Throughout its presentation at this 12 months’s CinemaCon, Lionsgate introduced that it has greenlit manufacturing on yet one more John Wick characteristic that may see Keanu Reeves return to reprise his position 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 connected to the challenge.
Talking at CinemaCon in regards to the movie, Lionsgate Movement Image Group head Adam Fogelson assured attendees that Reeves, Stahelski, Iwanyk, and Lee wouldn’t signed on “until they’d one thing really phenomenal and contemporary to say with these characters and this world,” in keeping with 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 evening.) The animated challenge will probably be directed by Shannon Tindle (Ultraman: Rising) and written by Vanessa Taylot (Sport 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 fully stunning to study that experiences 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.
