Here’s some exciting news for John Wick fans out of CinemaCon 2025: the long-teased John Wick 5 is officially a go. A concept has been “locked in” and development is underway with series star Keanu Reeves.
And here’s more exciting news for John Wick fans to go with that: the franchise is also getting an animated prequel that will finally, at long last, reveal the “Impossible Task” that didn’t take, but for a brief moment allowed the title assassin to think he’d managed to retire from his crime-laden life. What could it be? It’s something so wild that Lionsgate decided animation was the only way to tell it right. It will, obviously, take place before the first John Wick movie, and is being written by Vanessa Taylor and directed by Shannon Tindle (Ultraman: Rising).
As we already knew, John Wick spin-off movie Ballerina arrives in June—and another spin-off has now been confirmed, with Donnie Yen starring (reprising his role of blind assassin Caine) and directing. It begins filming this summer. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Mattson Tomlin (The Batman Part II) will write the script.
Additional reporting by Germain Lussier.
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