Keanu: No Plans Currently For “John Wick 5”

However you feel about them creatively, financially the “John Wick” franchise has been nothing but most impressive for its distributor Lionsgate.

The four films produced to date cost $20 million, $40 million, $75 million, and $100 million, respectively. Each has earned just over four times their budget worldwide, with the overall franchise pulling in $1.02 billion thus far.

In addition, the character and films are part of the cultural lexicon, the movies having influenced action cinema for the past few years.

Calls for a fifth film are understandable, even with the character seemingly killed off at the end of the last one. Those involved have teased the possibility but nothing concrete has ever emerged.

Now, the film’s star Keanu Reeves has poured some cold water on the possibility of a fifth film. Speaking with Extra TV to promote his motorcycle docuseries “Visionaries”, he says:

“You know, the character’s dead. He died in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4.’ I know, in Hollywood you can [revive dead characters]. I know, I know, it’s the Hollywood story. Right now, there isn’t [any plans].”

Previously, director Chad Stahelski seemed to shoot down more ‘Wick’ talk, saying there would need to be a “real reason” to bring Wick back initially, but post-strike Lionsgate indicated a script was in the works.

Stahelski is busy with his “Highlander” reboot that will shoot in May once its leading man Henry Cavill wraps his current commitments filming the “Voltron” movie in Australia.

Reeves will be seen again as John Wick in the upcoming “Ballerina” movie opening this year.

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