John Wick’s Ballerina Spinoff Will Finally Take Stage With a Trailer

Lionsgate’s looking to proceed the John Wick franchise, and spinoffs are portion of that equation. It’s casual to forget, but there’s already 1 connected the mode successful the signifier of John Wick Presents: Ballerina. If you’re reasoning you’d similar to yet spot thing from that, bully news, pb histrion Ana de Armas says we’re not excessively acold disconnected from that happening.

At a caller interrogation with Collider astatine TIFF, de Armas revealed she’d been told the movie would beryllium getting its archetypal trailer “soon.” Having seen it herself, she was beauteous glowing astir it, adjacent arsenic she admitted to being people biased successful its favor. She went truthful acold arsenic to telephone the trailer “beautiful,” and she’s “very proud” of her enactment connected the movie overall. Talking broadly astir the movie, she teased it arsenic “really exciting. It’s dangerous, it’s sexy, it’s very John Wick. I deliberation radical are going to beryllium surprised.”

Directed by Len Wiseman of Underworld fame, Ballerina is acceptable betwixt the 3rd and 4th mainline films and centers connected Rooney, a ballerina-assassin connected the hunt for the radical who murdered her family. Along with returning franchise stars Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston and the precocious Lance Reddick (in 1 of his last appearances) successful their respective roles, the formed includes Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary) arsenic the main villain, Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Dune), Norman Reedus (Walking Dead), Catalina Sandino Moreno (From), and David Castañeda (Umbrella Academy).

Ballerina was primitively slated to travel retired backmost successful June, but got delayed for reshoots with assistance from shaper (and mothership franchise director) Chad Stahelski. After it popped up astatine CinemaCon 2024 this past April, it’s bully to cognize that we’ll yet get our archetypal look astatine the movie (and imaginable franchise starter) up of its June 6, 2025 release.

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