{"id":100916,"date":"2024-10-22T19:06:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T02:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=100916"},"modified":"2024-12-16T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:28:46","slug":"john-wick-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/10\/22\/john-wick-anime\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wick Anime Prequel Film Confirmed: John Wick&#8217;s Past &#8220;Impossible Task&#8221; to be Brought to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">John Wick&#8217;s co-creator Chad Stahelski confirmed that a John Wick anime prequel film is in development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/john-wick-co-creator-chad-stahelski-1236041550\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> on October 22, 2024, Stahelski revealed multiple projects and spinoffs were in the works for the John Wick franchise, including a TV show, a spinoff, and an anime feature film. Stahleski also talked about taking on the role of the main quality control for John Wick franchise on many of these upcoming projects, and also mentioned in the interview how Keanu Reaves is the first person he calls in his new oversight role, indicating the direction of oversight in the entire franchise moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We have three new things coming up: an anime feature, a TV show, a new spinoff [Donnie Yen\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]. So Keanu and I are still very active on all that, and we didn\u2019t want to get so big that we lost sight of what really makes John Wick, John Wick.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023 Movie) Official Trailer \u2013 Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qEVUtrk8_B4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">No details about the upcoming anime&#8217;s production have been confirmed, such as studio and production staff who will be involved in the project. What we do know from this interview is that the story centers around answering questions about John Wick&#8217;s past, including the &#8220;Impossible Task,&#8221; the events of which allowed John Wick to leave his old life in the underworld behind for love \u2013 at least until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6r0s41Ju5XA&amp;ab_channel=LionsgateMovies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one fateful night<\/a> brought the feared &#8220;Baba Yaga&#8221; back to the world of the Continental. This event has always been a mystery in the series and will be revealed during the story of this upcoming anime movie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The John Wick stars Keanu Reaves as the titular character <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <\/span> a feared and retired assassin brought back to the underworld for revenge. One fateful night has <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">created a franchise that features 4 mainline movies: <em>John Wick<\/em> (2014), <em>John Wick: Chapter 2<\/em> (2017), <em>John Wick: Chapter 3 <\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u2013 Parabellum<\/em> (2019) <em>John Wick Chapter 4<\/em> (2023), <\/span>and a spinoff television series, <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Continental: From the World of John Wick (2023).<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>The series is produced and distributed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsgate.com\/franchises\/john-wick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lionsgate<\/a>. A<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n upcoming spinoff movie, <em>From the World of John Wick: Ballerina is <\/em>scheduled for June 6, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Keanu Reaves is also <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/04\/15\/keanu-reeves-cast-as-shadow-in-sonic-the-hedgehog-3\/\">starring as Shadow<\/a> in the upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog 3 movie. While no cast announcements have been confirmed, it is currently expected that Keanu Reaves will return in the upcoming John Wick anime film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/john-wick-co-creator-chad-stahelski-1236041550\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on October 22, 2024, Stahelski revealed multiple projects and spinoffs were in the works for the John Wick franchise, including a TV show, a spinoff, and an anime feature film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":100917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,10],"tags":[14,10206,635],"class_list":["post-100916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-john-wick","tag-movie"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/John-Wick-1920-x-1080.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-qfG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100916"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100932,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100916\/revisions\/100932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}