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  • John Wick spinoff ‘The Continental’ to premiere in September on Peacock

    Express News Service

    It was earlier announced that the John Wick spinoff series titled The Continental will be releasing this year. Now, the makers have confirmed that the series will stream on the NBC streaming platform Peacock in September. However, an official release date is yet to be confirmed.

    The spinoff series will explore the organised network of hotels controlled by the organisation for assassins known as The High Table. The series will be based on characters created by screenwriter Derek Kolstad for the John Wick film franchise. Greg Coolidge and Kirk Ward serve as writers and showrunners on the show.

    The ensemble cast of the series includes Mel Gibson, Ayomide Adegun, Ben Robson, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Jessica Allain, Mishel Prada, Nhung Kate and Peter Greene.

    Another John Wick spinoff, a film titled Ballerina, is also in the works. With Ana De Armas playing the lead role, Ballerina is eyeing an early 2024 release. While Keanu Reeves is confirmed to have a cameo in Ballerina, it is unclear if he will appear as John Wick in The Continental.

    It was earlier announced that the John Wick spinoff series titled The Continental will be releasing this year. Now, the makers have confirmed that the series will stream on the NBC streaming platform Peacock in September. However, an official release date is yet to be confirmed.

    The spinoff series will explore the organised network of hotels controlled by the organisation for assassins known as The High Table. The series will be based on characters created by screenwriter Derek Kolstad for the John Wick film franchise. Greg Coolidge and Kirk Ward serve as writers and showrunners on the show.

    The ensemble cast of the series includes Mel Gibson, Ayomide Adegun, Ben Robson, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Jessica Allain, Mishel Prada, Nhung Kate and Peter Greene.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Another John Wick spinoff, a film titled Ballerina, is also in the works. With Ana De Armas playing the lead role, Ballerina is eyeing an early 2024 release. While Keanu Reeves is confirmed to have a cameo in Ballerina, it is unclear if he will appear as John Wick in The Continental.

  • ‘John Wick’ prequel series ‘The Continental’ to debut on Prime Video in 2023

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: Streaming service Prime Video on Friday announced that the upcoming “John Wick” prequel series “The Continental” will launch on its platform in 2023.

    Produced by Lionsgate Television, the show focuses on the inner workings of the titular hotel from the Keanu Reeves-led action film franchise.

    The series will be exclusively available to Prime Video members worldwide, excluding the US, Middle East and Israel, in 2023, Prime Video said in a press release.

    “The Continental” is told from the perspective of a young Winston Scott, played by Colin Woodell, the manager of the hotel, which is a refuge for assassins.

    “Throughout the series, viewers will follow Winston through the underworld of 70’s New York, where he will battle demons from his past as he attempts to seize control of the iconic hotel – a hotel that serves as a meeting point for the world’s most dangerous criminals,” the official plotline read.

    It will also feature veteran actor Mel Gibson as Cormac, Ayomide Adegun as young Charon, Ben Robson as Frankie, Hubert Point-Du Jour as Miles, Jessica Allain as Lou, Mishel Prada as KD, Nhung Kate as Yen and Peter Greene as Uncle Charlie.

    “The John Wick films have created one of the most immersive, detailed and enjoyable universes we’ve seen on screen in the last decade,” said Chris Mansolillo, Director, Content Acquisition, Prime Video.

    “We are extremely proud to play a part in continuing to build that universe, offering viewers an insight into the origins of the infamous Continental Hotel and its incredible characters,” he added.

    The series is showrun by Greg Coolidge and Kirk Ward, who also serve as writers and executive producers alongside Albert Hughes, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, Chad Stahelski, Derek Kolstad, David Leitch, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, and Marshall Persinger.

    MUMBAI: Streaming service Prime Video on Friday announced that the upcoming “John Wick” prequel series “The Continental” will launch on its platform in 2023.

    Produced by Lionsgate Television, the show focuses on the inner workings of the titular hotel from the Keanu Reeves-led action film franchise.

    The series will be exclusively available to Prime Video members worldwide, excluding the US, Middle East and Israel, in 2023, Prime Video said in a press release.

    “The Continental” is told from the perspective of a young Winston Scott, played by Colin Woodell, the manager of the hotel, which is a refuge for assassins.

