{"id":68385,"date":"2023-10-30T08:07:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T08:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/?p=68385"},"modified":"2023-10-30T08:07:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T08:07:18","slug":"francis-lawrence-wants-r-rated-constantine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/entertainment\/francis-lawrence-wants-r-rated-constantine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Lawrence Wants R-Rated &#039;Constantine 2&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Francis Lawrence has his sights set on an R-rated version of the highly-anticipated <em>Constantine 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <em>Gamespot<\/em>, the director gave an update on the Keanu Reeves-starring sequel,\u00a0&#8221;So <em>Constantine 2<\/em> got obviously held up by the writers strike.&#8221; He continued, &#8220;And we had to jump through a bunch of hurdles to get control of the character again, because other people had control of the Vertigo stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence added, &#8220;We have control. Keanu and Akiva Goldsman and I have been in meetings and have been hashing out what we think the story is going to be, and there&#8217;s more meetings of those that have to happen \u2014 the script has to be written \u2014 but really hoping that we get to do <em>Constantine 2<\/em>, and make a real rated R version of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>News of a sequel to the 2005 film hit the internet in 2020 and has received a few updates since then. About a year ago, Lawrence revealed that a script was yet to be written and that he, Reeves and Goldsman have been trying to get a sequel off the ground for years. &#8220;It\u2019s been tricky because of the DC\/Vertigo world and who owns the character and who has control over the characters, trying to get the right people to go forward. We\u2019ve got that now and now we need the story. We\u2019d all love to do it,&#8221; he previously shared.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in entertainment,\u00a0<em>Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>debuted with an impressive $130 million USD at the global box office.<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/2023\/10\/francis-lawrence-wants-r-rated-constantine-2-keanu-reeves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Francis Lawrence has his sights set on an R-rated version of the highly-anticipated Constantine 2. In a recent interview with Gamespot, the director gave an update on the Keanu Reeves-starring sequel,\u00a0&#8221;So Constantine 2 got obviously held up by the writers strike.&#8221; He continued, &#8220;And we had to jump through a bunch of hurdles to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Francis Lawrence Wants R-Rated &#039;Constantine 2&#039; - rapidcelnews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/entertainment\/francis-lawrence-wants-r-rated-constantine-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Francis Lawrence Wants R-Rated &#039;Constantine 2&#039; - rapidcelnews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Filmmaker Francis Lawrence has his sights set on an R-rated version of the highly-anticipated Constantine 2. 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