It’s been a month since Ballerina was launched onto the 2025 motion pictures schedule, and whereas I had fun watching the John Wick spinoff like many movie critics did, it by no means fairly reaches the heights of the primary movie collection. One of many causes for that’s as a result of, as my colleague Hugh Scott identified, it screws up the John Wick timeline in a serious method. Fortunately, a deleted Ballerina scene has resolved this plot challenge, although now a brand new query has taken its place in my head.
Earlier than I get into these questions, although, watch the deleted scene for your self beneath, courtesy of IGN:
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This Deleted Scene Clears Up John Wick’s Position In Ballerina’s Second Half
Ballerina primarily takes place through the occasions of John Wick: Chapter 3 and several other months afterwards, however forward of John Wick: Chapter 4. We’re reminded within the spinoff how in Chapter 3, Keanu Reeves’ character had his “ticket punched” by Anjelica Huston’s Director, head of the Ruska Roma. That means, in change for protected passage to Casablanca, John’s ties could be perpetually severed from the crime syndicate that raised him and Ana de Armas’ Eve Macarro. That’s why it was unusual when John resurfaced within the second half of Ballerina to kill Eve on behalf of The Director, as he wasn’t speculated to be affiliated along with her anymore.
Properly, now we have our reply for why this occurred: there was a brand new deal in place. This deleted scene reveals John, now lacking his ring finger, resting on some sort of transport (I’m guessing a ship) when he will get a name from The Director. She agreed to rearrange for him to get the place he must go in change for a favor, and now she’s calling in that favor: kill Eve Macarro to appease Gabriel Byrne’s Chancellor and stop a struggle between the Ruska Roma and the Cult. In order that explains why John was so prepared to assist The Director out through the spinoff: he was merely honoring his facet of this settlement.
The place Was John Wick Touring To?
Whereas I’m curious why John Wick sought out The Director for assist given how issues ended between them in Chapter 3 (don’t overlook she bought her fingers stabbed by Zero for giving John passage), that’s not the query on my thoughts after watching this deleted Ballerina scene. I’m extra inquisitive about his vacation spot aboard that transport. The place was John going, and why was it essential contemplating the situation he was in?
Keep in mind that on the finish of John Wick: Chapter 3, Ian McShane’s Winston shot John on the New York Continental’s rooftop, and the expert murderer ended up falling off the constructing. Winston did this in order a option to publicly declare his allegiance to the Excessive Desk and secretly ensure that John wasn’t truly killed (he solely shot on the bulletproof components of the character’s go well with). Nonetheless, between that and all the opposite accidents he sustained in Chapter 3, John was in tough form and solely survived as a result of he was taken to The Bowery King’s underground hideout.
In the beginning of John Wick: Chapter 4, it appears as if John Wick had been recuperating in New York Metropolis the complete time since Chapter 3 ended, however Ballerina confirmed us he was properly sufficient to hold out no less than one mission throughout the globe. Or possibly it was two, as apparently John wanted to get some place else earlier than The Director interrupted his journey? The place was it, and what did it must do along with his recuperation or vendetta in opposition to the Excessive Desk?
Perhaps one other deleted Ballerina scene will reply this query, however I’ll be okay if it doesn’t. I’m simply glad the key plot challenge I used to be fascinated by after seeing Ballerina in a theater has lastly been resolved. If solely this scene had truly been included within the film.