John Wick 5 Will Be ‘Really Different,’ Director Chad Stahelski Teases Following Keanu Reeves Confirmation

Following past month’s quality that John Wick 5 is authoritative and Keanu Reeves had signed connected to “give John’s communicative the due adjacent step,” franchise manager Chad Stahelski has begun to tease what fans tin expect from the movie — and it sounds similar things are going to beryllium antithetic this clip around.

How different? “Really different,” Stahelski told Empire magazine, present that the High Table storyline from John Wick 1-4 had travel to an end.

Warning! Spoilers for John Wick: Chapter 4 follow.

John Wick appears to dice astatine the extremity of John Wick: Chapter 4 after, erstwhile again, defeating the atrocious guys. We adjacent get to spot John Wick’s gravestone, with Winston (Ian McShane) and the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) saying their farewells. But, crucially, we lone spot John Wick illness from his injuries and appear to die.

So, however tin Reeves proceed arsenic Wick? We don’t person communicative details yet, but bash cognize that John Wick 5 volition archer a caller communicative that involves the titular character.

“The saga of John Wick was beauteous wrapped up,” Stahelski told Empire. “So the lone mode to bash a 5 is to person a caller communicative that involves John Wick. It’s not a continuation with the High Table. John dealt with his grief. It volition beryllium truly different, and everybody [will] spot the trailer and go, ‘Holy fuck... I gotta spot that.’ ”

It’s a engaged clip for the cardinal dollar John Wick franchise. In summation to the 4 mainline films, the John Wick Universe, arsenic it’s called, includes 2 spinoff films (Ballerina, to beryllium released June 6, and a spinoff directed by and starring Donnie Yen reprising his Caine character, acceptable to commencement accumulation this summer).

In addition, Lionsgate Television produced The Continental: From the World of John Wick for Peacock and Amazon Prime, and Lionsgate confirmed it’s processing the TV bid John Wick: Under the High Table, which Stahelski and Keanu Reeves are enforcement producing. There’s an animated prequel movie that volition archer the communicative of John Wick’s ‘Impossible Task,’ too.

It sounds similar the John Wick animated movie and the Under The High Table TV bid volition assistance physique into John Wick 5. “The John Wick TV amusement and the animation are large priorities,” Stahelski said. “Our thought is to effort immoderate things and research immoderate threads and usage those 2 properties to catapult america guardant into the ideas for John 5.”

Outside TV and films, Lionsgate precocious opened an immersive John Wick acquisition successful Las Vegas and has a John Wick AAA video crippled successful the works.

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