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With the writer's strike going on nothing's currently happening with the project right now, but writer Akiva Goldsman did offer a brief update confirming that the project is still in development and "Francis [Lawrence], Keanu [Reeves], and I have broken ‘Constantine 2.’ I just haven’t started typing yet." (7/10/23)

Apparently there has been a recent rumor going around that this project has been cancelled. That has been proven false by EW, who reported the following: "A spokesperson for Warner Bros. confirmed to EW that Constantine 2 is not scrapped." (2/7/23)

Director Francis Lawrence had a recent interview where he revealed that a script is still yet to be written, but many ideas are floating around, saying: "We have germs of ideas and dedication. And Keanu and I have been batting around for a while and we’ve always wanted to do it. It’s just that we finally gotten past the hurdle of now we can go ahead and, and really do it. Now we have to just roll up our sleeves and dive in. But we have lots of ideas." Adding that the first film was shot as PG-13, but received an R-rating anyway, so this time he'll be aiming for that R rating: "One of the biggest things for me about the first one was we followed, per Warner Bros., the rules to make a PG-13 movie in terms of violence, blood, language, sexuality. But the ratings board gave us a hard R based on their the gray zone of intensity. And my big, big regret was that we have an R-rated movie that’s really a PG-13 movie. And if I was going to have to go have an R, I would have really made an R-rated movie. I would have made it much scarier and much more violent and I would have really made an R-rated movie." (11/15/22)

Keanu Reeves returns to play John Constantine, which comes as no real surprise since the actor has expressed interest in reprising his role for some time now.

Director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire/Mockingjay Part 1 and 2) returns to helm this sequel.

Scripted by Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, I Robot, Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code, I Am Legend).

A new Constantine series was being developed by HBO Max last year, which was going to follow "a younger version of the character and focus more on the horror elements of the comics rather than the religious ones." That project has since been scrapped in favor of this sequel.

An NBC series was created in 2014 that starred Matt Ryan as Constantine. The series only ran for one season, but we'd see him return as the character in an animated movie as well as live-action in DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

A potential sequel has been talked about for over a decade

This is a sequel to 2005's Constantine, which was based on DC Comics' Hellblazer comic book.