The Director of John Wick Is Still Trying to Work Out How to Make Keanu Reeves in John Wick 5 Make Sense Given the Ending of 4

John Wick 5 is authoritative and Keanu Reeves has signed connected to “give John’s communicative the due adjacent step.” We cognize that much. But, however tin that be, fixed the ending of John Wick 4? It turns retired that's thing of a head-scratcher adjacent for manager Chad Stahelski.

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? The Hollywood Reporter asked Stahelski if he'd managed to enactment that retired yet successful a caller interview. Here’s the exchange:

THR: You’ve said that John Wick 5 won’t renege connected the ending of 4, that John Wick volition inactive person died. Has that evolved? The past clip we spoke past year, you were trying to ace it.

Chad Stahelski: I’m not going to prevarication to you, it’s a spot of a conundrum. Me and Mike Finch — the writer connected 4 who’s besides penning 5 — we’ve got a beauteous bully communicative that I deliberation is cool. Once we person a 50-page book, and if we’re feeling it, we’ll beryllium with Keanu and signifier this thing. Look, everybody seems to privation it. It’s a substance of whether we ace it. We’re actively moving connected it. It’s conscionable … is it going to beryllium satisfying?"

Stahelski’s comments marque it dependable similar he’s inactive trying to enactment retired precisely what John Wick 5 is, which successful crook suggests it’s a just mode from production. In fact, Stahelski’s comments marque it dependable similar John Wick 5 mightiness not adjacent happen, if helium and his squad neglect to “crack it.”

Stahelski continued: “If we spell down the roadworthy of John Wick 5 and physique this communicative and determine this isn’t right, determination are astir apt going to beryllium 10 different things we’ll observe that we’ll usage for different things. It’s a large originative exercise. It’s being successful the country riffing with radical we love. That’s thing but wins.”

So, it’s not definite John Wick 5 volition happen?

Stahelski again: “The workplace would precise overmuch volition it into existence, I’m sure, astatine immoderate point. Look, they’ve been large and they’ve asked america to truly effort and we person a truly bully mates of ideas and we’re going to try.”

John Wick 5 is (probably) happening, then, but we don’t cognize what it is yet. What we cognize it isn’t is simply a prequel, arsenic Stahelski ruled that out: “Keanu and I are not funny successful going backwards.”

It’s worthy remembering that portion Keanu Reeves appears ageless, helium is successful information 60-years-old, and determination volition travel a constituent erstwhile helium is incapable to play Wick successful the aforesaid mode helium has before. So possibly he’ll play Wick successful a antithetic way. In March, Stahelski told Empire: “The saga of John Wick was beauteous wrapped up. 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 (the just-released Ballerina 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.

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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