Keanu Reeves is coming back for John Wick 5

Though John Wick decidedly seemed dormant by the extremity of his past precocious stakes adventure, that nary longer appears to beryllium the case.

During its presumption astatine this year’s CinemaCon, Lionsgate announced that it has greenlit accumulation connected yet different John Wick feature that volition spot Keanu Reeves instrumentality to reprise his relation arsenic the Baba Yaga. Though Lionsgate has not yet shared immoderate crippled details oregon different casting announcements, longtime John Wick director / shaper Chad Stahelski, and producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee are attached to the project.

Speaking astatine CinemaCon astir the film, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group caput Adam Fogelson assured attendees that Reeves, Stahelski, Iwanyk, and Lee wouldn’t signed connected “unless they had thing genuinely phenomenal and caller to accidental with these characters and this world,” according to IGN.

In summation to a caller live-action movie centering John Wick successful the present, the larger John Wick brand volition proceed to turn with an animated prequel starring Reeves that tells the communicative of however helium erstwhile completed the “impossible task” (the franchise’s terminology for sidesplitting each of one’s rivals successful a azygous night.) The animated task volition beryllium directed by Shannon Tindle (Ultraman: Rising) and written by Vanessa Taylot (Game of Thrones, The Shape of Water.)

Lionsgate has besides tapped Donnie Yen to some prima successful and nonstop a live-action spinoff built astir the unsighted assassin quality Caine, who archetypal appeared successful John Wick: Chapter 4.

Given the mode John Wick has been featured successful the trailers for Ballerina, it’s not wholly astonishing to larn that reports of the character’s decease were a spot exaggerated. But with Reeves returning to header different John Wick mainline film, its adjacent much wide present that Lionsgate intends to support Wick’s communicative going arsenic agelong arsenic it perchance can.