There are some apparent queries to ask following the ending to John Wick: Chapter 4, in which Keanu Reeves’ John Wick form of, like, dies, namely: Is John Wick basically useless?
While the franchise is continuing in two distinctive directions—a spinoff film Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas, and a spinoff prequel collection The Continental, starring Mel Gibson—the future of the John Wick film series alone is a little bit imprecise.
1 element is naturally Keanu Reeves. The actor has still left the door open up, outlining in an interview from before this yr that one more installment is dependent on reaction. “You have to see how the viewers responds to what we did,” Reeves said. “The only rationale we’ve had a likelihood to make these motion pictures is that persons have preferred what we have completed. So I think we have to wait and see how the viewers responds to it. With any luck , they’ll like it.”
Original viewers response appears solid. Even now, Reeves hasn’t still dealt with the film’s ending, the a single wherever his character is form of useless.
Even a lifeless John Wick may possibly not derail the franchise. (Chapter 4 introduces many new figures who could continue the tale even with no Keanu’s Wick though, it would make the next film’s title a bit awkward.)
Of course, John Wick could come again from the dead. (We in no way seriously see a human body, and the character has survived fairly grievous accidents just before.)
Below are director Chad Stahelski’s comments about a fifth installment last summertime:
“[As of right] now it is the studio’s [full] intention to continue the franchise. And glance, I’m not likely to– we’ve all seen administrators and producers wherever they go, “Certainly. I never know. I guess I’ll do five,” or it really is like, “Oh, yeah, yeah.” And I am just, “Glance, male. ‘John Wick 1’ was a goof. We created it as a enjoyable little motion movie that we would like to see.” And the fact that now 9 yrs afterwards, it truly is improved our lives. It transformed my lifetime. It changed Keanu’s lifetime. It is really changed a good deal of other people’s lives. And individuals nonetheless want to see much more.”
So, again, the answer is: Who appreciates.
In advance of Chapter 4’s premiere, however, Stahelski spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, giving a much more concrete respond to to the franchise’s potential:
“In our minds, Keanu and I are completed for the minute. We’re heading to give John Wick a relaxation. I’m certain the studio has a strategy. If everyone loves it and it goes kooky, then we’ll get a silent minute. Wicks usually, for some weird purpose, generally get the most up-to-date launch date in Japan. It is constantly like, 3 months later on. If it is the very same this time, we’ll do a Japanese tour and launch the motion picture in September. Keanu and I will choose the lengthy excursion to Tokyo, we’ll sit in the Imperial Lodge Scotch Bar and go, “What do you assume?” We’ll have a couple 20-year-aged whiskies and create some suggestions on napkins. If individuals strategies stick, probably we’ll make a motion picture.”
So it would seem the door is open up both equally at a manufacturing amount and at a narrative degree.
The only remaining question might be: if John Wick 5 takes place, will John Wick essentially be in it?
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Joshua St Clair is an Assistant Editor at Men’s Health Magazine.