It’s a great time to be a John Wick fan. Subsequent week, somewhat beneath two years after it was initially supposed to come back out, John Wick: Chapter 4 will lastly arrive in theaters. Moreover, together with The Continental prequel collection anticipated to premiere on Peacock later this yr, there’s a by-product film coming referred to as Ballerina. Together with it lastly being confirmed that Reeves will seem in Ballerina reverse Ana de Armas, it’s been revealed why he and director Chad Stahelski determined to make a fourth film in the primary John Wick movie collection.
Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski have been on this John Wick journey collectively because the starting, with the latter having co-directed the primary film with David Leitch (who was credited as a producer) and helmed the opposite three motion pictures on his personal. With somewhat over every week to go till John Wick: Chapter 4’s huge launch, Reeves and Stahelski stopped by the film’s shock screening at SXSW, the place they confirmed that John Wick himself will certainly seem in Ballerina, which was initially reported final November, though it’ll solely be a cameo, not a supporting function. As for why they made John Wick 4, Reeves merely mentioned this to the group (by way of Deadline):
For him to get his freedom in a method, that was the rationale to inform the story.
After we left off with John Wick on the finish of Chapter 3: Parabellum, he’d simply fallen off the roof of The Continental after being shot by Ian McShane’s Winston, though it was quickly clear that the resort supervisor didn’t intend to really kill the title murderer. John was then retrieved and dropped at Laurence Fishburne’s Bowery King, who survived being slashed seven instances and went into hiding underground. With John simply as offended in the direction of the Excessive Desk as Bowery King, these two are able to wage battle on the crime council. As a result of like Keanu Reeves mentioned, John has to struggle for his freedom, they usually’re the one factor standing in his method.
Together with Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne and Lance Reddick (who performs Charon) all returning, the John Wick: Chapter 4 forged consists of new faces like Donnie Yen, Invoice Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada and Rina Sawayama, amongst others. Together with Chad Stahelski sitting again within the director’s chair, the film was written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch. John Wick: Chapter 4 has already obtained quite a lot of optimistic opinions, together with from CinemaBlend’s personal Eric Eisenberg, who gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars.
As for Ballerina, which is about between the occasions of the third and fourth John Wick motion pictures, it’ll observe Ana de Armas’ Rooney looking for revenge on the individuals who murdered her household. Along with Keanu Reeves cameoing, Ballerina’s forged additionally options Ian McShane, Lance Reddick and Anjelica Huston reprising their John Wick characters, and Gabriel Byrne, Norman Reedus, and Catalina Sandino Moren have been added in undisclosed roles. Len Wiseman is directing the spinoff, and Shay Hatten wrote the script with Emerald Fennell.
John Wick: Chapter 4 arrives in theaters on March 24, and we’ll let you already know when Ballerina is slotted into the theatrical calendar. When you’d wish to view the primary three John Wick motion pictures forward of the following installment, they are often streamed with a Peacock subscription.
