by After “John Wick 4” and the prequel series “The Continental”, the saga continues this year with the spin-off “Ballerina” carried by Ana de Armas. Here is what we know about the film directed by Len Wiseman (“Die Hard 4”).
CAUTION – The article below contains spoilers on the third and fourth films in the “John Wick” saga. Please go your way if you haven't seen them.
Launched in 2014 in the cinema, the John Wick saga never ceases to extend. After the fourth film carried by Keanu Reeves, then the series prequel to the continental visible on Prime Video, the franchise will celebrate its ten years with a spin-off: Ballerina, which will explore one of the branches of mythology presented in the third feature film.
Release date: When does Ballerina come out? Where can we see it?
Directed by Len Wiseman (Underworld, Die Hard 4), he will be in our rooms this Wednesday, June 4, 2025, after having been pushed one year for, in particular, being able to shoot additional action scenes supervised by Chad Stahelski, director of the four John Wick.
Casting: Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves … Who plays in ballerina?
His short but memorable passage in the last James Bond, dying can wait, will have been a revelation. Ana de Armas has been chaining since the roles of action and, after The Gray Man and Ghosted, Ballerina gives her the opportunity to prove her talent a little more in the matter. In the shoes of a young killer who launches in the footsteps of the assassins of her family.
She calls herself Eve Macarro (if it is her real name), and we already know that she will have been trained behind the scenes of Tarkovsky Theater by the director, who manages the New York branch of Ruska Roma, one of the criminal organizations that we meet in the mythology of John Wick. Embodied by Anjelica Huston in the third film, she will be back in Ballerina.
Metropolitan Filmexport What if the heroine of Ballerina hid in John Wick 3?
Just like Keanu Reeves, whose time of presence on the screen has not been clearly defined. Will it be a cameo? From an act of history to the air of witness? Or will it be central in the story? Unless we met him only in the corridors of the Continental hotel, in the company of Lance Reddick (Charon) and Ian McShane (Winston), other familiar faces of the saga announced in the casting.
On the new side, Norman Reedus will face more mobile and lively opponents than the zombies of The Walking Dead (in the role of the villain in history?). Gabriel Byrne will add a little talent and charisma to a whole that is not already lacking. The Frenchwoman Anne Parillaud will also be in the casting according to IMDB. And Abraham Popoola, seen in The Marvels and Morbius, will integrate another franchise.
History: What does Ballerina tell? When does the film take place?
Officially, Ballerina talks about a “Young woman raised like an assassin sets out for the murderers of her family”. But the spectators of a John Wick come less for the plot than for the fight, and it should be the same with this opus. Of which we know nothing on the side “action”.
Unless a desire for unity is at work, the staging of Len Wiseman will undoubtedly be different from that of Chad Stahelski, director of the first four films.
Going in a different direction would also be the best option for this spin-off to find its own identity. And the fact that the heroine has grown in the dance industry may allow choreographies of the fights to eye on the side of the ballets.
You loved her for 15 minutes [chez James Bond] ? You will love it for two hours!
Today, the real question is more “When” that “What”. The character of Anjelica Huston dies in John Wick 3, and those of Lance Reddick and Keanu Reeves in the 4 (even if we can have big doubts for the second). If the three actors are in the cast of Ballerina, it could then take place earlier in the past.
Between the second and the third film? Or in parallel with the events of a feature film, as Jason Bourne – the heritage did it in relation to the central saga carried by Matt Damon? Answer in a few days.
But producer Basil Iwanyk already announces the color about Ana de Armas: “You loved her for 15 minutes [chez James Bond] ? You will love it for two hours! “
