No Sequel For a Movie That...
profited by $130 million? What gives? We get sequels for Transformers and G.I. Joe that don't have plots nearly as good, but not one for Constantine? HOllywood sucks.
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I think it was actually the timing of the film. it was released early 2005, around February i think, and so by that time, all throughout 2004, audiences were privy to a whole slew of supernatural-martyr/exorcist/demon-exporter/flawed-hero type films, like Hellboy, Passion of the Christ, Van Helsing, Exorcist: the beginning, that this gem was really overlooked.
And you also need to factor in the view that there are a lot of people out there that really do not like Keanu's delivery. I actually find his "delivery" a bit lacking, but his ACTING on the other hand, he has a presence that few actors of his generation have. For example, you take someone like tom cruise, put him on screen with no lines, for about 2 mins, just a face shot. And then you have keanu, doing the same thing for 2 mins, you will find more subtle emoting in Keanu, an openess to his features, he has a kind of translucency, fragility and light, at the same time, something very unearthly and magnetic, that actually makes him perfect for constantine, and his genre of films.
If you notice too, he has played a messenger alien (klatu), a chosen saviour (Neo), a religious figure (Buddha) etc. A person who wakes up to his new destiny, or a new perspective, and has to sacrifice something or rather. I mean, it can be said, he is typecasted (althought if you look at his other films, he transitions well enough to other roles), but i really think there is something about Keanu that makes him perfect for the gentle tortured saviour roles.
Just my 2 cents, though. :)
Haha, i went off track there. But yes, I would really love to have a sequel to this. Maybe Constantine comes across someone younger who was just like him, and so he has to impart some of his skills to this new demon-exporter. train him, we saw little bit of this with Chaz Kramer, but it was never fully fleshed out.
The premise set up in Constantine is that there are a handful of humans who can peek beyond the veils of this world into the next, i think that really opens it up. We have ppl like isabel and angela, who have the natural gifts to see, and then we have constantine, a suicide case, died and as a result HAS to see. So, the new demon-exporter Constantine has to train, can be of this two variety. or a third new one, if they can think of something new.
It could be a boy or a girl. And better yet, judging from the themes of loyalty and allegiance, this new apprentice is always on the line, and we never truly knows where he or she stands, or what he or she chooses in the end.
Constantine then takes on the role of a "father", protector, judging from chaz kramer's death, there is reason for him to show a bit more causality towards his new charge.
it could actually be an interesting development of the story. Supernaturally, i quite like also if the movie kept its focus small. Not like a whole end of the world apocalypse thing, but like the original movie, a kind of quietly planned politcal overthrow of satan by his own son. these smaller and more focused plots are more interesting and really ground the story, instead of being run of the mill "we have to save the world".
The half-breeds premise is also very interesting to develop. I'm sure there would be plenty of idea from the comics too!
Should've been a sequel to this movie, we get three Twilights and only ONE Constantine movie or just three Blade movies??
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I wish there was a sequel.
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