John Wick Anime Film Prequel Will Tell the Story of John Wick’s Impossible Task, Keanu Reeves to Voice Character

The John Wick anime prequel movie yet has a confirmed setting.

Announced during CinemaCon, the animated movie volition spot Keanu Reeves instrumentality to dependable his character. This is successful summation to Reeves’ just-confirmed instrumentality to the relation successful live-action signifier for John Wick 5.

The animated movie prequel volition archer the communicative of John Wick’s legendary ‘Impossible Task,’ which is referenced successful the movies arsenic helping to make the mythos — and dread — surrounding Wick’s character.

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

The animated movie volition spell backmost successful clip to archer the communicative of John Wick earlier the archetypal film, arsenic helium completes the Impossible Task — the sidesplitting of each of his rivals successful 1 nighttime — successful bid to escaped himself from his work to the High Table and gain the close to beryllium with the emotion of his life, Helen.Like the live-action diagnostic films, the animated movie volition present the highly stylized and defined enactment that John Wick fans expect and volition beryllium aimed astatine much mature audiences.

It volition beryllium produced by the John Wick producing squad of Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, 87Eleven Entertainment’s Chad Stahelski, and Keanu Reeves. 87Eleven Entertainment’s Alex Young and Jason Spitz volition enforcement produce.

The movie volition beryllium directed by Shannon Tindle, an animation seasoned who astir precocious co-wrote and directed the Annie-nominated Netflix movie Ultraman: Rising. Tindle besides created the treble Oscar nominee Kubo and the Two Strings and served arsenic enforcement producer/showrunner connected the Emmy-winning bid Lost Ollie. The movie volition beryllium written by Vanessa Taylor, writer and co-executive shaper of Game of Thrones, writer of Divergent, and an Oscar nominee for her enactment with Guillermo del Toro connected the Best Picture victor The Shape of Water.

Adam Fogelson, seat of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, said: “In some animation and the satellite of John Wick, the possibilities are endless. And determination is nary John Wick communicative fans are clamoring for much than the Impossible Task. Shannon’s instrumentality connected that communicative is an unthinkable one, and we are beyond excited to spot what John Wick tin bash successful animation.”

Stahelski added: “I’ve ever been fascinated with anime. It has ever been a immense power connected me, particularly with the John Wick series. To person the accidental to make a John Wick anime seems to beryllium the cleanable progression for the John Wick world. I consciousness John Wick is the cleanable spot for this mean — anime holds the imaginable to grow our world, our characters, and our enactment successful ways unimaginable before.”

It’s a massively engaged clip for the cardinal dollar John Wick franchise. In summation to the already released 4 mainline films and the just-announced John Wick 5, the John Wick Universe 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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