklythatConstantine 2was not scrapped.

When James Gunn and Peter Safran announced their planned new DC slate, titled “Gods and Monsters” and featuring both big-name heroes—including new runs forBatman,Superman, andSupergirl—and side ones likeThe Authority,Creature Commandos, andSwamp Thing, there was no mention of the previously approvedConstantine 2. Most fans thought, with what happened to the Michael Keaton-returns vehicle,Batgirl,Constantine 2may have been dumped in the trash pile of rejected projects not slated to go ahead. SinceConstantine 2is still going ahead, where it fits in the continued DC universe will be the real question. Some people thinkConstantine 2will slot alongsidetheSwamp Thingorigin movieas part of DC comics' darker areas, especially since Moore wrote Swamp Thing’s most famous run.

Reeves, star of multiple franchises to date, includingtheBill and Tedtrilogy, aMatrixquartet, and the ongoingJohn Wickactioners, would be adding another feather to his franchise cap whenConstantine 2hits theaters and his battered, broken man continues trying to save his soul from eternal damnation by fighting the darkness here on earth. Frances Lawrence, whose biggest project afterConstantinewas theHunger Gamesseries with Jennifer Lawrence (no relation), is set to return alongside his original star for another go-round at the demons and demigods that populate the DC universe. WhenConstantine 2drops, itmight finally give John the redemption he craves.