scifi.com: X2 producer Lauren Shuler Donner told SCI FI Wire that her next comic-book movie, Constantine, based on Vertigo Comics' John Constantine: Hellblazer, will be darker than her X-Men sequel. "It's PG-13, like X-Men, but the character doesn't have superpowers," Shuler Donner said. "It's really focused on John Constantine, and it's more spiritual. He sends demons back down to hell. It's a darker tone." [...] Production begins in September.
But at least we won't have to suffer through Keanu trying to do an accent. That's the lesser of two abominations, I suppose.
Also: Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider, James Marsden (Cyclops) as Jesse Custer. Fear. Fear!E Online: So what about the controversy? In which the movie version turns the very British John Constantine into an American? "Well, what we're saying is that he's American and this story does take place in L.A., but we do intimate that he works in many different cities," she said. "He's had many different adventures--in India, in London. He's a worldly character, basically."
Finally, we wonder if the Constantine plot was taken from a specific Hellblazer issue? "Do you know 'Dangerous Habits'?" Donner said, referring to one of the comic's greatest story arcs, penned by Preacher creator Garth Ennis when he took over writing the comic in 1991. "There's a lot of 'Dangerous Habits' in it."