Overview
- DC Studios announced on November 9 that co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran will step down and that former Marvel executive Jeremy Latcham will assume leadership on December 1.
- Director Francis Lawrence says he has a finished script and that Keanu Reeves, writer Akiva Goldsman and producer J.J. Abrams want to make Constantine 2, and he called the outgoing leaders an impediment to progress.
- Separately, the studio recently commissioned filmmaker Francis Galluppi to write and direct a different, very early Constantine project, so two competing creative tracks currently exist.
- Lawrence has pitched the sequel as a hard-R, horror-leaning film, a tone that observers say could clash with Latcham’s publicly stated faith-and-family filmmaking priorities and raise approval risk.
- Final decisions rest with Latcham and parent-company stakeholders at Paramount/Skydance and Warner, so the next steps for casting, budgets and release timing remain unconfirmed and will determine whether either version moves out of development.