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The John Wick movies are jam-packed with memorable characters, and 1 of the astir well-received by fans truthful acold has been ballerina assassin Rooney. After the quality made her debut successful John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum, Rooney is going to get her ain spinoff movie successful 2024, fittingly titled Ballerina. The movie volition people the debut for critically-acclaimed actress Ana De Armas and is definite to beryllium a deed with fans of the archetypal series, giving her quality overmuch much backstory. It’s not the lone spinoff successful the works. A TV bid called The Continental is besides expected to debut successful the adjacent future, arsenic good as John Wick 5.
HollywoodLife has compiled each the details you request to cognize astir the upcoming movie, including what to expect earlier it hits the large surface successful 2024. Keep speechmaking to larn much astir the Ana De Armas-starring film.
Ana volition prima arsenic Rooney successful the upcoming enactment movie. (Shutterstock)
‘Ballerina’ Release Date
Ballerina has been a task that’s agelong been successful development, since 2017. It was primitively written arsenic it’s ain film, earlier becoming portion of the John Wick series. While it’s been a enactment successful advancement for astir six years, Lionsgate announced that it’ll yet deed theaters connected June 7, 2024, according to Variety.
Cast & Crew
While the movie volition diagnostic immoderate caller faces, galore of the formed members of Ballerina will beryllium precise acquainted to diehard fans of John Wick. Of course, Keanu Reeves is expected to marque an quality arsenic the Baba Yaga himself. Anjelica Huston’s “The Director” is expected to play prominently successful the film. Ian McShane and the precocious Lance Reddick are besides expected to look arsenic their characters Winston Scott and Charon, respectively. The movie volition beryllium 1 of Lance’s last posthumous movie roles, aft his decease from heart disease successful March 2023.
As you could astir apt guess, Ana de Armas volition instrumentality connected the rubric relation of Rooney, but it’s really her debut successful the John Wick franchise. The ballerina assassin had antecedently appeared successful the 3rd John Wick film, but the quality was played by ballerina Unity Phelan.
Ana is making her ‘John Wick’ debut successful the spinoff film. (Shutterstock)
Besides Ana, determination are a fewer much newcomers whose roles person not been divulged conscionable yet! Norman Reedus, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Gabriel Byrne all person been formed successful the film, but their characters person not yet been revealed, per IMDb.
Behind the camera, Len Wiseman is acceptable to direct. He’s antecedently served arsenic shaper connected large blockbusters like Total Recall and a fig of the Underworld films. He besides directed the first Underworld in 2003 and a fewer antithetic episodes of TV. As a writer, helium created the TV series Sleepy Hollow and the Underworld series.
The publication was primitively written by Shay Hatten, who besides wrote John Wick: Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. Some of his different credits see the enactment comedy Day Shift and Army of Thieves, which was co-written with Zack Snyder.
Plot
While determination are inactive galore details of the crippled to Ballerina that are expected to beryllium released, the basal communicative is that a pistillate assassin sets retired to get revenge connected the radical who killed her household members. It besides reportedly takes spot betwixt the 3rd and fourth John Wick films. The caller movie is expected to springiness immoderate caller details astir the mysterious Ruska Roma family, which John was raised successful and trained to go an assassin.
While galore details are sparse, Keanu revealed that the movie volition travel a pistillate seeking “revenge” successful an quality astatine Comic-Con successful 2022. “Someone killed her father. Who could that be? And truthful it’s her travel for really knowing her past. She mislaid her begetter astatine a young age, and she doesn’t truly cognize what happened. Only that idiosyncratic came into the location and killed her father, who had a tattoo. And arsenic we cognize in John Wick, if you person a tattoo, something’s going on,” helium said, per Collider.
The movie reportedly takes spot betwixt ‘John Wick 3’ and ‘4.’ (Shutterstock)
Shay besides revealed that the caller movie volition besides shed airy connected immoderate details from John Wick’s past successful a March 2023 interrogation with Screen Rant. “I deliberation successful Ballerina you’ll get to spot immoderate of the hints of what John experienced during his origins successful that place, but done the eyes of a antithetic character. It inactive solves immoderate of the answers of Wick, conscionable done the eyes of a caller character,” the screenwriter said.
Behind The Scenes
As mentioned above, the publication was primitively written arsenic its ain film, earlier retro-fitted for John Wick. Lionsgate purchased the task successful July 2017, per The Hollywood Reporter. Len was brought connected to nonstop successful October 2019, per Deadline. After it was bought, immoderate breadcrumbs were placed successful the third John Wick movie. Shay opened up astir immoderate of the archetypal details successful his spec successful the above-mentioned Screen Rant interview. “The archetypal publication was acceptable into Swiss Alps, which is territory that the John Wick movies person not touched. So, I deliberation successful a large way, it meant that we could benignant of instrumentality to the archetypal communicative of that publication from Ballerina without stepping connected the toes of John Wick,” helium said.
While Unity Phelan originated the relation in John Wick 3, Ana was announced arsenic the starring woman for the movie successful a CinemaCon sheet successful April 2022, per Comic Book. It was besides announced that Marco Beltrami (who scored Scream, A Quiet Place, and more) was teaming up with Anna Drubich (who scored Barbarian and more) to constitute the film’s music, per Film Music Reporter.
The movie reportedly started filming successful Prague successful November 2022, according to The Prague Reporter. The movie is reportedly successful post-production, according to IMDb.
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