    “Throughout the series, viewers will follow Winston through the underworld of 70’s New York, where he will battle demons from his past as he attempts to seize control of the iconic hotel – a hotel that serves as a meeting point for the world’s most dangerous criminals,” the official plotline read.

    It will also feature veteran actor Mel Gibson as Cormac, Ayomide Adegun as young Charon, Ben Robson as Frankie, Hubert Point-Du Jour as Miles, Jessica Allain as Lou, Mishel Prada as KD, Nhung Kate as Yen and Peter Greene as Uncle Charlie.

    “The John Wick films have created one of the most immersive, detailed and enjoyable universes we’ve seen on screen in the last decade,” said Chris Mansolillo, Director, Content Acquisition, Prime Video.

    “We are extremely proud to play a part in continuing to build that universe, offering viewers an insight into the origins of the infamous Continental Hotel and its incredible characters,” he added.

    The series is showrun by Greg Coolidge and Kirk Ward, who also serve as writers and executive producers alongside Albert Hughes, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, Chad Stahelski, Derek Kolstad, David Leitch, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, and Marshall Persinger.

  • Mel Gibson to star in ‘John Wick’ prequel series ‘The Continental’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Veteran actor Mel Gisbon has been roped in to play a pivotal role in the “John Wick” prequel series “The Continental” for Starz and Lionsgate Television. The show, originally ordered in 2018, focuses on the inner workings of the titular hotel from the film franchise, which is a refuge for assassins.

    It will explore the origin behind the hotel-for-assassins through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott, who is dragged into the Hell-scape of a 1975 New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind.

    “Winston charts a deadly course through the New York’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the iconic hotel, which serves as the meeting point for the world’s most dangerous criminals,” the plotline reads.

    According to Deadline, Gibson will play a new character named Cormac, though no further details are available about his role. “The Continental” will be a three-night event series but no premiere date is currently set.

    Greg Coolidge and Kirk Ward are writing the series and will serve as showrunners as well as executive producers. Chad Stahelski, Derek Kolstad, David Leitch, Shawn Simmons, Paul Wernick, and Rhett Reese are all executive producing along with Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee of Thunder Road Pictures.

    “The Continental” will be the first series based on the Keanu Reeves-led “John Wick” film trilogy, which has has grossed almost USD 600 million worldwide. All the three films have been scripted by Kolstad and directed by Stahelski.

    They are currently filming “John Wick: Chapter Four” with Reeves reprising his assassin character. Actor Ian McShane plays the older version of Winston in the movies.

  • ‘John Wick’ spinoff series ‘The Continental’ to focus on young Winston

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: “The Continental”, the TV spinoff to Keanu Reeves-starrer action franchise, is set 40 years before the first movie and focuses on a young Winston, the owner of the famous hotel for assassins.

    Lionsgate TV chairman Kevin Beggs said “The Continental” will have only three 90-minute episodes, reported Deadline.

    Beggs said there were different pitches but they finally settled on the current plotline as they did not want the spinoff to impact the future installments of the movie in any way.

    The winning pitch came from the creative team of the show Wayne, a YouTube Premium exclusive.

    “We were really blown away because it solved a bunch of problems and was super exciting, about a crumbling New York in the 1970s with a garbage strike that has piled up bags of garbage to the third floor of most brownstones….the mafia muscling in on that business which is why in The Sopranos he’s in the sanitation business, and other things that are really real as an interesting backdrop to explore the origins of The Continental which is famously within the movie franchise the assassin’s hotel in which you cannot kill anyone on the hotel grounds, but of course if you step one foot off you’re fair game, and that’s employed to great effect in many of the plots in the movies. Running all of that is Winston,” he explained.

    In the movies, Winston is played by Ian McShane.

    Beggs said they are exploring a young Wilson in “The Continental” and “how it came to be that he and his team of confederates found their way into this hotel which we have met for the first time in the movie franchise 40 years later.”

    “That’s the arena. I won’t give away more than that, but Starz really leaned into this take also, and they have been great collaborators. And how we’ve approached this first season is as three essentially 90-minute events which you could construe as a limited series or a limited event series.”

    Reeves may not be in front of the camera but he is in talks to executive produce the series.

    The series has no release date but the fourth film is slated to release on May 27, 2022.