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[dropcap size=small]F[/dropcap]ans of John Wick will be pleased to hear the the director behind the series, Chad Stahelski, is currently planning on doing a prequel television series for John Wick.
In a recent interview with SlashFilm he talked about his plans for a prequel.
“Well, we’re not doing a prequel [with Chapter 2]. We wanted to, it just didn’t fit quite where we’re at….We basically almost have a prequel written, but we’d save that for other aspects of the property. Lionsgate is very interested in doing a John Wick TV show, and that seems very appealing to us, to give those creative ideas to that entity, because I think in TV you could really expand on what that is, and greater than we could in just a two-hour film. We’d like to wrap-up the story we’re telling now and maybe save all our prequel ideas and impossible task ideas for that medium.”
This would not be out of the ordinary as many other successful movie series are creating spin-off/prequel television shows, i.e. Taken and the Marvel television shows. The interesting part of this deal will be if they can get Keanu Reeves to do the show.
Without Keanu Reeves there is no John Wick, so if he would not want to do the show then it would essentially fall apart. Reeves has not spoken about the project so we do not know his intentions at this time but this is something to keep an eye on moving forward.
Don’t forget that John Wick: Chapter 2 will be released in theaters on February 10!
