OMFG

[learnedax]

OK, remakes are of course commonplace in film, and some of them seem a bit ill-considered. Liev Shreiber is The Manchurian Candidate, I'll buy that. Frank Oz remakes The Stepford Wives, a little odd. But... Keanu Reaves is John Constantine??? What is this, an attempt to make every Alan Moore adaptation worse than the last?

Comments

Confusion

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to easedrop on the moviegoers who think Constantine is a sequel to Matrix:Revulsion. I just hope Moore is getting stupid rich off this. That and I really want to see an interview with Keenu and Moore in the same room. One of those things that make reality go foop.

My prsonal dream casting has Robert Carlyle as John Constantine. He could have gotten the accent right and he smokes with more pathos and less cool.

Re: Confusion

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I doubt Moore gets any money from this. Constantine's creation was in a work-for-hire book, and before there was any precedent for "rectroactive creator credit".