What Happened on this Day 28th January

1986 - CHALLENGER Space Shuttle Explodes 73s after liftoff
1974 - I was born
1936 - Alan Alda was born
1915 - US Coast Guard founded
1807 - London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight
1788 - 1st penal colony in Australia founded (Botany Bay)
1596 - Sir Francis Drake died

Damn it all to hell.

As you probably don’t know or care about, Warner Brothers who own DC comics have made a movie adaptation of their comic ‘Hellblazer’ which the have re-titled ‘Constantine’ after the main character John Constantine.

Some comics to movies work (Hellboy, Spiderman, X-Men, Batman), some are ok (Daredevil, Blade, Crow), some are terrible (Judge Dredd, Hulk), some are a disaster waiting to happen (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), and one will be perfect, maybe (Sin City).

I haven’t seen Constantine. I will, and I am sure I will hate it. Mostly because the director has changed the story and told fans of the source material (and I both paraphrase and editorialise here) to grow up and accept that he has made it better by completely fucking with it.

In the comics Constantine is English, born in Liverpool. In movie world Constantine is American, born in California. Hey! It worked in High Fidelity (Liverpool – Chicago) didn’t it?

In the comics Constantine was based on Sting. In movie world Constantine is Keanu Reeves. Oh God.

Here are my casting choices:

Jason Statham


Paul Bettany


Sting




Still, let’s be rational about it. I’ll let someone else vocalise my feelings about it. Please listen here.