Lionsgate is going all in on the John Wick franchise. They’re expanding their output on the series with a new TV show titled John Wick: Under The High Table which is a sequel to John Wick 4. Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski are executive producing the series and Stahelski is set to direct the pilot episode. Deadline was the first with the news.
The show is written by The Old Man creator Robert Levine. The story here picks up directly after the end of John Wick: Chapter 4. For those who haven’t seen the fourth Wick movie, there might be spoilers ahead.
John Wick has left the world of the High Table in a tenuous position and a collection of new characters will look to make a name for themselves while some of the franchise stalwart characters remain committed to the old-world order.
Lionsgate is promising to “combine new and old and thrust the Wick universe into a new age.” with the new series. They did something similar with the launch of The Continental: From The World Of John Wick in 2023, which was one of Peacock’s biggest original launches of 2023.
As for Keanu Reeves, he’s currently attached as an executive producer with no acting component. He’s said to be very hands-on with the project. It’s sure to get plenty of bids in a competitive situation to see where the series lands.
In John Wick 4, John and fellow assassin Caine (Donnie Yen) earn their freedom from the High Table and Winston (Ian McShane) gets reinstatement of Hotel Manager of the rebuilt New York Continental after John (Reeves) kills High Table’s the Marquis (Bill Skarsgård) but is left gravely injured. The ending is left ambiguous, with John presumed — but not confirmed — dead, with a post-credits scene teasing a confrontation between Caine and Akira (Rina Sawayama). She attacks him with a knife after Caine earlier in the movie killed her father, Shimazu Koji (Hiroyuki Sanada) while sparing her.
That’s not all from the John Wick-franchise though. We’ve got the film Ballerina, which is set between the third and fourth film, and follows Ana de Armas’s character. There’s also a feature film about Cain, Donnie Yen’s character from the fourth film. Finally, Lionsgate still has a fifth John Wick film in development and this new series shouldn’t interfere with plans for that film.
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Source: Deadline
