As a part of its enlargement 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 Activity — the killing of all of his rivals in a single evening — to be able to free himself from his obligation to the Excessive Desk and earn the fitting to be with the love of his life, Helen.
The animated characteristic will probably 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 government produce.
Tindle most just lately co-wrote and directed the Annie-nominated Netflix movie Ultraman: Rising. He additionally created the double Oscar nominee Kubo and the Two Strings and served as government producer/showrunner on the Emmy-winning collection Misplaced Ollie. Taylor is named 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 infinite. And there’s no John Wick story followers are clamoring for greater than the Unattainable Activity. Shannon’s tackle that story is an unimaginable one, and we’re past excited to see what John Wick can do in animation.”
Stahelski added, “I’ve at all times been fascinated with anime. It has at all times been an enormous affect on me, particularly with the John Wick collection. To have the chance to develop a John Wick anime appears to be the proper development for the John Wick world. I really feel John Wick is the proper 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 panoramic imaginative and prescient for a movie we’ve all lengthy needed to make. Alongside Vanessa’s story, we’re vastly excited to convey it to audiences.”
