DC Studios Taps Francis Galluppi to Pen a New John Constantine Film

DC Studios has chosen Evil Dead Wrath writer-director Francis Galluppi to pen a John Constantine film for the company.

The announcement arrived through a recent report indicating the project is still at the very beginning of development. It remains unclear whether Galluppi will also direct, and no casting information has been shared yet.

John Constantine is a comic character created by author Alan Moore, along with artists Steve Bissette and John Totleben. He is a hard-living British investigator who works with occult forces and magic.

Keanu Reeves once portrayed a version of the character in 2005’s Constantine, and fans have hoped for a sequel for many years. In late 2025, Reeves shared an update on Constantine 2, saying a fresh draft of the script had already been completed and was ready to be shown to DC Studios. Since then, there have been no further updates, and it is unknown whether Galluppi’s script is meant as a sequel to Reeves’ film or as an entirely new approach to the supernatural detective.

Galluppi’s Evil Dead Wrath is currently slated to reach theaters on April 7, 2028. The movie will serve as the seventh installment in the Evil Dead series and a prequel to 1981’s The Evil Dead, with its story set in 1972. Galluppi first developed the idea and presented it to series originator Sam Raimi and his team in 2024, following the attention he earned for his debut feature, The Last Stop in Yuma County.

Around that period, Raimi told Deadline:

• Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who understands precisely when to hold us in tense silence and when to strike with intense force.
• He is a director who displays rare control in his first feature.