# Constantine: The Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantine-the-movie/245958 "2004-05-19T13:53:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantine-the-movie/245958/21 "2004-05-20T17:51:11Z")
From the link **pulehoopo** posted: > [@Neil Gaiman](#): > > I tend to feel that the filmmakers started with two strikes against them, simply by casting Keanu Reeves instead of, say, Jude Law, but everything I’ve heard since has been encouraging I take it he hadn’t heard about the gold-cross-shotgun when he wrote the entry. ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantine-the-movie/245958/22 "2004-06-05T15:22:35Z")
Ran across the following tidbit from former _Hellblazer_ scribe Warren Ellis (buried somewhere in [this gigantic thread at The Message Board Which Shall Not Be Named](http://www.millarworld.biz/index.php?showtopic=28815)) that I thought needed to be shared with fellow _Constantine_ dreaders: "I’ve read the script. I apologise to the writers involved, who I’m sure worked very hard, but it’s bloody awful. It’s possible things got fixed on the set, I know there seemed to be an intent to do that – but in the script John Constantine is now a man with the (super)power to go to Hell. So long as his feet are immersed in a bucket of water. Seriously. I don’t think it would have killed them to put ‘adapted from the works of Jamie Delano and Garth Ennis’ on the script jacket, either, since it’s a Frankensteinian stitch-together of their runs on the book." [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantine-the-movie/245958.md?page=1)