The long-awaited Constantine sequel just took a major step forward, with one of the producers behind the project, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, now revealing that a script is complete and is sitting in his “inbox right now.” Though he’s currently too scared to read it. Di Bonaventura made the revelation while speaking with Comicbook.com, with the producer eager to see where the story goes next. But why is he so scared to find out? Because, much like the fans, he’s desperate for Constantine 2 to be good.

“You know it’s in my inbox right now. Funny enough, I’m too scared to read it, though. I want it to be good so bad. I probably read it in the next few days. When I get on an airplane.”

Released back in 2005, and based on the DC comic “Hellblazer,” the first Constantine was helmed by Francise Lawrence and follows The Matrixand John Wick star Keanu Reeves as an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift. He can see the spirits of good and evil that live among us. But it’s a responsibility that he cannot stand and, after being damned to spend the afterlife in Hell, Constantine must atone for his actions, becoming a detective of the occult and the paranormal.

While Constantine was met with mixed reactions upon release, it has since garnered a passionate following, with the sequel having been in various stages of development for several years. Details of the project remain unknown at present, but it is expected that Reeves will return alongside director Francis Lawrence.

Constantine 2 Director Wants to Make the Sequel R-Rated

Since the first Constantine, major changes have happened at Warner Bros. Pictures and DC, with the comic book movie franchise now all set to be rebooted courtesy of James Gunn and Peter Safran. However, while Gunn’s Superman will launch the DCU in 2025, there could still be a place for Constantine 2under the “Elseworlds” umbrella, which will be used to tell DC stories outside the main continuity.

While nothing about Constantine 2 has yet been revealed, Francis Lawrence revealed back in 2022 that he would fight to make the sequel R-rated. Meaning that Constantine 2 could ride the wave of both Keanu Reeves’ popularity and the success of other R-rated comic book movies, such as this year’s billion dollar box office success, Deadpool & Wolverine. The director said at the time:

“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.
The idea is this time, at least for me, is to really go at it and make a real R-rated Constantine which is, I think, what people always wanted originally, not the PG-13 version that just happens to get an R.”

While we continue to wait for Keanu Reeves to return as Constantine, the actor has plenty in the pipeline, including returning as John Wick in the spinoff Ballerina, the comedy Good Fortune, Jonah Hill’s black comedy Outcome, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3, in which he will voice fan-favorite character, Shadow.