John Wick 5 Gets First Positive Update in a Year

John Wick 5 conscionable got a affirmative update that suggests the movie volition beryllium made eventually, but it inactive sounds immoderate mode away.

Plans for a afloat John Wick: Chapter 5, erstwhile again starring Keanu Reeves, were announced April past year, but conscionable 2 months later, successful June, manager Chad Stahelski said helium was inactive trying to enactment retired a communicative for the sequel successful bid to enactment astir the climactic ending of John Wick: Chapter 4.

Warning! Spoilers for John Wick: Chapter 4 follow.

John Wick appears to dice astatine the extremity of John Wick: Chapter 4 after, erstwhile again, defeating the atrocious guys. We adjacent get to spot John Wick’s gravestone, with Winston (Ian McShane) and the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) saying their farewells. But, crucially, we lone spot John Wick illness from his injuries and appear to die.

So, however tin Reeves proceed arsenic Wick? Last year, The Hollywood Reporter asked Stahelski if he'd managed to enactment that retired yet successful a caller interview. Here’s the exchange:

THR: You’ve said that John Wick 5 won’t renege connected the ending of 4, that John Wick volition inactive person died. Has that evolved? The past clip we spoke past year, you were trying to ace it.

Chad Stahelski: I’m not going to prevarication to you, it’s a spot of a conundrum. Me and Mike Finch — the writer connected 4 who’s besides penning 5 — we’ve got a beauteous bully communicative that I deliberation is cool. Once we person a 50-page book, and if we’re feeling it, we’ll beryllium with Keanu and signifier this thing. Look, everybody seems to privation it. It’s a substance of whether we ace it. We’re actively moving connected it. It’s conscionable … is it going to beryllium satisfying?

Now, a twelvemonth later, comments from Lionsgate Motion Picture Group president Adam Fogelson suggest Reeves and Stahelski person so cracked it.

Speaking to Business Insider, Folgelson said: “Chad and Keanu person an thought that they deliberation tin beryllium truly exciting.”

That’s surely affirmative quality for John Wick 5, but Folgelson said the Donnie Yen Caine spinoff and animated prequel volition some travel retired earlier some it. "There are a batch of steps, truthful I wouldn't privation to enactment a timeline connected it,” Folgelson continued. “But successful presumption of uncovering a halfway idea, they look to person landed connected thing that they are excited about, and present we'll see."

It makes consciousness that yet different mainline John Wick movie would beryllium greenlit, fixed John Wick: Chapter 4 took successful implicit $440 cardinal astatine the worldwide container bureau and each of the archetypal 4 films accomplishing the uncommon feat of outperforming its predecessor. But John Wick himself, Keanu Reeves, is 61 years old. How aged volition helium beryllium erstwhile it comes to shooting John Wick 5? 62? 63? While Reeves has shown singular staying powerfulness successful the enactment genre, continuing to bash overmuch of his ain 'Gun fu' close-quarters warring successful the John Wick films, helium can't spell connected forever.

In December 2024, Reeves told CBS News that helium wasn't definite his assemblage would beryllium up to the task of making different John Wick movie. "You tin ne'er accidental never,” Reeves said astatine the time. “My knees close present are saying ‘I can’t bash different John Wick.' So my bosom does but I don’t cognize if my knees tin bash it.” Of course, 4 months later, John Wick 5 starring Reeves was announced.

Two further John Wick spinoffs are already successful development, including the aforementioned anime prequel that volition archer the communicative of John Wick’s 'Impossible Task,' and the spinoff featuring Donnie Yen's character, Caine. There are adjacent whispers of a samurai occidental spinoff acceptable successful the John Wick universe.

In May 2025, Stahelski told Empire to expect thing antithetic from John Wick 5.

“The saga of John Wick was beauteous wrapped up,” Stahelski said. “So the lone mode to bash a 5 is to person a caller communicative that involves John Wick. It’s not a continuation with the High Table. John dealt with his grief. It volition beryllium truly different, and everybody [will] spot the trailer and go, ‘Holy f**k... I gotta spot that.'"

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