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With three box-office busting films under one banner and a fourth one on the way for 2022 (and a fifth one confirmed after that), there’s no getting around the stone cold fact that the John Wick franchise is alive and healthy and very much on the minds of moviegoers around the globe. Since 2014, unlikely action star (and loveable for that very salient reason) Keanu Reeves (My Own Private Idaho, The Matrix, The Last Time I Committed Suicide) has been blasting and bare-knuckling his way through a series of increasingly high-stakes gauntlets as a retired hitman with a soft spot for animals and a penchant for vengeance. But are five films really enough to do justice to the intricate universe that has been created for Mr. Wick and company, or is there an appetite among fans for more outlandish and wonky action that as of now remain largely unexplored, so vast is the canvas that filmmakers are plying their wares upon? Lionsgate execs are wagering that the iron is indeed hot on this opus, and thus it has been announced through the good services of our Tarasov Russian Mafia aficionados over at The Hollywood Reporter that accomplished Cuban actress Ana de Armas (Blade Runner 2049, No Time to Die, Knives Out) is in some pretty serious negotiations to star in an upcoming spinoff to the John Wick franchise, Ballerina.
De Armas has officially begun negotiations to serve as the lead star in director Len Wiseman’s (Swamp Thing, Total Recall, Underworld) upcoming Lionsgate film Ballerina, according to sources close to the John Wick spinoff. De Armas is the very definition of the so-called “breakout star”, having acted in an eye-opening number of recent box-office champions such as the latest James Bond hit and the sleeper success Knives Out.
Ballerina is written by John Wick veteran scribe Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapter 3). Producing this new take will be Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee and Chad Stahelski. Steering this particular ship for Lionsgate will be Brady Fujikawa and Chelsea Kujawa.
If all of the above just isn’t enough John Wick-goodness Dear and Constant Reader, console yourself with this extra morsel: Lionsgate TV has greenlit a Wick prequel event series entitled The Continental for Starz sometime in the near future. The future is coming up roses for this innovative and groundbreaking series of films!
