Keanu Reeves formally returning to “John Wick 5 ”after ambiguous character destiny

John Wick lives!

Keanu Reeves is formally set to return to the upcoming John Wick: Chapter 5, Lionsgate confirmed at CinemaCon on Tuesday. The star and producer will re-team with franchise director Chad Stahelski, in addition to producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee.

"Keanu, Chad, Basil, and Erica wouldn’t return until that they had one thing really phenomenal and contemporary to say with these characters and this world," Adam Fogelson, chair of the studio's Movement Image Group, stated in a press release. "We are able to’t anticipate audiences to see the place the journey takes us subsequent."

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The newest movie from the blockbuster franchise, 2023's John Wick: Chapter 4, ended on a comparatively ambiguous observe for Reeves' hitman. The character appeared to have died following a duel with Invoice Skarsgård's Marquis de Gramont, although there's a shot of Wick's canine wanting again at his grave.

Stahelski has already indicated that the scene in query was "very deliberate" and that an alternate model of the ending confirmed Wick very a lot alive. "We had a special ending,” Stahelski instructed Empire in 2023. "We shot an ending the place you really noticed John Wick on the finish of the film. So it was very clear that he was nonetheless alive. The audiences we examined with completely most popular the ambiguous ending.”

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And a few extra information out of of CinemaCon: the Caine spin-off film starring and directed by martial arts icon Donnie Yen is ready to start manufacturing in Hong Kong later this 12 months. As for that animated prequel movie centered on Wick earlier than the occasions of the primary movie as he completes the Inconceivable Job, Reeves is ready to supply that anime alongside Stahelski, Iwanyk, and Lee. Shannon Tindle will direct, whereas Vanessa Taylor will write.

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"To have the chance to develop a John Wick anime appears to be the proper development for the John Wick world," Stahelski stated in a press release. "I really feel John Wick is the proper property for this medium — anime holds the potential to broaden our world, our characters, and our motion in methods unimaginable earlier than.”

No particulars on launch dates for all of these options but, however the spin-off Ballerina with Ana de Armas hits theaters on June 6.

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