Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that Keanu Reeves’ classic 2005 DC movie Constantine is getting a 4K remaster, and it’s coming next year!
The 4K version of the movie will get a 4K UHD physical release, a limited edition 4K steelbook release, and a digital 4K version of the film on February 18th, which makes the 20th anniversary of the film’s theatrical release.
The new restoration of Constantine was sourced from the original camera negative and it was overseen by director Francis Lawrence.
Lawrence and Reeves also reunited for a new special feature in which they talk about how Constantine has grown in popularity and evolved over the last 20 years. You can watch a clip from that below.
When talking about the film in an interview with CB, Lawrence said: “It’s interesting because I never really thought of it as a comic book movie. That’s nothing negative or positive about comic book movies in general.
“It was really just that I was not a huge comic book person. I didn’t really have much knowledge of John Constantine and Hellblazer before reading the script. So the script was brought to me and it was my first dive into the world of Constantine.
“So I really just thought of him as a character that I really loved, and I thought of it as a world I would enjoy building.”
“You’d never seen John Constantine before. You had never seen that kind of contemporary noir with a character like this that borderlines this supernatural world. So it felt unique.
“And it just felt like there’s a lot of opportunity for the kinds of characters that I really like. I’m really drawn to very lonely figures and Constantine is certainly one of those.
“And it’s just a lot of fun, to create that world. So I think that, quite honestly, it just felt really unique and felt like a great opportunity, especially as a first film.”
Here’s the full list of special features included on the Constantine 4K disc:
New Feature – Two Decades of Damnation
Commentaries
Channeling Constantine
Conjuring Constantine
Holy Relics
Shotgun Shootout
Hellscape
Warrior Wings
Unholy Abduction
Demon Face
Foresight” The Power of Pre-Visualization
A Writer’s Vision
Director’s Confessional
Hopefully, that the long-awaited sequel that was previously announced happens one day!
