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“We have ideas for John Wick 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.” The director of the saga with Keanu Reeves sets an essential condition so that the fourth installment is not the last


The premiere of the last episode of ‘The Continental’ has left us without the ‘John Wick’ universe until next year, since that will be when its spin-off premieres ‘Ballerina’. Beyond that, nothing is really confirmed despite the fact that Lionsgate announced the launch of ‘John Wick 5’ a few months ago. Now the director of the saga Chad Stahelski He has made it clear what is essential for it to be a reality.

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Stahelski has given an interview to Inverse in which he reveals what “” has, but there is a fundamental problem which could be an insurmountable obstacle for both him and Reeves:

We just don’t have the story closed. I have no interest in bringing back John Wick just for the money. Is he a character I like? Yes of course. And if he did a couple of John Wick movies, great. Keanu would do one again in a second if we had a good story. We leave that open. I know the studio would love for us to say we have another one.

Additionally, Stahelski appreciates the support of Lionsgate to continue exploring this universe without it necessarily being with movies starring Reeves, pointing out that “”.

It is not yet clear in what other projects all this could crystallize, but what does seem clear is that both Stahelski and Reeves have not yet turned the page – remember that the actor already set out his conditions to return a few months ago. The point is that perhaps now they prefer to take things slow and focus on other projects. For example, the filmmaker has been working on a reboot of ‘The Immortals’ for years that never comes to fruition, and they have signed Henry Cavill to star in it.

What does seem clear is that ‘Ballerina’ is not going to be the last stage of this franchise, but there will be time to find out the next moves, and if one thing Stahelski and Reeves have shown, it is that We can trust them in everything related to the world of John Wick.

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Bad news for fans of ‘John Wick’: the brutal fourth film starring Keanu Reeves is left without a physical edition in Spain because “it is not financially viable”


Any Spanish collector of films in physical format was already smelling it, but it never hurts to have this sad certainty: the brutal ‘John Wick 4’ is left without a physical edition, since the distributor Diamond Films He has recalled that he does not plan to publish any of his films on DVD, Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD, justifying this decision with “”.

Demand is very low

The truth is that no Diamond Films film has been published in physical format in our country for a long time, so the only thing we needed was an official explanation from him. We finally got it, and this is what it says:

Since we started our activity in Spain, we are committed to the creation and distribution of DVDs and Blu-Ray. Unfortunately, the company in charge of manufacturing and logistics ceased its activity permanently, due to the low demand for these products, so we had no choice but to stop editing our films in these formats. We understand that there are still some collectors who continued to bet on the physical format and we are very grateful that you are interested in keeping it, but we hope you understand that the demand is so low that its manufacture is not economically viable.

That the physical market in Spain is not going through its best moment is something indisputable. Gone are the years of strength in which there were countless buyers. Many of them were disappearing with the rise of streaming and something tells me that the obsession created around 50% offers, very common a few years ago and rarely seen today, does not help to be profitable either. Now it seems that the only thing that really sells are steelbooks – and I am the first to give them priority over simple editions.

All in all, movies continue to be released in our country and there are distributors like Reel One Entertainment that subsist solely on DVD and Blu-ray sales, so profits should continue to give. Perhaps few and very focused on certain titles –I don’t have the slightest doubt about the good sales of ‘John Wick 4’, but what about the rest of the releases?-, so one can understand that they have opted for other sources of income. Which is it? I suspect that the exclusivity that Diamond Films titles have for a time with Prime Video when they are released on streaming must be more profitable than what they could earn without it and the extra of the physical format.

Obviously, ‘John Wick 4’ is not the only title affected -the same will happen with the recent ‘Talk to me’, the polarizing ‘Beau is afraid’ or the still pending release ‘The last trip of Demeter’-, but surely the most striking. Let’s not forget all the trouble that occurred with the physical format edition of its first installment, which did not appear for sale in our country until this very 2023. By the way, this will also affect future releases, so if ‘John Wick 5’ has just been done, you can count on the same thing to happen.