Warning: SPOILERS forward for John Wick: Chapter 4.John Wick: Chapter 4 producer Erica Lee has detailed how cameos from John Wick characters in Ballerina will match into the upcoming movie. A by-product set between the occasions of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and John Wick: Chapter 4, Ballerina will see Ana de Armas tackle the function of Rooney, a ballerina murderer within the Ruska Roma Faculty looking down the individuals who murdered her household. The film is ready to function cameo appearances from a number of characters inside the flagship John Wick sequence, together with Keanu Reeves as John himself.
Talking with Collider, Lee explains how the John Wick universe cameos in Ballerina will play into the spinoff movie. She teased that Wick’s specifically can be an prolonged cameo, hinting at him having a decently-sized function within the film. Try what Lee needed to say under:
Ian has somewhat bit extra to do, and John Wick is an prolonged cameo. He shot for a couple of week. Lance shot for a day. These had been final minute provides in a method, too. How will we merge the worlds a bit extra, so there is a little bit of extra of name continuity? As a result of clearly, she’s a ballerina within the Ruska Roma Faculty, in order that was having Anjelica [Huston] as The Director was all the time an natural method in, and she or he all the time did verify right into a Continental. However then it was enjoyable to have Ian and Lance come. I did not know if Keanu was going to do the film. I feel we had all the time hoped he would. Then the timeline factor turned a factor as a result of we had been nonetheless in publish on ‘John Wick 4,’ and it was like, is he lifeless? Is he not? Is he lifeless? Yeah, let’s do that, so it is smart chronologically and offers us a minute to determine all of it out.
How John Wick Cameos Can Match Into Ballerina’s Story
Lee’s description of the John Wick cameos anticipated in Ballerina point out they are going to be there with the intention to totally set up the movie within the John Wick universe. Whereas the late Lance Reddick’s Charon and Ian McShane’s Winston will not be within the movie for lengthy, their presence signifies Rooney will go to the Continental in some unspecified time in the future in the course of the film. Their presence can even assist fill within the gaps as to what the pair had been as much as earlier than the occasions of John Wick: Chapter 4.
Reeves’ return as John Wick will possible be emotional because of the character’s loss of life on the finish of John Wick: Chapter 4. With John having been skilled by the Ruska Roma when he was youthful, his prolonged cameo can even provide some clues as to how his previous with them performed out. These concepts can then be associated to Rooney, her upbringing, and her mission, showcasing a passing of the torch of kinds as she units out on her personal quest for revenge.
Huston’s return as The Director hints at her having an vital function in Ballerina, however the small quantity of accessible data means what she does within the movie can be nothing however hypothesis for now. Maybe The Director’s pledge of fealty to the Excessive Desk following the Adjudicator’s go to in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum will tie into Rooney’s determination to seek out the individuals who murdered her household. Whereas all of the upcoming cameos stay shrouded in some degree of thriller, Ballerina will nonetheless function sufficient John Wick characters to firmly plant it into the universe.
Supply: Collider