When Keanu Reeves get-go gunned his mode dorsum into the action genre back in 2022 with John Wick , nobody knew it would get a series, but we did know we wanted more immediately. Fast-forwards 7 years and Reeves' ultra-assassin is leading a full-on franchise three films deep, one that's effectively built out a mythology surrounding an underground league of killers with their own rules, customs, and guidelines. Just a few days later on the third installment, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum , hitting theaters, Lionsgate announced a 4th pic was already on the horizon, with Reeves dorsum in the title role, ace stuntman-turned-filmmaker Chad Stahelski returning to direct, and Mike Finch (Predators) taking over script duties. Although the COVID-xix pandemic pushed the release date back a year, nosotros're now chop-chop coming up on the debut of John Wick: Chapter iv and the hype, every bit they say, is existent.

Below, yous'll find everything y'all need to know nigh John Wick: Affiliate four, from its release date, to where it's currently filming, to all those new cast members, and more.

When Is the 'John Wick: Chapter 4' Release Date?

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John Wick: Chapter four was originally set to hit theaters on May 21, 2021, simply because of the COVID-19 pandemic—equally well as Reeves' scheduling conflicts with The Matrix: Resurrections —the premiere engagement was pushed back a year to May 27, 2022. Right now, that's where we are.

Who Is In the 'John Wick: Chapter 4' Cast?

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In improver to Reeves returning as the titular hitman, Stahalesky also recently confirmed Ian McShane would be returning for his quaternary John Wick motion picture. "I couldn't be happier than to welcome Ian McShane dorsum to John Wick: Affiliate 4," the director said in a statement at the time. "He is non simply an amazing actor but is an indispensable collaborator who has helped define the world of John Wick."

Other familiar faces confirmed for the fourth entry are Lance Reddick and Laurence Fishburne. John Wick: Chapter four has also been chop-chop edifice an absolutely stacked crew of new bandage members, including a trio of proven activity badasses in Donnie Yen (Ip Man), Scott Adkins (Ninja: Shadow of a Tear), and Marking Zaror (Machete Kills), alongside horror's scariest evil clown Nib Skarsgard (It), scene-stealing Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada (Mortal Kombat), Wynonna Earp favorite Shamier Anderson, Japanese-British singer-songwriter Rina Sawayama in her motion-picture show debut, and the goddamn Kurgan himself, Clancy Brown.

In a recent conversation with Collider, Yen especially stressed how great of a time he's been having on the set up of John Wick: Chapter 4:

"I accept to accept this opportunity [to show] my utmost appreciation for both Chad and Keanu. They're lovely men. They're just gentleman, they've got big hearts. Keanu has a wonderful soul. Republic of chad, also, a very good human being. Very knowledgeable. People think he'southward just a bright action guy, he's not. He understands motion-picture show. He'due south a film librarian. He knows what's going on. I'm just having the best time working with them than any of my previous Hollywood movies...[Reeves] is simply great. He's more than I expected. The guy does everything himself. He put in the hours, he put in the work. He can practice it. He's no joke."

Skarsgard, too, noted how he came to the franchise as a fan of the action genre and somewhen joined the moving picture subsequently striking it off with Stahelski:

"I remember the movies are very entertaining. I've always been a fan of these kinds of over-the-top, exploitive action movies...Republic of chad [Stahelski] reached out to me and I met him a few times, and I really liked him. Information technology was a really fun role. I'm non gonna become into detail [well-nigh] what information technology is, only it was a fun role and a fun world. I like the movies. I think they're entertaining and it is something that I haven't really done earlier. That's always something that does inspire me, for whatever it is. It'due south like, 'Okay, this is a project or genre or something that I oasis't done, and then let's try it out and allow's have fun inside those genre constraints.' And so, I'thousand really looking forward to information technology."

When and Where Is 'John Wick: Chapter four' Filming?

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Back in June 2021, a text sent out to subscribers confirmed John Wick: Chapter 4 had started rolling cameras. "It's begun. Consider this a professional courtesy. John Wick: Chapter 4 is now in product," the text read. Shamier Anderson confirmed the product start later that day with an image from set.

Collider exclusively learned that production on John Wick: Chapter 4 would largely take the activity out of New York Metropolis, with filming primarily taking place in Berlin and Paris earlier additional photography takes place in Japan and New York. Additionally, nosotros learned that Lionsgate'due south original programme to shoot John Wick iv and John Wick 5 back-to-dorsum was put on agree due to the pandemic, and only John Wick 4 will be in the tin can past the end of the summer.

Who Are the Confirmed Characters in 'John Wick: Chapter iv'?

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Keanu Reeves will, plainly, be playing the title role of John Wick, an assassinator who wears the hell out of a suit and knows roughly 10,000 ways to make you be dead. McShane is reprising the role of Winston, owner of the New York Continental Hotel, who we concluding saw betraying John Wick with a bullet to the chest. Stahelski noted that he yet thinks Winston's intentions are upwards for interpretation. "He meant to shoot him," the director told THR. "Did he hateful to impale him? That's open up for estimation, you can take it 1 of ii ways, and that'south kind of where we option upwards some of the unanswered questions in John Wick 4."

Lance Reddick will reprise the function of Charon, the Continental's steely concierge, while Fishburne will once once more play the underground assassin leader, The Bowery Male monarch. The exact details on whatsoever new characters have been pretty deficient so far. Talking to Collider, Skarsgard said his role required no fight training but is "something different." Shamier Anderson, on the other hand, has been posting a lot of behind-the-scenes looks at his intensive gun training, hinting that whoever his character might be, he'll be in the thick of it alongside Wick. Marko Zaror, a stuntman and martial creative person as well as an player, will reportedly exist 1 of John Wick's "master adversaries" in the film.

What Is the 'John Wick: Chapter iv' Plot?

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While at that place isn't an official plot synopsis quite yet for John Wick: Affiliate 4, there's a ton of info out at that place most what nosotros tin can expect. The film will pick up after the explosive ending to John Wick iii, which saw John completely separated from the assassinator organization known as The High Table. The consortium'southward leadership believes John is dead–cheers to Winston shooting him off the roof of a building–but he's really found himself injured and in the care of The Bowery King. Talking to Collider, Fishburne revealed that the upcoming flick, similar every entry earlier it, volition strive to dig fifty-fifty deeper into the mythology and lore surrounding of this world.

"I read the script. It's really, really cool. As much equally it's the same globe equally the other three films, it'south just deeper. It's much deeper in terms of the code of the assassin and the relationship that he has with one grapheme in detail...is really the eye and soul of it."

In a contempo interview with IndieWire, Stahelski was pretty adamant that no thing where John Wick: Chapter four is going, it will not take a happy ending.

"John may survive all this shit, but at the end of it, in that location's no happy ending. He's got nowhere to go. Honestly, I challenge y'all right now, here's a question to you: How do you fucking want me to stop information technology? Do y'all retrieve he's going to ride off into the fucking sunset? He's killed 300 fucking people and he'southward just going to [walk away], everything's okay? He'due south only going to autumn in love with a honey interest? If you're this fucking guy, if this guy really exist[ed], how is this guy'southward twenty-four hour period going to end? He's fucked for the remainder of his life. Information technology'due south just a matter of fourth dimension."

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