Throughout its presentation at this yr’s CinemaCon, Lionsgate announced that it has greenlit manufacturing on one more John Wick function that can see Keanu Reeves return to reprise his function because the Baba Yaga. Although Lionsgate has not but shared any plot particulars or different casting bulletins, longtime John Wick director / producer Chad Stahelski, and producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee are hooked up to the challenge.
Talking at CinemaCon concerning the movie, Lionsgate Movement Image Group head Adam Fogelson assured attendees that Reeves, Stahelski, Iwanyk, and Lee wouldn’t signed on “until that they had one thing really phenomenal and contemporary to say with these characters and this world,” according to IGN.
Along with a brand new live-action film centering John Wick within the current, the bigger John Wick model will proceed to develop with an animated prequel starring Reeves that tells the story of how he as soon as accomplished the “unattainable job” (the franchise’s terminology for killing all of 1’s rivals in a single night time.) The animated challenge will probably be directed by Shannon Tindle (Ultraman: Rising) and written by Vanessa Taylot (Recreation of Thrones, The Form of Water.)
Lionsgate has additionally tapped Donnie Yen to each star in and direct a live-action spinoff constructed across the blind murderer character Caine, who first appeared in John Wick: Chapter 4.
Given the best way John Wick has been featured within the trailers for Ballerina, it’s not completely stunning to study that reviews of the character’s loss of life have been a bit exaggerated. However with Reeves returning to headline one other John Wick mainline movie, its much more clear now that Lionsgate intends to maintain Wick’s story going so long as it presumably can.