The billion-dollar franchise is now expanding with spinoffs, which began with The Continental, Peacock's limited series about a young Winston Scott's rise to power in New York City. The next project will be Ballerina, the first spinoff feature film in the franchise.
Ballerina, the spinoff movie starring de Armas as another assassin in the John Wick universe, has been pushed back a year and will now hit theaters June 7, 2025, EW has confirmed.
Lionsgate announced today that Ballerina will be pushed back a full year, with the release date moving from June 7, 2024 to June 6, 2025. Deadline reports that the release date push will give Ballerina the opportunity to do a few reshoots.
Ballerina (titled Leap! in the United States) is a 2016 3D animated musical adventure comedy film co-directed by Éric Summer and Éric Warin and written by Summer, Carol Noble and Laurent Zeitoun.
Lionsgate is developing a John Wick spinoff movie around Donnie Yen's Caine assassin character. Yen will reprise his John Wick: Chapter 4 role in the untitled project set to shoot in Hong Kong in 2025.
BALLERINA: A JOHN WICK Story – First Trailer (2024) Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas | Lionsgate
How does a Ballerina fit into John Wick?
BALLERINA is set between the events of JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 — PARABELLUM and JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4.. The main character, Rooney, is actually seen briefly in PARABELLUM. As John Wick enters the domain of Anjelica Huston's character, Rooney is dancing solo on stage. She's played by real-life ballerina Unity Phelan.
Franchise star Ian McShane can't say for sure that his Winston character is the father of Keanu Reeves' John Wick, but he's happy to fuel the fan theories. In John Wick: Chapter 4, it was subtly teased that there may be a family connection between Winston and John Wick.
As reported by The Wrap, the first trailer for 'Ballerina' shown at CinemaCon 2024 confirms that Ana de Armas and Keanu Reeves' characters will meet. This has profound implications for the movie's plot, as one of the most recurring questions about the movie was whether John Wick would appear in it.
Odette was considered to be the best dancer of her generation before an accident caused her to become disabled. She would become a cleaner to the Opera house for the next ten years, at the same time she would work under Regine Le Haut.
Synopsis. John Wick 5 is in development, with Chad Stahelski working on the story. While a release date is yet to be confirmed, the cast is expected to include Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, and Laurence Fishburne. The plot remains a mystery, but fans can expect more adrenaline-fueled action from the legendary hitman.
John Wick 5 would likely have to be a prequel for Keanu Reeves to return. Or, it could focus on totally new characters with a fresh cast. While fans may be excited to hear that John Wick 5 is potentially in the works, this announcement may also bring up some confusion.
John Wick 5 was technically confirmed in May 2023, but nearly a year on and we're no clearer whether it's actually happening. In July 2023, Chad Stahelski – who has directed all four John Wick movies to date – said that he didn't know that a fifth movie would happen.
McShane revealed the main reason Ballerina takes place before Chapter 4 is to keep the suspense alive ahead of John Wick 5, which is currently in development. "This one is set in between John Wick 3 and John Wick 4, because Keanu is in it, too.
Félicie is an 11-year-old fair-skinned slender girl of medium height with hip-length fiery red hair with bangs neatly parted from the right side and small fringes in the crease in a French braided tied with light blue ribbons, tourmaline green eyes and some freckles on her cheek.
Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldn't protect, ex-bodyguard Ok-ju sets out to fulfill her dear friend's last wish: sweet, sweet revenge. Watch all you want. Starring Jun Jong-seo ("The Call", "Burning") as the fearless heroine Ok-ju.
The year-long delay for Ballerina is sure to turn heads, but Lionsgate insiders say it is because the film will be filming additional action sequences under the guiding hand of director Chad Stahelski, the mastermind behind the John Wick franchise.
John was born Jardani Jovonovich in a Padhorje village somewhere in the Byelorussian SSR of the Soviet Union to a Ruska Roma family on September 2, 1964. He was orphaned at a young age before being taken in by an old friend of his father, Winston, who would eventually become John's mentor.
Is Marcus John Wick's Dad? Marcus, who we see in the first movie, appears to be only an old friend of John's. It's easy to wonder if there's a family connection between the two with Marcus' desire to keep John alive and aid him against Viggo Tarasov. It seems unlikely that Marcus is John Wick's father, though.
Played by Shamier Anderson, Mr. Nobody, also known as Tracker, is a bounty hunter with his sights set on Keanu Reeves' eponymous assassin, though bides his time taking Wick down until the reward hits a certain point.
