Jess Nevins has a cool site on pulp heroes of the first half of the 20th Century, including many links to other locations for the more popular figures.
Keanu Reeves as John Constantine? I don’t know if Constantine would laugh his bloody head off, or else exact a particularly gruesome (if ironic) revenge. Probably both.
I’m sure there’s some significance that once upon a time, detergents touted how white they made laundry. Then, for years, we learned how different detergents would protect all your vivid colors. But twice over the last week, I’ve caught ads (one for Woolite, one for Cheer) about how their laundry soaps will protect your black clothes, keeping them dark and, er, black. Is Goth finally in the mainstream? Or is it just that the geeky-black-t-shirt crowd (ahem) finally got into the ad agencies?
Sure Keenu Reeves.
Their premise is only Constantine in their dreams.
American?
A Bowling Alley?
Please please please have him smoke Marlboros.
Leave the Silk Cuts with the story – all behind…
And they can do what ever they want.
It will make entertaining video fodder.
Ain’t no way in … er… hell … I’ll spend flash cash to see it in the theater.
Idjits.
I can understand (though regret) the desire to make him American. And while being a Brit lends him some charm (and some good story fodder), the “Rake at the Gates of Hell” can be made an American Bastard without too much being lost (and, perhaps, some gain).
I felt a lot better about the project, though, when Nicholas Cage was the gent being cast as John.