John Wick May Have Video Games Involved in His Future

Since 2014, Keanu Reeves has shot, stabbed, library ebook’d, and horse’d dozens of gangsters and employed weapons to demise throughout three (happening 4) John Wick movies. While we all know that the franchise will proceed with the upcoming prequel collection The Continental, and there’ll be one other movie in a few years (plus the Ballerina spinoff movie reportedly led by Ana de Armas), Lionsgate is trying to maintain the collection going any method it may well. And on this period of IP and franchises hopping from one medium over to a different, which means video video games aren’t out of the realm of chance.

During a current earnings name earlier within the week, Lionsgate CEO John Feltheimer stated that the corporate had been pitches for a online game based mostly on the movies. While nothing’s set in stone but, he did tease that ought to a recreation come to fruition, it could almost certainly be from a triple-A developer. “I don’t want to get ahead of myself here…we have been fielding proposals. We certainly are interested in moving that forward, but I don’t want to say anything more about that at this time.”

Thus far, the one online game to return out of the franchise was John Wick Hex, a 2019 timeline technique recreation from developer Bithell Games that served as a prequel to the movies. Beyond that, Reeves himself isn’t any stranger to video games: exterior of enjoying Johnny Silverhand in 2020’s Cyberpunk 2077, he performed Neo within the live-action cutscenes of 2003’s Enter the Matrix, and once more in final 12 months’s The Matrix Awakens tech demo. And even when the sport doesn’t star him, it’s possible that he’d present up in some capability, provided that the franchise is mainly constructed round him.

But the massive query can be, which developer might convey John Wick’s mixture of kung fu and gunplay to a online game format and make them each really feel equally satisfying as an alternative of a shooter that simply occurs to have some not horrible melee fight? Let us know who suppose might make that occur within the feedback beneath.

[by way of IGN]

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