Hi David! Definitely a long over life update! I hope it comes to fruition (a year after you posted this!) and you don the trenchcoat again! From, A fellow Johnny boy cosplayer

Please do, this is the BEST depiction of Constantine ever, us Hellblazer fans are out there still hoping for a spot-on representation of the character and what you and everyone else involved in this short film did was amazing ! I hope it does come to fruition, hellblazer forever !!🔥

Very kind. Unfortunately our production team disbanded some years ago, so we don't have much of an social media presence any longer. Your, the director.

Unfortunately grown-up life got in the way and our production team went our separate ways. Thanks for returning to this film though, I'm glad people are still enjoying it. Yours, the director.

It would be nice, I'd love to return to the series, but grown-up life got in the way, we've started businesses and had kids and such since we made this short, so find it difficult making time to get the gang back together. I do write and draw comics when I get a bit of spare time though (not Hellblazer ones, unfortunately, I think DC would have something to say.)

Very kind words, Wilbur, and much appreciated. It pleases me a great deal that fans of the original Hellblazer run return to this short periodically. Between us, it was always my secret dream that some kind of showrunner would contact us in regards to developing a rebooted Constantine series, but it never happened :) Yours, the director.

Bless you, very kind. My sentiments too :)

Actually that scene from JLD will not be how John does things. Here, he wins by old school sleight-of-hand cheating, being a master con-man, but in JLD he just uses "magic". An important part of JC's character is that he is a conman who lies and cheats on a daily basis, not just a snarky British mage with some vices.

Matt’s Constantine suffered from mediocre writing at times. However he did say that he’d live to come back and do the “real” John Constantine. I’m absolutely sure he would absolutely kill it as the more morally bankrupt, cunning and manipulative John that we see in the Hellblazer comics. Matt is absolutely perfect and if he gets fantastic writing it would be one of the best shows ever made, because Constantine has always been one of the best writing and story in all pf comics.

@@luisz222 John isn't morally bankrupt

@@FirstnameLastname-my7bz i guess i chose the wrong word maybe morally ambiguous or questionable woulda been better.

@@luisz222 He is only either of these too because he is greatly limited and isn't put in convinient situations like "legit" heroes like Batman or Superman (unless very rare when both had to kill people during Bronze-post Crisis era comics) either of those beacons of Hope(tm) and no-kill bs were put into honest no-way situations they would be as bad if not worse than John or even comics version of The Seven (at the selective point before those superheroes went completely insane and evil).

Many thanks, pal, I (the writer/director) am a huge fan of the Vertigo Hellblazer comics and wanted to layer as much comic based info into the dialogue as could seem natural and hoped it would hit home with other big fans. I was upset when DC cancelled the Hellblazer title to (mis-)use Constantine in New 52, so for all intents and purposes wrote this film to be issue #301 and picked up where Milligan left off and put the characer back in the right direction. Anyways, I'm very glad you enjoyed it.

Richard Reynolds, This is pretty faithful to the source. I've got a few minor complaints, but that's more to do with the way I am than anything. Constantine is from Liverpool but he could have lost his accent over time and his look was originally based on Sting but how many people look like Sting, never mind how many look like him and can act? Despite the fact that I'm moaning about little things, this is a masterwork and I wish you the success that you so richly deserve. By the way I like that his name is pronounced properly for a change.

@@abegarfield3754 many thanks, dude. I too have quibbles with most adaptations beyond generally respecting them, it's a fun part of fandom. To address a few of your own, I wanted this short to act, essential, as issue #301 of the cancelled Vertigo run of the comics, so I wanted an actor that looked more like Simon Bisley's later interpretation than the early stuff, and I thought Dave looked dead-on. As far as the accent goes I would've liked as slight Scouse lilt, but Dave isn't great with accents so I thought a neutral accent would be better than a crap one, justifying it (if only to smooth out my own quibbles) as you point, with the fact that he left Liverpool in his mid-teens and has done hefty traveling since.

Also, props to the guys playing the demons! Classic Hellblazer patter! The makeup might be... meh, but their acting more than makes up for it!

Because he isn't part of the cape wearing crowd.