When Keanu Reeves first gunned his way back into the activity genre back in 2014 with John Wick , nobody knew it would become a series, but we did know we wanted more immediately. Fast-forwards seven years and Reeves' ultra-assassin is leading a full-on franchise three films deep, one that's effectively built out a mythology surrounding an undercover league of killers with their own rules, community, and guidelines. Just a few days after the third installment, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum , hit theaters, Lionsgate announced a fourth moving-picture show was already on the horizon, with Reeves back in the championship role, ace stuntman-turned-filmmaker Chad Stahelski returning to direct, and Mike Finch (Predators) taking over script duties. Although the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the release date back a year, nosotros're at present quickly coming up on the debut of John Wick: Chapter iv and the hype, as they say, is real.

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

When Is the 'John Wick: Affiliate 4' Release Appointment?

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John Wick: Affiliate 4 was originally gear up to striking theaters on May 21, 2021, merely because of the COVID-19 pandemic—as well every bit Reeves' scheduling conflicts with The Matrix: Resurrections —the premiere engagement was pushed back a twelvemonth to May 27, 2022. Correct now, that's where we are.

Who Is In the 'John Wick: Affiliate 4' Bandage?

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In addition to Reeves returning as the titular hitman, Stahalesky likewise recently confirmed Ian McShane would be returning for his fourth John Wick movie. "I couldn't be happier than to welcome Ian McShane dorsum to John Wick: Chapter 4," the manager said in a statement at the time. "He is not only an amazing actor but is an indispensable collaborator who has helped define the earth of John Wick."

Other familiar faces confirmed for the fourth entry are Lance Reddick and Laurence Fishburne. John Wick: Chapter 4 has also been chop-chop building an absolutely stacked crew of new cast members, including a trio of proven action badasses in Donnie Yen (Ip Homo), Scott Adkins (Ninja: Shadow of a Tear), and Marking Zaror (Machete Kills), alongside horror's scariest evil clown Bill Skarsgard (It), scene-stealing Japanese histrion 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 contempo chat with Collider, Yen especially stressed how great of a fourth dimension he's been having on the set of John Wick: Chapter 4:

"I have to take this opportunity [to bear witness] my utmost appreciation for both Chad and Keanu. They're lovely men. They're but gentleman, they've got big hearts. Keanu has a wonderful soul. Chad, also, a very practiced man. Very knowledgeable. People think he's simply a brilliant activity guy, he'south not. He understands film. He'southward a picture librarian. He knows what's going on. I'm just having the all-time time working with them than whatsoever of my previous Hollywood movies...[Reeves] is just not bad. He's more than I expected. The guy does everything himself. He put in the hours, he put in the piece of work. He can exercise information technology. He'southward no joke."

Skarsgard, also, noted how he came to the franchise equally a fan of the action genre and somewhen joined the film afterward hitting it off with Stahelski:

"I think the movies are very entertaining. I've always been a fan of these kinds of over-the-top, exploitive activeness movies...Chad [Stahelski] reached out to me and I met him a few times, and I really liked him. It was a really fun role. I'yard not gonna go into item [about] what information technology is, but it was a fun role and a fun world. I like the movies. I recall they're entertaining and information technology is something that I haven't actually done before. That's ever something that does inspire me, for whatever information technology is. It'south like, 'Okay, this is a project or genre or something that I haven't done, so let'south try it out and allow'south have fun within those genre constraints.' And then, I'm really looking forwards to it."

When and Where Is 'John Wick: Chapter 4' 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 person courtesy. John Wick: Chapter 4 is now in production," the text read. Shamier Anderson confirmed the production offset later that day with an image from fix.

Collider exclusively learned that production on John Wick: Chapter 4 would largely have the action out of New York City, with filming primarily taking place in Berlin and Paris before boosted photography takes place in Japan and New York. Additionally, we learned that Lionsgate'south original plan to shoot John Wick four and John Wick five back-to-back was put on hold due to the pandemic, and only John Wick 4 will be in the can past the end of the summer.

Who Are the Confirmed Characters in 'John Wick: Chapter 4'?

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Keanu Reeves will, evidently, be playing the title office of John Wick, an assassin who wears the hell out of a adapt and knows roughly 10,000 ways to make you be dead. McShane is reprising the function of Winston, owner of the New York Continental Hotel, who we last saw betraying John Wick with a bullet to the chest. Stahelski noted that he still thinks Winston's intentions are up for estimation. "He meant to shoot him," the managing director told THR. "Did he mean to kill him? That'south open for interpretation, you can have information technology one of two means, and that's kind of where we pick up some of the unanswered questions in John Wick 4."

Lance Reddick will reprise the role of Charon, the Continental'southward steely concierge, while Fishburne will in one case over again play the undercover assassin leader, The Bowery King. The exact details on whatsoever new characters take been pretty deficient and then far. Talking to Collider, Skarsgard said his part required no fight training merely 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 exist in the thick of it alongside Wick. Marko Zaror, a stuntman and martial creative person too as an actor, will reportedly be one of John Wick's "master adversaries" in the motion picture.

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

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While there isn't an official plot synopsis quite yet for John Wick: Affiliate 4, there'south a ton of info out there about what we tin expect. The motion-picture show volition pick up subsequently the explosive catastrophe to John Wick iii, which saw John completely separated from the assassin system known as The High Tabular array. The consortium'southward leadership believes John is dead–thanks to Winston shooting him off the roof of a building–but he's actually constitute himself injured and in the care of The Bowery King. Talking to Collider, Fishburne revealed that the upcoming film, like every entry earlier it, will strive to dig even deeper into the mythology and lore surrounding of this world.

"I read the script. It'due south really, really absurd. Equally much equally information technology's the aforementioned earth as the other three films, it's but deeper. Information technology's much deeper in terms of the code of the assassin and the relationship that he has with 1 character in particular...is actually the heart and soul of it."

In a recent interview with IndieWire, Stahelski was pretty adamant that no affair where John Wick: Chapter 4 is going, information technology will non accept a happy ending.

"John may survive all this shit, just at the cease of it, at that place'due south no happy ending. He'southward got nowhere to go. Honestly, I challenge you lot right now, here's a question to you: How exercise yous fucking want me to end it? Practise you lot call back he's going to ride off into the fucking sunset? He's killed 300 fucking people and he'due south merely going to [walk away], everything's okay? He'south simply going to fall in love with a love involvement? If y'all're this fucking guy, if this guy really exist[ed], how is this guy'south day going to terminate? He's fucked for the rest of his life. It's merely a matter of time."

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