John Wick fans have more to look forward to after the successful release of its fourth installment as the spinoff film Ballerina promises to give Keanu Reeves more than a cameo role. Led by Ana de Armas, Ballerina will take place between John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and Chapter 4.
The much-awaited spinoff will feature returning cast, such as Anjelica Huston as The Director, Ian McShane as Winston Scott, and the late Lance Reddick as Charon. Surprisingly, Reeves’ addition to the Ballerina cast was a last-minute decision.Speaking with Collider, Ballerina co-writer Shay Hatten discussed Ana de Armas’ character and background story in the movie and what sets her apart from John Wick:
Ballerina starts by introducing a character who kind of went through some of the same training as John in the ballet academy… but then she ends up going to a whole new corner of the world and a new kind of isolated community that really is unlike anything we’ve seen in these previous John Wick movies.We got him to be in it for a good chunk. He’s a real character, and it’s not just kind of a one-piece cameo. He’s got… Well, I shouldn’t say too much, but he’s in the movie in a way that I think people are going to be really excited by.”
“I wrote the original script, then was rewriting it. And I think it was when Ana [de Armas] came on, Emerald came on and did a pass at it. And then I came back on later and read her draft, and I was like, “It’s great,” because she’s a genius. So it was like she kind of, I think, put a lot of ideas in there that, as is the nature of the thing, some of them stuck and are in the movie, and some of them we kind of developed away from again as it was going into production.”
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