Raising Hell

By: Marc Shapiro
Date: Friday, January 28, 2005

"There's no way I'm going to make everybody happy," says the director regarding the creative license that have been taken with the Hellblazer comic. "In this movie John Constantine doesn't speak [British], he's not blonde and the movie takes place in Los Angeles. That's going to piss a lot of the hardcore Hellblazer fans off. It just is."
However, Lawrence says that there was, likewise, a lot of things that drew him to direct the adventures of supernatural detective John Constantine that will totally captivate the hardest of hardcore fans.
"When I first came on this movie, I saw this as an interesting and different script," he says. "'It goes to weird places and it has these great layers. And the heart of the character was definitely there. All of that was interesting to me."