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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Adds Donnie Yen as an “Old Friend” of John Wick’s!
Keanu Reeves is of course coming back for John Wick: Chapter 4, with the cast also including singer Rina Sawayama in her feature film debut. Additionally, we’ve learned via Deadline tonight that Donnie Yen will also join the John Wick franchise in the fourth installment!
Donnie Yen (Ip Man, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) will play “an old friend of Reeves’ super assassin John Wick, who shares his same history and many of the same enemies.”
Lionsgate is currently set to release Chapter 4 on May 27, 2022.
The John Wick franchise has been incredibly successful and profitable for Lionsgate, with Chapter 3 pulling in $326 million worldwide back in 2019 – to date, a franchise best.
Chapter 4 will presumably pick up right after the events of Parabellum, with a bruised, broken (but still alive) John Wick taking the fight to the deadliest organization in the world.
Chad Stahelski (John Wick 1-3) is returning to direct.
Abigail Cowen (“Stranger Things,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” The Ritual) will lead the cast of psychedelic horror movie The Guide, Deadline reports this week.
James Badge Dale (13 Hours) and Edouard Philipponnat (Napoleon) will also star. Inon Shampanier directs from a script co-written with Natalie Shampanier.
Deadline details, “Abigail Cowen will play a young woman who enters a psilocybin mushroom retreat in an effort to heal past traumas, surrendering herself to the care of a psychedelic therapy guide (James Badge Dale). As the guide’s motives come under suspicion, the past bleeds into the present and the session unravels into a psychedelic nightmare.”
“This psychedelic therapy thriller is designed to be a visceral inward journey, and I am thrilled to go on this journey with the incredibly talented James Badge Dale, Abigail Cowen and Edouard Philipponnat,” Inon Shampanier said in a statement to Deadline.
Stay tuned for more on The Guide as we learn it.
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