John Wick Animated Prequel In Works, Keanu Reeves Anticipated To Voice

As a part of its growth of the John Wick universe, Lionsgate is prepping an animated motion movie that includes the famend murderer. The announcement was made right this moment at CinemaCon by Adam Fogelson, chair, Lionsgate Movement Image Group. It’s anticipated that franchise star Keanu Reeves will return to voice his signature character. Shannon Tindle is about to direct, Vanessa Taylor is writing.

The film will return in time to inform the story of John Wick earlier than the primary movie, as he completes the Unattainable Process — the killing of all of his rivals in a single night time — with a purpose to free himself from his obligation to the Excessive Desk and earn the correct to be with the love of his life, Helen.

The animated characteristic might be produced by the John Wick workforce of Thunder Street’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, 87Eleven Leisure’s Chad Stahelski, and Reeves. 87Eleven Leisure’s Alex Younger and Jason Spitz will govt produce.

Tindle most lately co-wrote and directed the Annie-nominated Netflix movie Ultraman: Rising. She additionally created the double Oscar nominee Kubo and the Two Strings and served as govt producer/showrunner on the Emmy-winning sequence Misplaced Ollie. Taylor is called author and co-executive producer of Sport of Thrones, author of Divergent, and an Oscar nominee for her work with Guillermo del Toro on Greatest Image winner The Form of Water.

Fogelson stated, “In each animation and the world of John Wick, the chances are countless. And there’s no John Wick story followers are clamoring for greater than the Unattainable Process. Shannon’s tackle that story is an unbelievable one, and we’re past excited to see what John Wick can do in animation.”

Stahelski added, “I’ve all the time been fascinated with anime. It has all the time been an enormous affect on me, particularly with the John Wick sequence. To have the chance to develop a John Wick anime appears to be the right development for the John Wick world. I really feel John Wick is the right property for this medium — anime holds the potential to broaden our world, our characters, and our motion in methods unimaginable earlier than.”

Iwanyk and Lee stated, “Shannon has a wide ranging imaginative and prescient for a movie we’ve all lengthy wished to make. Alongside Vanessa’s story, we’re vastly excited to carry it to audiences.”