Don’t Hold Your Breath for John Wick 5

In each palmy container bureau franchise, determination comes a infinitesimal of decision that feels satisfying to astir each involved—that is, until producers pocket-watching said film’s container bureau occurrence travel knocking, asking, “What are next?” Take, for example, Keanu Reeves’ career-reviving enactment bid John Wick. Although the series’ hype is astatine an all-time high, its co-creator is firmly against allowing a imaginable 5th movie to diminish the ending of John Wick: Chapter 4.

In a caller interrogation with the Hollywood Reporter, bid co-creator Chad Stahelski reiterated that fans should temper their expectations of seeing Reeves instrumentality successful a 5th movie successful the franchise. His reasoning? John Wick’s communicative is over. Bookended, even. What’s more, Stahelski (rightfully) believes Wick’s ending was truthful poignant that continuing the franchise by bringing him backmost would cheapen the film’s picture-perfect nonstop off. For Stahelski, the thought of a 5th movie serves much arsenic a originative workout than a genuine creator pursuit.

“The honorable information is you don’t [top John Wick: Chapter 4]. You simply don’t. There’s nary topping what we did. That’s the end. That’s the deal. That’s what we recovered closure for. Look, sometimes, we’ll support things successful development. Sometimes, we’ll usage improvement arsenic an exercise, but is determination an accidental to bash [John Wick 5]? Of course, determination is, whether it’s for wealth oregon for creativity,” Stahelski told THR. “Jesus, successful the past 3 years, I’ve already had 3 oregon 4 versions of a John Wick 5. They were antithetic ways to ace the story, but it’s astir a intelligence workout for me.”

Although Stahelski has spun communicative yarn implicit wherever helium could instrumentality the franchise next, he’s beauteous comfy successful saying wherever the numbered continuation goes, it won’t travel immoderate constituent of John’s communicative arc.

“It would not beryllium portion of that [John Wick: Chapter 4] storyline. It would not beryllium what you would deliberation it is. As acold arsenic [John Wick: Chapter 4], we’ve peaked. At slightest I have. That’s my apex. We ended it. It’s a implicit story,” Stahelski continued. “I ticker it now, and I consciousness precise blessed astir it, but we wouldn’t effort to outdo it. We wouldn’t effort to adhd connected to that. It’d person to beryllium a wholly antithetic storyline.”

Now that Stahelski has made it irrefutably wide that helium doesn’t program connected pulling a Deadpool & Wolverine by bringing the Baba Yaga back, determination are immoderate John Wick projects coming down the pipeline that anticipation to grow its mythos. Aside from the prequel tv amusement The Continental, fans tin look guardant to Ana de Armas staring successful the clunkily titled John Wick Presents: Ballerina.

Beyond Ballerina‘s June 6, 2025 merchandise date, fans tin look guardant to a prequel anime featurette that’ll showcase John Wick completing the “impossible task” that fto him discontinue from declaration sidesplitting (for a time). There’s besides a spin-off bid successful improvement by Robert Levine called Under the High Table that volition travel the series’ supporting characters.  A spin-off for Donnie Yen’s Caine is besides being written. So yeah, there’s a batch much Wickverse worldly successful store.

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