John Wick 4’s director has 11 projects lined up — and isn’t sure which one’s next
With John Wick: Chapter 4 dominating the box office, this week’s general cultural conversation has largely turned to a single question: “Is John Wick dead?” The movie purposefully doesn’t answer that question, with writers Michael Finch and Shay Hatten telling Polygon that viewers are meant to interpret John Wick 4’s finale however they want.
Releasing studio Lionsgate has already given John Wick: Chapter 5 a green light for production, though, and Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Joe Drake recently told Deadline the studio is “not ready to say goodbye to Keanu with this franchise.” Given its success, there likely will be a John Wick 5, but series director Chad Stahelski tells Polygon he isn’t ready to commit to it as his next project — and that in fact, he hasn’t confirmed what his next project will be.
Stahelski currently has a whopping 11 different projects listed on IMDb.com as “in development” or “in pre-production.” Classified, for instance, is a thriller built around a vault of secret relics akin to the one seen at the end of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. New Line Cinema won an auction for that movie in 2021, with Stahelski attached to produce and direct under his 87Eleven Entertainment banner. He’s also signed on to a TV series called Vice City, produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, and envisioned as a gritty ’80s heist drama set in Miami in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal. (It’s unaffiliated with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.) And then there’s a planned reboot of the Highlander movie franchise, billed as starring former Superman Henry Cavill.
What’s Stahelski working on most actively right now, though? None of the above, he tells Polygon — he’s still coming down from John Wick 4 and waiting
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