Constantine2 director Frances Lawrence wants a hard R-rating for Keanu Reeves sequel: “To really go at it and make a real R-rated Constantine which is, I think, what people always wanted originally, not the PG-13 version that just happens to get an R.”
Director Frances Lawrence opens up about wanting a hard R-rating for Keanu Reeves' Constantine 2. Constantine is based on the Hellblazer comic book series by Garth Ennis and Jamie Delano. Lawrence directed 2005's Constantine, which starred Reeves as John Constantine, an exorcist and demonologist who helps a police detective prove that her sister's death wasn't a suicide. Reeves shared the screen with Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Djimon Hounsou, Peter Stormare, and Tilda Swinton.
"One of the biggest things for me about the first one was we followed, per Warner Bros., the rules to make a PG-13 movie in terms of violence, blood, language, sexuality. But the ratings board gave us a hard R based on their the gray zone of intensity. And my big, big regret was that we have an R-rated movie that’s really a PG-13 movie. And if I was going to have to go have an R, I would have really made an R-rated movie.
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