Post by Ghost on Aug 20, 2004 12:07:11 GMT -5
For early 2005, Warner Bros. is putting out a movie version of the comic book Hellblazer. Now, I'm not into comic books all that much, so when I find Hellblazer and The Sandman comics I'm impressed. When it comes to Hellblazer, the gritty realism of it made it seem like it'd be a very good film. In fact, it's more film-like than comic.
For anyone who doesn't know Hellblazer: this series is about a yellow trench-coated, blond haired Londoner (modeled off of Sting) named John Constantine. This guy's a real bastard who gets into and out of situations by conning and manipulating events around him, even using the occult if he has to. Under this exterior, he's a nice guy, but he only lets onto that when nobody's looking. He's the kind of guy who could (and did) flip off Satan and tell him to, "Fuck off." Johnny lives between the struggle of Heaven and Hell, being to Hell himself several times.
In my opinion, the most important parts of John is his personality, his look and the milieu of England, where most of his horrific adventures take place. That being said, this is what Hollywood has planned:
Keanu Reeves, looking just like he did in The Matrix, takes the roll of Johnny. He doesn't play a Brit, but an American, living in Los Angelas. (Go figure, Angel). Constantine, at some point of the film creates a holy shotgun. (Holy shotgun? Makes me think of Monty Python's holy grenades... and that movie was supposed to be a lamp**n). Constantine has never used a gun that I can think of. Baseball bats, pipes, his forked-tongue, yeah, but a holy shotgun? Look, if Constantine created a holy shotgun, it wouldn't be used for blowing up demons. It'd be used for shoving it up one of God's angel's arses to blow their egos a new a******.
That said, if anybody knows of Hellblazer, let me know what you think. Oh, yeah, the Movie will be titled CONSTANTINE to keep from confusing Hellblazer with Clive Barker's Hellraiser series.
For anyone who doesn't know Hellblazer: this series is about a yellow trench-coated, blond haired Londoner (modeled off of Sting) named John Constantine. This guy's a real bastard who gets into and out of situations by conning and manipulating events around him, even using the occult if he has to. Under this exterior, he's a nice guy, but he only lets onto that when nobody's looking. He's the kind of guy who could (and did) flip off Satan and tell him to, "Fuck off." Johnny lives between the struggle of Heaven and Hell, being to Hell himself several times.
In my opinion, the most important parts of John is his personality, his look and the milieu of England, where most of his horrific adventures take place. That being said, this is what Hollywood has planned:
Keanu Reeves, looking just like he did in The Matrix, takes the roll of Johnny. He doesn't play a Brit, but an American, living in Los Angelas. (Go figure, Angel). Constantine, at some point of the film creates a holy shotgun. (Holy shotgun? Makes me think of Monty Python's holy grenades... and that movie was supposed to be a lamp**n). Constantine has never used a gun that I can think of. Baseball bats, pipes, his forked-tongue, yeah, but a holy shotgun? Look, if Constantine created a holy shotgun, it wouldn't be used for blowing up demons. It'd be used for shoving it up one of God's angel's arses to blow their egos a new a******.
That said, if anybody knows of Hellblazer, let me know what you think. Oh, yeah, the Movie will be titled CONSTANTINE to keep from confusing Hellblazer with Clive Barker's Hellraiser series.
