Until now, he had been cautious when talking about a potential fifth part of John Wick. Although in the minds of Chad Stahelski and Keanu Reeves the fourth installment was raised as an end, the idea of looking for a formula to continue the main branch of the saga was on the production company’s table, especially taking into account the spectacular numbers that it is throwing in the cinema (425 million dollars for a movie with a 100 million budget, good business). That is why in a meeting with shareholders, Joe Drake could not avoid taking the bull by the horns and openly confirmed that there are early plans for a fifthwhich join the “AAA video game”, which had been playing since last year and the projects of The Continental and Ballerina.
“Now we are expanding into that franchise, not only in the AAA video game space, but also looking at what the regularity of the spin-offs should be, with television expanding that universe so that there is a constant flow that has clear interest. from the public,” Drake explained. “What is official is that, as you know, Ballerina is the first spin-off to be released next year. We are developing three others, including (John Wick 5) and a television series, The Continental, which will air soon. So we’re expanding the world and when that fifth movie comes around, it’s going to unfold organically, based on how we’re starting to tell those stories. But they can count on a regularity in the John Wick saga.”
Expanding a multi-million dollar franchise, born unexpectedly from a low-budget movie that no one expected much of. And to do it in a way that remains attractive, that does not break or become a parody, especially considering how linked the tetralogy is to the figure of its director and main actor. Quite a challenge, but it is clear that numbers force Lionsgate to try. Surely the reception of The Continental and Ballerina will influence the decisions on how to develop that sought-after regularity.
