Highlights
- Spinoff film focusing on Caine from John Wick: Chapter 4 announced, following the events of the most recent film.
- No official news on John Wick: Chapter 5, current focus on expanding universe with spinoffs like Ballerina and The Continental.
- Untitled Caine spinoff to star Donnie Yen, will delve into consequences of character’s actions in Japan shown in Chapter 4.
In a new twist of events regarding the John Wick franchise, a spinoff film will follow a fan-favorite character from John Wick: Chapter 4. The spinoff will focus on the blind, expert assassin Caine. Despite no announcements of a fifth chapter in the series, this newly announced spinoff is said to follow the events of the most recent film.
There have been plenty of whispers of John Wick: Chapter 5, but with nothing official and set in stone, it seems the current era will be focused on spinoffs set within the larger John Wick universe. After the fourth film premiered last year, the most recent entry in the franchise is The Continental: From the World of John Wick, a spinoff Peacock exclusive prequel series focused on the titular secretive hotel for assassins, which aired in late 2023. The next John Wick film will also be a spinoff, Ballerina, following an assassin played by Ana de Armas (Knives Out, Blade Runner: 2049) who has been trained by the Ruska Roma, the elite Russian organization that trains orphans to be assassins.
According to Deadline, the next film will be another spinoff starring martial arts legend Donnie Yen (of Ip Man and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story fame) as Caine, a popular side character who debuted in John Wick: Chapter 4. The untitled film will be produced by Erica Lee and Basil Iwanyk, who have produced every mainline John Wick film, as well as by Chad Stahelski, who has served as the director for the entire franchise so far, but is stepping into a producing role for Ballerina and this. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it has been revealed that the film will follow the events of John Wick: Chapter 4.
The mysterious hitman Caine left a big impact on the franchise despite his limited time in John Wick: Chapter 4. Forced to hunt down John Wick under threat to his daughter, Caine winds up traveling to Japan and killing Wick’s friend Koji, who was hiding Wick at the Osaka Continental. A post-credits scene shows Koji’s knife-wielding daughter Kira confronting Caine, having sworn to avenge her father’s death. Undoubtedly, this confrontation and its consequences will be a large factor of the untitled Caine spinoff’s story.
John Wick will appear in Ballerina, despite the character seemingly dying at the end of the fourth film. This is because Ballerina is a prequel to the events of John Wick: Chapter 4. If there’s any hope of Keanu Reeves returning in a fifth chapter, this new Caine spinoff could serve as a stepping stone for that purpose. But if John Wick is completely dead and Lionsgate wishes to move on without him, perhaps Caine will establish new iconography for the franchise and prove just as popular with his own movie. It’s set to shoot in Hong Kong next year, and will most likely premiere sometime in 2026-2027.
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