Filmmaker Chad Stahelski has teased that he already has ideas written down for up to five more “John Wick” sequels.
Speaking with Inverse, the helmer says whilst there’s officially no plans as yet for a full “John Wick 5” film as such, that hasn’t stopped him from taking down ideas for potential action sequences in future films. Stahelski says:
“I have notebooks and notebooks of shit behind me, John Wicks 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. We have ideas for days. We just don’t have the story locked. I have no interest in doing the cash grab of bringing John Wick back for something.
Is he a character I like? Of course. And if I did a couple of John Wick movies, great. Keanu would do one again in a second if we had a good story. We leave that open-ended. I know that the studio would love us to say we have another one.”
He adds the studio is “very enthusiastic and not just financially motivated, but they’re just interested in seeing what we could do with it.”
The comments come as the “John Wick” franchise is currently expanding with the spin-off prequel television series “The Continental” now on Peacock and the Ana de Armas-led spin-off “Ballerina” on the way to cinemas next June.
Meanwhile Charlotte Brändström, who directs some of “The Continental” series, spoke with Movieweb this week and says Stahelski has compared the “John Wick” franchise to “The Lord of the Rings” in the past:
“John Wick is a fantasy franchise. It’s a modern fantasy franchise. I even remember Chad [Stahelski] said in an interview that he loved John Wick because it was a modern-day Lord of the Rings. What I love about this kind of series is it is world-building. You build a parallel world and try to find the humanity and ground it.
What I loved about Tolkien is that it is a lot about humanity and species and days of old mythology, but you identify with the characters. I felt that was very important in this series [‘The Continental’] was to get into the characters.”
All three episodes of “The Continental” are now available to watch on Peacock and Amazon Prime Video depending upon your location.
