The release date for Ballerina is drawing closer, which means it’s about time to get audiences on board with John Wick’s first spinoff movie. Lionsgate has released a dozen character posters for the upcoming film featuring Ana de Armaas’ Eve Macarro, Keanu Reeves’ John Wick, and the rest of the assembled cast. Check them out below.
In the film, Eve trained under the Ballerina program teased in John Wick 3 that’s part of the same Russian crime syndicate that mentored John into a killing machine. After the death of her father Javier (Daniel Casteñeda), Winston (Ian McShane) took her in, and now that she’s all grown up, she’s gunning for revenge against those who ruined her life.
Unfortunately, she’s a little too determined, leading to a showdown between her and Wick pre-John Wick: Chapter 4. Her vengeance quest sees her crossing paths with some familiar faces—the late Lance Reddick and Anjelica Huston are once again playing Charon and the Director—and new some ones, like mystery man Daniel Pine (Norman Reedus), her instructor Nogi (Sharon Duncan-Brewster), and Austrian crime lord the Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne).
Ballerina isn’t the only thing coming out of John Wick in the near future. Lionsgate recently confirmed a fifth mainline movie is in the works with Reeves; ditto an animated prequel movie concerning the Impossible Task that was meant to get him out of the assassin game. There’s also going to be a solo movie for Caine, John’s blind BFF from John Wick 4, played by Donnie Yen, who’ll be directing that spinoff.
But first: Ballerina, which comes to theaters June 6.
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