John Wick 5 in Early Improvement, Says Lionsgate

John Wick: Chapter 4 launched in theaters a couple of months in the past and solely not too long ago hit streaming for individuals who wished to see it in their very own dwelling. Although the film provides a reasonably conclusive finish to the story of Keanu Reeves’ unflappable and enduring murderer, it seems that ultimate chapter wasn’t fairly so ultimate as you’d suppose.

Throughout a latest earnings name, Lionsgate’s movement image chair Joe Drake spoke on the way forward for the now $1 billion franchise. Together with subsequent 12 months’s Ballerina starring Ana de Armas, future installments are “in growth…together with John Wick 5 and [the Peacock series] The Continental.” The assassin-heavy world of the flicks will continued to be constructed out, he added, and the fifth film “shall be organically grown out of how we’re beginning to inform these tales.”

Lionsgate and longtime director Chad Stahelski has been coy about whether or not or not Chapter 4 actually could be the final of those, so it’s not too stunning to listen to they’re pulling the set off on one other. Likewise, it’s been made clear that the aim is to maintain the franchise going with or with out Reeves. So the following mainline film has some fascinating instructions so far as the place it may well go and who a few of the main gamers in it may well find yourself being.

For Lionsgate, Drake stated the aim is to have a “common cadence of John Wick,” and a part of that additionally features a online game. It’s been previously suggested {that a} massive finances triple-A title was being pursued, and Drake confirmed that the corporate is “persevering with to have these conversations” about it. There’s apparently a “ton of power” round making this occur, and proposals have been despatched from undisclosed builders. Whoever finally ends up making the sport, it’ll be the second within the sequence, following Bithell Video games’ John Wick Hex in 2019.

Given how enjoyable the franchise has been thus far, extra John Wick is at the moment an excellent factor. However it’s simply as simple that Lionsgate oversaturates the sequence—which has occurred with so many different franchises—and finally ends up scuttling the goodwill it’s earned over the previous decade. Hopefully this “cadence of John Wick” takes the time to chill out earlier than getting again on the market.

[through Gamespot]

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