Halle Berry made her debut as Sofia through the occasions of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, serving as a good friend of Keanu Reeves’ eponymous hitman. While Berry herself has teased a return to the franchise at one level or one other, Wick helmer Chad Stahelski has now addressed the chatter head-on. According to the filmmaker, there have, the truth is, been talks to convey Berry’s character again for her personal challenge with the bigger John Wick Universe.
“Yeah. We have actually been in talks several times to try to… I hate the term spinoff,” Stahelski mentioned of Berry’s return on a latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. “But they are trying to do other satellite projects off the Wick franchise. Hopefully they’ll be good ones.”
What John Wick spinoffs are within the works?
In addition to a possible Berry-starring department, two spin-offs are positively within the works. Peacock has a restricted collection based mostly on The Continental within the works whereas filming is underway on Ballerina, a movie that may star Ana de Armas.
“It’s funny, Ballerina was sort of a long time coming, also. [Writer] Shay Hatten was like an intern for Robert Downey Jr., I had a general meeting with him, he was a huge John Wick fan, and he wrote Ballerina in a vacuum, like as a spec script,” John Wick producer Erica Lee recalled to Collider earlier this 12 months. “He gave it to me, I want to say five years ago, and I read it and was like, ‘Okay.’ It was an assassin, Rooney, it was a female character, but we optioned it and we’re like, ‘Let’s back this into [the] John Wick universe.'”
She continued, “Then we started developing and making it more Wick. But this was before we’d even shot John Wick 3. [There have] been iterations along the way, and as we keep learning more about the universe and creating new characters and refining the Wick world, that enters its way into Ballerina. So, even a year ago, when we were working on the script, it was like, ‘Okay, Winston was sort of there, and the Charon character, and Anjelica Huston, The Director’s character,’ but it was like, ‘What do we know now? What is the state of The Continental? What is the timeline? How are we breaking it? What are the reference points we can use?’ Ballerina is this constantly evolving ecosystem of a movie. It’s just been really fun to work on.”
Ballerina hits theaters on June seventh, 2024 whereas John Wick: Chapter 4 is now accessible for buy on digital film marketplaces earlier than its bodily residence media launch on June thirteenth. The first three movies within the franchise are streaming on Tubi.
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