CONSTANTINE’s Keanu Reeves, Director Francis Lawrence, Producer Akiva Goldsman Discuss Film At Comic-Con@Home Panel

“There’s no use sitting on the bench if you’re not ready to play, right?” – Chas Kramer (Shia LaBeouf) CONSTANTINE.

The film CONSTANTINE is celebrating the 15th anniversary of it’s release. Based on the ground-breaking DC/Vertigo comic book “Hellblazer,” Keanu Reeves plays John Constantine, a modern-day mystic on a personal quest to send demons hiding on Earth back to Hell. The character of John Constantine was introduced by comic book writer/creator Alan Moore while writing the Swamp Thing, first appearing there in June 1985.

The movie also starred Shia La Beouf, Tilda Swinton, Rachel Weisz, Djimon Hounsou and Peter Stormare. Opening in the U.S. on February 18, 2005 and ending its theatrical run on June 16, 2005, the film took in $76 million.

On Saturday, Keanu Reeves, director Francis Lawrence, and producer Akiva Goldsman reunited to reflect on the making of the 2005 DC Comics adaptation. The Comic-con At Home panel was moderated by Collider’s editor-in-chief Steven Weintraub.

For fans of the film (me included), it was a terrific discussion with some great questions.

Some of the highlights of the 45 minutes panel:

They talked about the rating of the film, the gun prop that Keanu gave to Francis after the film, shooting in Los Angeles, the cool cast and their love of the film, plus Reeve’s funny answer about giving him blonde hair and a British accent like in the comics.

The biggest highlight was the discussion about the after credit scene, which as moderator Weintraub mentions “wasn’t the norm at the time,” and how they went and filmed it afterwards to add it to the end of the movie and a possible sequel.

Check out these deleted scenes from the special features of “Constantine”