Now that we are in the run-up to the electoral campaign —yes, again—, you are going to allow me the joke of the moment: if they say that one cannot trust the word of a politician, it seems that we can trust even less in those of the bosses of a studio or creative that he has a franchise as juicy as ‘John Wick’ on his hands —and beware, nothing happens either.
Yeah, I think I’m back (again)
Last March, after the colossal orgy of action and stunt impossible that ‘John Wick 4’ was to reach our theaters giving us a closure that seemed definitive to the epic of Baba YagaThe film’s director, Chad Stahelski, commented that the current plan was to “put John Wick to rest” and that he and Keanu Reeves were done “for now.”
Well, a couple of months later, Lionsgate executive John Drake has confirmed that The production company is already working on a fifth numbered installment of the saga. Undoubtedly, an expected maneuver despite previous statements that, even so, arrives ahead of schedule.
“The official thing is that Ballerina is the first spin-off and it will be released next year. We are developing three others, including [John Wick 5], and also a TV series, The Continental, which will air soon. We’re expanding the universe and by the time that fifth movie comes around, it will have grown organically from how we’re starting to tell those stories, but you can count on a regular John Wick cadence.”
As Drake clarifies, what is truly official at this time are the spin-offs for the big and small screen ‘Ballerina’ and ‘The Continental’, which could potentially be joined by others focused on characters like the Beggar King or Akira —my kingdom for a movie starring Rina Sawayama—; but when the river sounds, the return of Reeves shooting leads.
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