Ballerina: Exclusive Photos From the John Wick Spin-Off

IGN tin exclusively uncover 4 caller photos from the upcoming John Wick spin-off Ballerina up of the adjacent trailer dropping online tomorrow, March 19, astatine 7am PT. Scroll done the assemblage beneath for caller images of formed members Ana de Armas, Ian MacShane, Norman Reedus and Anjelica Huston.

In Ballerina, de Armas stars arsenic Eve Macarro, an assassin grooming successful the traditions of the Ruska Roma, 1 of the organizations that has a spot astatine the High Table. The Ruska Roma are led by Huston’s character, The Director, and run retired of the Tarkovsky Theater. The Director is besides John Wick’s adoptive parent arsenic was revealed successful John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.

"Ballerina takes spot successful the John Wick satellite aft the extremity of John Wick Chapter 3 and earlier the commencement of John Wick Chapter 4,” John Wick prima Keanu Reeves, who cameos successful Ballerina, explained successful a connection to IGN. “It was truthful large to person the accidental to play John Wick again and observe much of the John Wick world."

Scroll done the assemblage beneath for exclusive images from Ballerina.

In an email interrogation with IGN, de Armas sang the praises of some Reeves and the John Wick franchise.

“I person had the pleasance of moving with Keanu 3 times already, and Ballerina was peculiarly peculiar due to the fact that it was maine stepping into his world. The satellite of John Wick, which is truthful loved by the fans. I respect and admit Keanu arsenic an artist, arsenic a idiosyncratic and arsenic a friend, he’s a person and unit connected set, and ever a gentleman,” de Armas wrote.

“His creativity and input during the rehearsal is ever truthful inspiring, helium knows these films amended than anyone and I loved having him by my side. When I saw him walking connected acceptable dressed arsenic John, it was beauteous surreal. I’ll ne'er hide that day. Keanu has ever been a immense power connected me, since the time we met. I ne'er imagined I was going to enactment with him again; and present we are, surviving a truly chill afloat ellipse moment.”

So who precisely is the Ballerina? “Eve Macarro was recruited and trained by the Ruska Roma to beryllium a ballerina and assassin. She had a precise traumatic acquisition arsenic a kid erstwhile she witnessed immoderate men sidesplitting her father,” de Armas wrote. “The details astir these men person been kept from her for years, but Eve cannot fto it go, truthful she embarks connected a travel to find them and instrumentality vengeance, violating pacts and rules that volition bring precise atrocious consequences for her.”

De Armas continued: “Eve has been trained to beryllium the champion among the best, by the aforesaid radical that trained John Wick, but she’s a woman, smaller than astir men successful the film, truthful I wanted to find a mode of gathering the fights embracing that quality, utilizing it to my advantage. I wanted to beryllium realistic with the efforts she makes to enactment live and the symptom she’s feeling each measurement of the way. Because she’s a ballerina, she’s precise bully with adjacent combat flights, she’s accelerated and ever 3 steps ahead, utilizing existent beingness objects arsenic weapons, turning elemental things into thing deadly, which is simply a prime that I love. This besides allowed america a benignant of state erstwhile creating amusive and absorbing fights, each acceptable portion was our playground.”

Ballerina is the archetypal movie successful the John Wick franchise to not beryllium directed by Chad Stahelski, with Len Wiseman (the Underworld series, Live Free oregon Die Hard) stepping down the camera this time.

IGN precocious asked Wiseman astir the situation of adopting the distinctive aesthetic of specified a fashionable existing franchise portion besides attempting to enactment his ain directorial stamp connected it: “The code and aesthetic of John Wick is mostly what I emotion and respect astir the franchise. So my attack with Ballerina was multi-layered; I wanted it to consciousness acquainted and connected successful ways that fans similar myself would anticipation it to be, portion bringing successful galore caller and originative layers of my ain arsenic a filmmaker. It was a challenging balance, but 1 I was excited to tackle. I had amusive with it.”

Ballerina hits theaters June 6th.