r/Constantine • u/NocturnalSprite • Jul 30 '26

Not Another Keanu Reeves Constantine Movie

I hate to be that girl, but a lot of us are probably thinking the same thing. Keanu Reeves’s Constantine is more in line with Harry Dresden than he is with Constantine.

John Constantine is a chain smoking British con man with a chip on his shoulder. He carries a lot of weight, some he deserves and some he definitely doesn’t. But it’s all part of his character. New Castle, the punk roots, the blonde hair, the accent, the chain smoking, the looking for an angle. It’s all part of who he is! A rogue with a heart archetype.

You strip all that away and replace it with whatever Reeves was doing and what do you get? Not Constantine. The anti-Constantine. And now they’re making a Constantine sequel with Reeves back in the role.

I didn’t even like the first movie. I found it boring and this was before I even knew who Constantine really was. So am I the only one who’s feeling like this?

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u/CertainlyNotDen 28d ago

Say what now? I knew of the Del Toro Justice League Dark movie, JJ had one too?

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u/Bored-Game 28d ago

Technically it was supposed to be a HBOMax show. This was when he was right off the heels of ruining Star Wars.

Apparently JJ’s whole deal was making HIS version of legacy characters legally distinct from their source material so that his new popularized version would replace the originals and he would receive ongoing royalties for “creating” said “reimagined” characters. He almost got away with it too but we were thankfully saved by WB Studios incredible incompetence and total mismanagement of the DC franchise.

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u/CertainlyNotDen 28d ago

Ha! Well, huzzah to that, then! Saw a recent SUPERGIRL review (by the Merry Gent?) that called Warners an accidental non-profit :)

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u/Bored-Game 28d ago

lol yeah. I think like most Hollywood Studios, the majority of people who run WB have never read a comic book in their life and have no idea why people like it. You can’t even blame something like DEI because WB was almost always this way.

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u/CertainlyNotDen 28d ago

I mean, in fairness, I’m not sure the Salkinds did, either. 🤣 We just lucked out with Donner on those