Keanu Reeves Isn't 'Happy' With the Constantine 2 Scripts in Development, Co-Star Claims: 'Don't Turn It Into Big Marvel'

If you’re a Keanu Reeves fan, you’ll beryllium blessed to cognize a sequel to his deed movie Constantine has been successful the works for immoderate clip — but recently, 1 of Reeves’ co-stars from the archetypal movie revealed that the histrion isn’t excessively thrilled with the scripts that person travel astir during the improvement process.

"[There's] a batch of backmost and forth, because... I deliberation Keanu [Reeves] is not truthful blessed with the scripts," histrion Peter Stormare revealed successful a caller interrogation with The Direct. "Because the archetypal 1 wasn't that palmy successful the beginning, it became a sleeper and became a cult movie, and present it is 1 of the biggest cult movies ever... To bash a sequel, the studios privation to have, you know, cars flying successful the air. They privation to person radical doing flip-flops and warring enactment scenes."

Stormare, who appeared arsenic Lucifer successful the 2005 archetypal and is acceptable to reprise his relation successful the sequel, added that Reeves wasn’t funny successful making the adjacent installment an action-heavy project.

"And I deliberation Keanu says, 'I've done 'John Wick.' This movie is spiritual. It's astir demons and regular people. And I wanted to support it that way.' And we talked astir that. I privation to bash God coming down precisely the aforesaid way, but successful a achromatic suit and looking much oregon little similar Lucifer from the archetypal one. I'm 12 years older, truthful it's going to beryllium hard to, you know, wholly imitate the archetypal movie. But, I deliberation from Keanu, helium wants to bash a sequel that is precise adjacent to the archetypal one."

Plus, it seems arsenic though Reeves is acrophobic that Warner Bros. is looking to crook the accumulation into thing unnecessarily grand, akin to a Marvel project, which makes consciousness to a definite degree, considering Constantine is loosely based connected the DC and Vertigo comic bid Hellblazer and we cognize everyone wants a portion of a fashionable comic publication property. Plus, Reeves precocious had a gathering with DC Studios astir the project. But the movie yet wouldn’t payment from that benignant of grandiose treatment, and it seems Reeves is good alert of that.

"It took a agelong clip for [the original] to go a cult movie. It truly worked, and it volition enactment connected the assemblage again," Stormare said. "You don't person to adhd a batch of enactment and shootouts. You person different movies. Don't crook it into large Marvel... [Don't crook it] into america flying astir successful harnesses each the clip and shooting each different up. Don't bring successful the large guns. Let it be."

Director Francis Lawrence is acceptable to instrumentality for the sequel, but it remains to beryllium seen erstwhile precisely it’ll commencement shooting, fto unsocial beryllium released.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.