The John Wick franchise isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, as evidenced by Donnie Yen’s Caine spinoff and the anime prequel about the Impossible Task following the release of Ballerina on the 2025 movies schedule in June. However, the future of the main film series remains uncertain, despite Keanu Reeves’ character seemingly dying at the end of Chapter 4. In April, Lionsgate announced that John Wick: Chapter 5 is in development, but then in June, director Chad Stahelski indicated it’s not a sure thing yet.
I’m not here to talk about whether or not Chapter 5 should happen for narrative reasons. Instead, after watching the documentary Wick is Pain, which chronicles the making of the four John Wick movies, I’d rather focus on how Keanu Reeves makes a good point about the title assassin moving forward. Specifically, even by action movie standards, this franchise asks a lot of the actor physically.
