Keanu Reeves’ ‘Constantine 2’ Gets ‘Renewed Hope’ After James Gunn’s DC Exit, Says Director: ‘People at DC Were an Impediment to Us’

Nov 11, 2026 7:20pm PT Keanu Reeves’ ‘Constantine 2’ Gets ‘Renewed Hope’ After James Gunn’s DC Exit, Says Director: ‘People at DC Were an Impediment to Us’

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Following the news that James Gunn and Peter Safran are out as co-studio heads at DC, “Constantine” director Francis Lawrence is feeling a “renewed hope” about his long-awaited sequel to the “Hellblazer”-inspired 2005 action-horror.

“Not that I want anybody to lose their jobs, so this is not like a schadenfreude kind of thing, but I will say that we’ve been trying to make ‘Constantine 2’ for 20-something years, and we have an idea, and we have a script, and we’ve been wanting to make it, and the people that were at DC were an impediment to us making it,” Lawrence told Collider.

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