DarkObserver, 11. Oktober 2003 um 20:17:30 MESZ

First pics of Keanu as Constantine....

can be found at this excellent website:

www.insanerantings.com

The director is reported to have said, that they won't have Keanu bleach his hair and that John Constantine won't be an Englishman but a resident of L.A. more in the tradition of hard-boiled detective characters with some magic and mystery thrown in.

After the dreadful "League of Extraordinary Bullshit" adaption of a great DC comic book by Alan Moore, I fear the worst for the movie version of one of my favorite comic characters to date.

Well, "mates"...I'm opposed to the casting of Keanu Reeves to begin with. Let's just hope they won't totally succeed in watering down and destroying the character us Hellblazer fans have come to love -and sometimes- hate. The website mentions -I guess as a consolation of sorts- that they at least seem to have kept Constantine's taste for booze and tobacco intact.

But reading somewhere else that they want it to get a PG-13 rating I'm afraid this is bound to be another catastrophe. If you strip all the horror, perversion and downright evil contained in John Constantine's universe as depicted in the comic what have you got left? Not much.

The comic is intended for ADULTS and even among those only for the hard-boiled ones with strong stomachs and no religious or other ideological prejudice. Except maybe a certain understanding or even identification with the way of the underdog, the loner, the outcast.

I have a lot of insight in that respect and I have symathized with this particular comics character more than with any other. Just today I received the precious trade paperback containing his very first appearance ever in Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing." I'll get very angry, should the movie-makers spoil him big-time...

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