‘John Wick 5’ has been confirmed by Lionsgate.
The film is to be shot back-to-back with the fourth chapter of the hitman movie franchise, which options Keanu Reeves because the titular character, when the Hollywood actor is out there ”early subsequent yr”.
Speaking throughout an earnings name, Lionsgate CEO John Feltheimer mentioned: ”We’re additionally busy getting ready scripts for the following two instalments of our ‘John Wick’ motion franchise, with ‘John Wick 4’ slated to hit theatres Memorial Day weekend 2022.
”We hope to shoot each ‘John Wick 4’ and 5 again to again when Keanu turns into out there early subsequent yr.”
‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ was attributable to drop in May 2021, however the film was pushed again as a result of coronavirus pandemic, and it’ll now be launched on May 27, 2022.
One constructive is that the movement image now not clashes with ‘The Matrix 4’, which Reeves wants to finish on earlier than returning to shoot the fourth ‘John Wick’.
‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ director Chad Stahelski not too long ago revealed the film will incorporate unused motion sequences from the third movie within the collection, as a result of he ”did not have room” for them in ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum’.
He mentioned: ”There’s a pair issues. We had a few overlapping thematics, and I stripped it right down to the naked necessities.
”And there have been two motion sequences that we had actually form of conceived, however we simply did not have room for them. So, we pulled them from the film.
”And I’d prefer to assume that 90 p.c of what I pulled, there’s a spot in ‘John Wick 4’ that I can positively reinsert them.”
