The John Wick star is a veteran of stunts, and after the fourth outing because the murderer, he felt the necessity to holster his weapons for good.
John Wick: Chapter 4 might have been offered considerably because the conclusion of the story, however it’s additionally the entry that put the franchise within the billion-dollar membership. Lionsgate is now leaping on the probability to do extra Wick sequels with the collection’ star Keanu Reeves persevering with the position. That is regardless of the ending of the movie having what could be interpreted because the demise of John Wick. Nevertheless, the door is cracked open for a possibility to carry Keanu again with a simple rationalization ought to The Matrix star and the filmmakers select to return again for extra knuckles, kicks and bullets.
Basil Iwanyk, a producer on the franchise, reveals that Reeves was begging for there to be a particular conclusion to his character in order that he might lastly relaxation (which might additionally function a double that means for Keanu doing his personal stunts for 4 motion pictures). Iwanyk spoke with Collider to advertise the upcoming Wick prequel collection, The Continental, when he stated, “After the 2nd, third, and 4th film, making these movies is so exhausting and it destroys Keanu, bodily and emotionally. By the top, he’s at all times like, ‘I can’t do that once more,’ and we agree with him. The man is only a shell of himself as a result of he simply goes off and goes for it. He was like, ‘I wanna be definitively killed on the finish of this film.’ We had been like, ‘You understand, we’ll depart a ten% little opening.’”
Followers will be capable to see Keanu again within the position earlier than anticipated, as he’s set to make a cameo look together with the late Lance Reddick within the coming spin-off of the Wick movies, Ballerina. In Ballerina, Ana De Armas performs a personality who will get caught up within the underground world with Continental assassins and Reeves is about to seem for the reason that story takes place earlier than John Wick: Chapter 4.
Though Ballerina is on the horizon, The Continental is about to premiere, and there’s speak of a spin-off with Donnie Yen’s character, Iwanyk says folks nonetheless need extra John Wick, “All of us need one other John Wick. We don’t know what it seems like and when it would occur, however we love one another and we love this world. It’s gonna be all fingers to attempt to determine it out. Have we figured it out? No. And if we are able to’t determine it out, will there be one? No, in fact not. Nobody is gonna attempt to simply jam it for the sake of jamming it.”
The Continental is about to stream on Peacock on September 22.