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Keanu Reevesis heading back into a fan favorite role.
PEOPLE can confirm that a sequel to the cult favorite 2005 filmConstantineis in the works.
Fans will get to see Reeves, 58, reprise his role as exorcist/demonologist John Constantine after 17 years since the original first hit theaters. The supernatural thriller will re-team Reeves with original director Francis Lawrence.
The original film, which is based on DC’sHellblazercomics, follows Constantine through his cursed existence fighting evil demons. The movie grossed over $200 million worldwide upon its release.
Akiva Goldsman will write the screenplay and produce the project through his Weed Road Pictures, alongside Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella, according toDeadline, who was first to report the news.
Reeves has never shied away from how much he has hoped to one day step back into the role of the trenchcoat-wearing hero.
In a conversation with Stephen Colbert last year, he said Constantine was at the top of his list of characters he’d love to return to. “I would love to be John Constantine again,“he said. “I’ve tried.”
During a 15th-anniversary panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Goldsman said they had tried for years to make aConstantinesequel, but the studio said the box office earnings didn’t warrant it.
“We wanted to make … a hard-R sequel,” he said at the time. “I think we’d probably make it tomorrow. Yes, we tried a lot of different ways to find … it was always to the studios who made it, which were Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. It was always a little bit of a feathered fish.”
Reeves, whose acting career has spanned four decades, has recently appeared inDC League of Super-Petsas the voice of Batman,The MatrixResurrectionsas Neo andBill & Ted Face the Musicas Ted.
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Reeves is also currently executive producingJohn Wick: Chapter 4— in which he also plays the lead role — and recently produced the movieAlready Goneand the short filmSalacia.
Reeves will portray the brilliant young Burnham.
source: people.com
