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The John Wick motion pictures are jam-packed with memorable characters, and one of the vital well-received by followers to date has been ballerina murderer Eve Macarro. After the character made her debut in John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum, Eve goes to get her personal spinoff movie in 2024, fittingly titled Ballerina. The film will mark the debut for critically-acclaimed actress Ana De Armas and is certain to be a success with followers of the unique sequence, giving her character far more backstory. It’s not the one spinoff within the works; a TV sequence referred to as The Continental: From the World of John Wick got here out in 2023.

Hollywood Life has compiled all the main points you’ll want to know concerning the upcoming film, together with what to anticipate earlier than it hits the large display screen in 2025. Keep studying to be taught extra concerning the Ana De Armas-starring movie.

‘Ballerina’ Release Date

Ballerina has been a venture that’s lengthy been in growth, since 2017. It was initially written as its personal movie, earlier than changing into a part of the John Wick sequence. While it’s been a piece in progress for about six years, the film will formally hit theaters on June 6, 2025.

Cast & Crew

While the film will function some contemporary faces, lots of the solid members of Ballerina shall be very acquainted to diehard followers of John Wick. Of course, Keanu Reeves is predicted to make an look because the Baba Yaga himself. Anjelica Huston’s “The Director” is predicted to play prominently within the movie. Ian McShane and the late Lance Reddick are additionally anticipated to look as their characters Winston Scott and Charon, respectively. The film shall be one in every of Lance’s ultimate posthumous movie roles, after his loss of life from coronary heart illness in March 2023.

As you might most likely guess, Ana de Armas will tackle the title function of Eve, however it’s really her debut within the John Wick franchise. The ballerina murderer had beforehand appeared within the third John Wick movie, however the character was performed by ballerina Unity Phelan.

Besides Ana, there are a couple of extra newcomers whose roles haven’t been divulged simply but! Norman Reedus, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Gabriel Byrne all have been solid within the movie, however their characters haven’t but been revealed, per IMDb. 

Behind the digital camera, Len Wiseman is about to direct. He’s beforehand served as producer on main blockbusters like Total Recall and numerous the Underworld movies. He additionally directed the primary Underworld in 2003 and some completely different episodes of TV. As a author, he created the TV sequence Sleepy Hollow and the Underworld sequence.

The script was initially written by Shay Hatten, who additionally wrote John Wick: Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. Some of his different credit embody the motion comedy Day Shift and Army of Thieves, which was co-written with Zack Snyder.

Plot

While there are nonetheless many particulars of the plot to Ballerina which are anticipated to be launched, the essential story is {that a} feminine murderer units out to get revenge on the individuals who killed her members of the family. It additionally reportedly takes place between the third and fourth John Wick movies. The new film is predicted to present some new particulars concerning the mysterious Ruska Roma household, which John was raised in and skilled to turn out to be an murderer.

While many particulars are sparse, Keanu revealed that the film will comply with a lady searching for “revenge” in an look at Comic-Con in 2022. “Someone killed her father. Who might that be? And so it’s her journey for really understanding her previous. She misplaced her father at a younger age, and he or she doesn’t actually know what occurred. Only that somebody got here into the home and killed her father, who had a tattoo. And as we all know in John Wick, when you have a tattoo, one thing’s happening,” he stated, per Collider. 

Shay additionally revealed that the brand new film can even make clear some particulars from John Wick’s previous in a March 2023 interview with Screen Rant. “I feel in Ballerina you’ll get to see a few of the hints of what John skilled throughout his origins in that place, however via the eyes of a special character. It nonetheless solves a few of the solutions of Wick, simply via the eyes of a brand new character,” the screenwriter stated.

Behind the Scenes

As talked about above, the script was initially written as its personal movie, earlier than retro-fitted for John Wick. Lionsgate bought the venture in July 2017, per The Hollywood Reporter. Len was introduced on to direct in October 2019, per Deadline. After it was purchased, some breadcrumbs have been positioned within the third John Wick film. Shay opened up about a few of the authentic particulars in his spec within the above-mentioned Screen Rant interview. “The authentic script was set into Swiss Alps, which is territory that the John Wick motion pictures haven’t touched. So, I feel in an effective way, it meant that we might sort of follow the unique story of that script from Ballerina with out stepping on the toes of John Wick,” he stated.

While Unity Phelan originated the function in John Wick 3, Ana was introduced because the main woman for the film in a CinemaCon panel in April 2022, per Comic Book. It was additionally introduced that Marco Beltrami (who scored Scream, A Quiet Place, and extra) was teaming up with Anna Drubich (who scored Barbarian and extra) to compose the movie’s music, per Film Music Reporter. 

The film reportedly began filming in Prague in November 2022, based on The Prague Reporter. The movie is reportedly in post-production, based on IMDb.