John Wick: Chapter 4 (March 24th 2023)

[The Spelunker!]

What a banger. It’s soooooo good. So many quality
Fight scenes. So many innovative shots. Just so much better than the 3rd.

[Evil Homer]

Saw it on Saturday, then went back and saw it again on Sunday. An absolute masterpiece, one of the rare franchises that improves with each sequel.

[Scoops]

"I don't know, this is okay but it really feels like this series is treading water"

*Paris fight scene happens*

"Forgive me my grace, I lacked faith in your divinity".

[Glitch]

So if you are banned from FAN, does that make you excommunicado?

[Clutchhausen]

That was INCREDIBLE!!!

[ace]

Loved this. There was definitely a few moments where I thought it was too long…but they’d follow it up with one of the best sequences I’ve ever seen and that feeling faded. They did that like four times.

[y4j1981]

John Wick 5 (plus more) confirmed?:

www.ign.com/articles/john-wick-5-early-development

John Wick 5: Lionsgate Exec Confirms It's in Early Development

Fans "can rely on a regular cadence of John Wick" moving forward.

After some back and forth on the future of John Wick, Lionsgate confirmed it's planning to continue the mainline series with a fifth film currently "in development."

Speaking on the franchise's future during Lionsgate's most recent earnings call, the company's motion picture group chair, Joe Drake, said: "What is official is that, as you know, Ballerina is the first spinoff that comes out next year. We're in development on three others, including [John Wick 5] and including television series The Continental.

"And so, we're building out the world and when that [fifth] movie comes, [it] will be organic — will be organically grown out of how we're starting to tell those stories. But you can rely on a regular cadence of John Wick."

John Wick 5 was originally going to be shot back to back with John Wick: Chapter 4. However, when those plans changed, the future of the mainline film series became uncertain. Now, following the box office success of John Wick 4, Lionsgate has officially pushed it into early development.

The news comes two months after Lionsgate said it was considering John Wick 5 and two weeks after producer Basil Iwanyk said the future of the franchise would be determined by star Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski over a bottle of whiskey in Japan.

As for the spinoffs Drake mentioned: The Continental, a three-part prequel series starring Mel Gibson, will debut first in September on Peacock. Ballerina, a feature-film spinoff starring Ana de Armas's Ruska Roma, is then scheduled to hit theaters on June 7, 2024. Halle Berry has also hinted that her character, Sofia Al-Azwar, may star in a spinoff movie, though that remains unofficial.

[Zone Was Wrong]

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{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}Doesn't John die in 4? How can there be a 5? Cyborg-John Wick? I'm all for it.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Watched this last night. It looks absolutely gorgeous, with stunning set design and fantastic use of the camera within each space, while the fight choreography is inventive and fun, and Donnie Yen continues to be a goddamn legend. My only criticisms are just how long some of those fights go on for,

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{Spoiler}and Hollywood continues to cast Hiroyuki Sanada in movies only to kill his character off. He's the Japanese Sean Bean at this point.

May 26, 2023 17:19:12 GMT -5 Zone Was Wrong said:

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{Spoiler}Doesn't John die in 4? How can there be a 5? Cyborg-John Wick? I'm all for it.

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{Spoiler}The scene between Winston and the Bowery King at John's graveside not-so-subtly hints that they helped him fake his death. His commitments to the High Table may be satisfied, but there's plenty of people out there who'd still like John Wick put in the ground for real. As the elder says at the start of the movie, "The only way John Wick will ever know peace is in death."