John Wick: Chapter 4 director Chad Stahelski reportedly said the franchise’s future was solidified. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was scheduled for release on May 27, 2022, before going on hiatus for almost a year until 2023.
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Clancy Brown also joined the film in an unknown role, along with other franchise recruits such as Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada, Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, Japanese-British pop superstar Rina Sawayama, and Ana de Armas. The returning star in the John Wick saga involves Ian McShane as Winston, Lance Reddick as Charon, and Laurence Fishburne as The Bowery King.
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John Wick Director Gives Future Franchise Update
The director also said that the future of the franchise currently hangs with Lionsgate, although its prosecution is likely. In a recent interview with Collider, Chad Stahelski answered about the possibility of the 5th episode.
“[As of right] now it’s the studio [full] intend to continue the franchise.
“We made it into a fun little action movie that we’d love to see.” And the fact that nine years later, it changed our lives. It changed my life. It changed Keanu’s life. It changed the lives of many other people. And people always want to see more.
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The 5th installment also received the green light from Lionsgate in August 2020 with the aim of filming back-to-back with Chapter 4 which is set to hit theaters on March 4, 2023.
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Lionsgate wants more John Wick and greenlights future
If we go back a year, Lionsgate CEO John Feltheimer also said that:
“We are also busy preparing scripts for the next two installments of our John Wick action franchise, with John Wick 4 set to hit theaters Memorial Day weekend 2022.”
“We hope to shoot both 4 and 5 back to back when Keanu is available early next year.”
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Filming for Chapter 4 began in June 2021, with the film set to shoot in Berlin, Paris, Japan and New York. And also, it’s the first project that wasn’t written by series creator Derek Kolstad. Chapter 3 co-writer Shay Hatten is currently handling writing work with Michael Finch.
John Wick: Chapter 4 is set to hit theaters on March 4, 2023.
Source: Cbr
