Though the ending of John Wick: Chapter 4 seemingly introduced a everlasting finish to the title murderer’s story, making the possibilities of John Wick 5 taking place unlikely, Keanu Reeves isn’t achieved with this character simply but. The 2025 film schedule’s summer season picks consists of Ballerina, which takes place earlier than the third and fourth John Wick motion pictures, permitting Reeves to cross paths with Ana de Armas’ Eve Macro. However that’s not the one motion film Reeves has arising, and phrase’s are available that his BRZRKR movie adaptation has recruited the Quick & Livid franchise’s Justin Lin.
Lin, who directed 4 of the Quick & Livid motion pictures (it was going to be 5 earlier than he dropped out of Quick X per week into filming) has been tapped to direct the BRZRKR film. Introduced again in 2021 shortly after the Growth! Studios comedian ebook collection started its 12-issue run, this venture is being put collectively over at Netflix. THR additionally talked about that Lin will produce by means of his Excellent Storm banner alongside Keanu Reeves, as will Stephen Christy for Growth! Studios, Stephen Hamel of Firm Movies and Ross Richie.
Though Justin Lin hasn’t directed Keanu Reeves in a film earlier than, their skilled paths did cross when the latter turned an angel investor within the former’s new film, Final Days, which premiered in January on the Sundance Movie Pageant. However now these two will get to correctly work collectively on this brutal motion film primarily based off the comedian ebook franchise that Reeves created. The Batman: Half II’s Mattson Tomlin wrote the movie’s script, and he’s additionally going to be the showrunner for a by-product anime collection.
If you happen to’re unfamiliar with BRZRKR, it revolves round B, a half-mortal, half-god immortal warrior who’s been round for 80,000 years and is compelled to inflict violence, even at the price of his sanity. Per the official description offered by Growth! And Netflix:
However after wandering the earth for hundreds of years, B might have lastly discovered a refuge — working for the U.S. authorities to battle the battles too violent and too harmful for anybody else. In trade, B can be granted the one factor he needs — the reality about his limitless blood-soaked existence … and how one can finish it.
Keanu Reeves co-wrote the unique BRZRKR comedian ebook collection with Matt Kindt, and Ron Garney illustrated. That was adopted by the Bloodlines spinoff collection, which follows B at earlier factors in his life. In July 2024, the novel The Guide of Elsewhere was launched, which takes place in an alternate universe from the primary BRZRKR tales.
Now that Justin Lin has boarded the BRZRKR film, hopefully this implies its growth will pace up and it’ll enter manufacturing within the close to future. The earlier these with a Netflix subscription can see Keanu Reeves deliver his creation to life in a cinematic setting, the higher. In the meantime, Ballerina opens in theaters on June 6.