Were you worried about the reaction youd get for treating old Bible stories with a comicbook sensibility?
I wasn’t worried, but I thought we would be dealing with some stuff and I thought it would be more offensive than it has been. I didn’t mean for it to be offensive, but I didn’t mean for it not to be offensive. We just wanted to make the movie we thought was cool and interesting. What’s been really weird is that when we finished the movie we started showing it to religious press and they’ve actually embraced it, which has been a strange surprise. It’s because they see a guy who’s struggling with his faith and this battle between good and evil and ideas of redemption, but what they’re not seeing are some of the jabs we’ve made against the Christian right with characters like Gabriel. They’re picking up only what they want to pick up and other people are picking up what they want. It’s been fascinating but I definitely thought people would be much more offended than they are. Do you believe in God and Satan? No. I’m not religious. It was the character [Constantine] that appealed to me. I
