In keeping with an interview with The Wrap’s Drew Taylor, Lawrence remains to be smarting from his battle with the MPA on “Constantine.” Lawrence was contractually obligated to ship a PG-13 film, so he noticed what he believed to be the requisite content material constraints. When his lower of the movie was slapped with an R ranking based mostly on the MPA’s “grey zone of depth,” he lamented his inventive compromise. “I might have made it a lot scarier and far more violent,” he says. “And I might have actually made an R-rated film.”
This outing, that is precisely what he is doing. “The concept is, this time, not less than for me, is to essentially go at it and make an actual R-rated Constantine which is, I believe, what individuals all the time needed initially, not the PG-13 model that simply occurs to get an R.”
That is an extremely encouraging improvement, however you would possibly need to pump the brakes in your enthusiasm. It is at present unclear as as to if the “Constantine” sequel will likely be Lawrence’s subsequent film. He simply completed “The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (a prequel to the blockbuster collection), and does not have a completed screenplay from Akiva Goldsman but. There are concepts being kicked round, and Keanu Reeves is totally on board, however nothing’s official till the digital camera’s are rolling. There’s additionally the matter of getting Warner Bros. on board with an R-rated comedian ebook film. Here is hoping Lawrence, who has much more trade pull than he did in ’05, will get the greenlight to go gritty.
