‘John Wick’ Producer Confirms Your Emotional Funding Is Nugatory

through Lionsgate

The one purpose why anybody could be fully satisfied that the title hero actually did find yourself biting the mud on the finish of John Wick: Chapter 4 is as a result of Keanu Reeves turns 60 years previous subsequent yr, which is sort of frankly a ridiculous age to be placing your self via the wringer to the extent the motion motion has given his all to the franchise.

Faux-out deaths have been a black mark in opposition to IP-driven cinema for so long as anybody may bear in mind, and the infuriating addendum to the long-lasting hitman’s newest tour was solely made all of the extra nauseating when Lionsgate introduced mere days after Chapter 4 had annihilated the field workplace in its opening weekend that Chapter 5 was very a lot again on the desk.

There’s additionally going to be spin-offs aplenty, however anybody with half a mind may have informed you that there was at all times going to be an enormous demand to see Reeves return for not less than yet another journey, one thing producer Erica Lee was totally conscious of after she successfully rendered your emotional funding nugatory when admitting there’s extremely prone to be one other direct sequel to SlashFilm.

“For the final two films — there’s been a Japan launch for each of them that was a pair months later — everybody has had a while to relaxation and take into consideration what we’d do, what we may do. I feel all of us bear in mind how a lot we love one another and love these films. So yeah, I’m hopeful. Is the character of John Wick lifeless? Are there different variations? Are there completely different tales to inform? I feel so.”

At this level, the one approach to make issues actually definitive is for John Wick to have his head blown clear off his shoulders in full view of the viewers, as a result of that’s in regards to the one factor that’s going to make it abundantly clear that he received’t be again.