Keanu Reeves' Return As John Wick In 2025 Is More Worrying Than John Wick 5 Happening
John Wick's Ballerina cameo is a big risk
John Wick 5 would be a huge risk after the last movie ended the story so perfectly, but Keanu Reevesā upcoming John Wick appearance in 2025 will be even riskier. After years of delays due to rewrites, reshoots, and retooling, From the World of John Wick: Ballerina is set to finally arrive in theaters on June 6, 2025. Ballerina is the first official spinoff movie in the John Wick franchise. Ana de Armas stars as Eve Macarro, a ballerina-turned-assassin trained by the Ruska Roma (first seen in John Wick: Chapter 3 ā Parabellum).
Ballerina isnāt just connected to the previous John Wick movies through the tenuous link of a league of assassins posing as a ballet company; itāll also feature some familiar faces from the mainline series. Anjelica Huston will reprise her role as āThe Director,ā the mysterious head of the Ruska Roma; Lance Reddick will make a posthumous appearance as Charon, the concierge of the New York Continental; and Ian McShane will return as Winston Scott, the owner of the hotel. And as if that wasnāt enough, itās also been confirmed that Wick himself will appear in the Ballerina cast.
John Wick's Cameo In Ballerina Could Go Wrong In Many WaysJohn's Ballerina Role Is Still Being Tampered WithFrom a commercial perspective, it makes sense to include John himself in Ballerina. As the title would suggest, that character is the main draw of the John Wick franchise. Merely setting Ballerina in the same universe as John Wick might not have been enough to entice audiences to come out to theaters, but the promise of seeing John himself back in action on the big screen might seal the deal. But from a creative standpoint, there are so many ways this cameo could go wrong ā and so few ways it could go right.
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John could steal the spotlight from Eve and overshadow her in her own movie. If Johnās scene is all anyone is talking about on the filmās opening weekend, then itāll have failed to tell a worthy story of its own. And even if thatās not the case and Johnās cameo complements Eveās journey instead of distracting from it, the cameo could still feel out of place or gratuitous. Itāll be tricky to come up with an organic reason for John to cross paths with the new protagonist, especially since heās in hiding at this point in the John Wick timeline.
Ballerina is being directed by Live Free or Die Hard's Len Wiseman.
The most worrying thing about Johnās cameo in Ballerina is that the producers still havenāt figured out how to make it work. According to producer Erica Lee, Ballerinaās filmmakers are still tampering with Reevesā role in the movie. Lee admitted that theyāre āstill working onā Johnās cameo and trying to figure out āthe exact balanceā of how much screen time he should have. She promised that viewers āwill be really happyā when John shows up in Ballerina, but if they still havenāt nailed it down, then that remains to be seen.
Seeing Keanu Reeves Back As John Wick Before The Events Of Chapter 4 Will Be WeirdChapter 4 Concluded John's Story PerfectlyBallerina takes place between the third and fourth John Wick movies, and itāll be strange to see Reeves reprise his role at that point in the timeline. John Wick: Chapter 3 ā Parabellum ended with a shocking twist in which Winston shot John off the roof of the Continental, John fell into the alley below, the Bowery King brought him back to his hideout, and they began to plot their revenge against the High Table. Between then and the beginning of John Wick: Chapter 4, John was supposedly in hiding.
It might make Chapter 4ās ending feel less impactful, because it wasnāt the last time viewers saw John after all.
There was no way Ballerina could take place after John Wick: Chapter 4 and still feature John himself, since John was apparently shot dead at the end of John Wick: Chapter 4. But Chapter 4 ended Johnās story so perfectly, allowing him to find peace in death and reunite with his late wife Helen in the great beyond, that itāll be odd to see him back on the big screen like none of that happened. It might make Chapter 4ās ending feel less impactful, because it wasnāt the last time viewers saw John after all.
John Wick Returning In A Prequel Doesn't Answer The Franchise's Biggest QuestionIs John Alive? And If So, How?Itās exciting that John is returning to the screen in a new movie, but since itās a prequel taking place before Chapter 4, it wonāt answer the biggest question looming over the franchise. Since Johnās death scene was shot and edited so ambiguously ā and itās John Wick, the guy who can seemingly survive anything ā thereās a widespread fan theory that John is still alive at the end of Chapter 4. A body is never shown; it cuts straight from a bleeding John to a well-tended gravesite. Itās unlikely, but not impossible, that John faked his death.
RelatedJohn Wick 5 Has An Even Bigger Challenge Than Bringing Keanu Reeves' Character Back From The DeadIt would be a huge challenge to pull off John Wick: Chapter 5, and not just because Keanu Reeves' iconic assassin was killed off in Chapter 4.
If Reeves was returning as John in John Wick: Chapter 5, then the franchise would have to answer the question of whether or not John really died. If he faked his death, then he lives to go on another adventure. If he really died, then he might have to fight his way through the demons of Hell. Frankly, a proper John Wick 5 set in the fires of Hell would be a much more tantalizing prospect than a cameo appearance in an unrelated spinoff.
Ballerina Must Have More To Offer Than Just Its John Wick CameoEve Needs To Be A Great Character In Her Own RightAs long as Ballerina is committed to bringing John back for a cameo appearance, then that cameo appearance needs to be awesome enough to justify recycling a character who already got a perfect ending. But the movie needs to offer more than just a great cameo by Reeves. Eve needs to be a compelling character in her own right ā ideally, as compelling as John himself was when audiences were first introduced to a widowed ex-hitman who dusted off his old arsenal and rekindled his long-dormant bloodlust when his adorable puppy was murdered in cold blood.
Saltburn director Emerald Fennell did some uncredited work on the script for Ballerina.
With her brief but unforgettable turn as Paloma in No Time to Die, de Armas proved she can ably play an action hero and carry her own action vehicle. The biggest challenge will be coming up with a script thatās worthy of her talents. Shay Hatten, one of the writers of the past two John Wick movies, scripted Ballerina, so he should be able to bring the same thrills he brought to those films. But writing a sequel for an existing iconic character the audience already loves isnāt the same as introducing a brand-new character in the John Wick universe.
Ballerina Release Date June 6, 2025 Director Len Wiseman Writers Shay Hatten, Derek Kolstad Prequel(s) John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, John Wick: Chapter 2, John Wick Sequel(s) John Wick: Chapter 4
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