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April 17th, 2003 - latest on Constantine Taken from E-Online. On Constantine: X2 producer Lauren Shuler Donner also talked up her adaptation of Vertigo's Hellblazer, this one set to star Keanu Reeves and to be directed by music-video guy Francis Lawrence. (Remember that Justin Timberlake video on the Bally's commercial? That's Lawrence at work!) "We start filming September 15," said Donner. "We'll be out next summer. We're going to make it here in L.A." So what about the controversy? In which the movie version turns the very British John Constantine (fanboy dream-casting has always had Tim Roth in the lead) 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." <<< Back To Index.