DC Scrapped SWAMP THING After CONSTANTINE Bombed

The original film may have Americanized DC Comics' Hellblazer, but love for it has only grown since it was first released. As for Reeves, he is more popular now than ever before and appears to have become something of a passion project for the actor. There have been conflicting reports about what is happening with Constantine 2, though it is still thought to be in the works and will likely be released under DC Studios' "Elseworlds" banner if and when it happens. In 2021, it was revealed that John Wick star Keanu Reeves had agreed to reprise the role of John Constantine in a sequel to the 2005 film. Original Constantine writer Francis Lawrence signed up to step back into the director's chair

"After Constantine released and didn't do as well as the studio wanted, they had to cancel my contract on writing an official Constantine 2. They offered me two alternates and one was Swamp Thing. Now if you know the Constantine/Hellblazer world, Alan Moore wrote the original Swamp Thing and that was where John Constantine was first seen. So once I saw that I decided to pick Swamp Thing to write."

"I wrote it as a metaphysical horror film and wanted to put Constantine in it but i was not allowed for legal reasons. So I invented a character that had the same vibe as JC and called him Mr 'E'. That was a Joel Silver production and it never got made. Probably because Mr Silver wanted a giant talking plant man like the cheesy TV series and my draft was based on the darker cool world that Alan Moore originally did. I wish I could leak that script out so people could see how cool that film would have been."