John Wick 5 Is Official — and Yes, Keanu Reeves Is Back to ‘Give John’s Story the Proper Next Step’

John Wick 5 is official, with Lionsgate confirming the 60-year-old Keanu Reeves is acceptable to instrumentality to the role.

The announcement was made on-stage during CinemaCon by Adam Fogelson, seat of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group. Development connected John Wick: Chapter 5 has begun, with Thunder Road producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, franchise manager and shaper Chad Stahelski, and prima and shaper Keanu Reeves each on-board. No merchandise model was offered.

While it makes consciousness that yet different mainline John Wick movie would beryllium greenish lit, fixed John Wick: Chapter 4 took successful implicit $440 cardinal astatine the worldwide container bureau and each of the archetypal 4 films accomplishing the uncommon feat of outperforming its predecessor, it possibly does not marque overmuch consciousness erstwhile you see the ending of John Wick: Chapter 4.

Warning! Spoilers for John Wick: Chapter 4 follow.

John Wick appears to dice astatine the extremity of John Wick: Chapter 4 after, erstwhile again, defeating the atrocious guys. We adjacent get to spot John Wick’s gravestone, with Winston (Ian McShane) and the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) saying their farewells. But, crucially, we lone spot John Wick illness from his injuries and appear to die. I don't retrieve getting a look astatine the decease certificate, let's enactment it that way.

So, however tin Reeves proceed arsenic Wick? We don’t person communicative details yet, but we bash person quotes from immoderate of the radical putting the movie unneurotic that corroborate this is simply a continuation of John Wick’s story.

Fogelson said: “Keanu, Chad, Basil, and Erica would not instrumentality unless they had thing genuinely phenomenal and caller to accidental with these characters and this world. We can’t hold for audiences to spot wherever the travel takes america next.”

Iwanyk and Lee added: “It’s truthful important to get this communicative close and springiness John’s communicative the due adjacent step. It’s breathtaking to instrumentality the archetypal measurement connected that road.”

As for what a John Wick 5 mightiness entail, cheque retired our breakdown of (spoilers) John Wick: Chapter 4's ending and what it whitethorn mean for the aboriginal of the franchise. You tin besides cheque retired IGN's 10/10 John Wick: Chapter 4 review.

It’s a engaged clip for the cardinal dollar John Wick franchise. In summation to the 4 mainline films, the John Wick Universe, arsenic it’s called, includes 2 spinoff films (Ballerina, to beryllium released June 6, and a spinoff directed by and starring Donnie Yen reprising his Caine character, acceptable to commencement accumulation this summer).

In addition, Lionsgate Television produced The Continental: From the World of John Wick for Peacock and Amazon Prime, and Lionsgate confirmed it’s processing the bid John Wick: Under the High Table, which Stahelski and Keanu Reeves are enforcement producing.

Outside TV and films, Lionsgate precocious opened an immersive John Wick acquisition successful Las Vegas and has a John Wick AAA video crippled successful the works.

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