Merrick here...
THIS piece at MTV offers a chat with Francis Lawrence about whether or not a sequel or prequel to either CONSTANTINE or I AM LEGEND (both films he directed) will ever come about. The potential franchising of both titles has been rumored or indicated for several years now.
All of this per the interview embed below. But the short of it is...
Regarding the notion of a CONSTANTINE sequel, Lawrence says...
Over the years, CONSTANTINE seems like it has this kind of cult following...which has been great, it's been embraced, and it would be great to figure out a sequel. And if we did, and we've been trying to figure one out, it would be great to do the really, dark scary...we got caught in that weird PG-13 R no man's land...and we should do the hard R, scary version, which I would love to do"
When asked about the I AM LEGEND Prequel/Sequel/follow-up we heard was being mulled some time ago, the director succinctly indicates...
I don't think that's ever gonna happen...
Is it just me? I'd much rather see Keanu make a third BILL & TED movie than another CONSTANTINE picture, but I would welcome a hard-R interpretation of HELLBLAZER (CONSTANTINE's source material - available HERE). Or any kind of hard R film, for that matter - I'm still finding many PG-13 films too diluted for my tastes.
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