John Wick spinoff: Ballerina
 

If it's as violent as John Wick I'll give it a shot.

Sounds interesting. They should be creating a cinematic universe with John Wick and Atomic Blonde though.

I want to watch Atomic Blonde first and make sure it doesn't suck before I go rallying behind it.

Is John Wick the only memorable thing Keanu Reeves did since the Matrix ended in 2003? I know he was in some Costantine movie but I never saw it, and I thought Man of Tai-Chi felt like a made for TV movie.

Weird, I always thought Keanu Reeves was more popular but he's nowhere on the level of other late 90's or 2000's actors like Tom Cruise, Leonardo Dicaprio or Matt Damon.

I haven't seen it yet myself. It's at 74% on Rotten Tomatoes at the moment if that's your thing. So not John Wick quality, but it sounds like a good time.

Eh, to be directed by Len Wiseman?

http://www.darkhorizons.com/len-wise...wick-spin-off/

Also, I guess we've already seen the character (briefly) in JW3. Huh.

I am totally down with this, although I still own resentment about Iron Man 3, so I hate supporting Shane Black material. I guess the writer is greatly influenced by Black.

OMG that is a great idea. But I think Atomic Blonde was sourced from a comic book, so it's unlikely that this could be done.

And it was set in the 1980s... so the character would be like 70 years old by the time of John Wick 1-3.

Didn't much care for Atomic Blonde, it ended up. It had its moments, though.

Really? What didn't you like?

It's been a couple of years now but I think it was just pretty slow for me. And very predictable.

I do remember it being hella slow.

I liked it in the theaters, bought it as an early 4k eyecandy release. The musical cuing in it is pretty good, and the fights were brutal. To the film's credit, Theron is able to be believable as a super model fighter, whereas it is often totally ludicrous seeing a rail thin chick doing dance choreography in a fight scene and we are supposed to suspend disbelief. So Atomic Blonde was great in that regard.

But that aside? You guys are right, that movie really drags in moments, especially upon a second viewing.

Charlize is probably my favorite actress, so yeah, great movie. Slow, but not boring. Just a slow burn.

I think my main problem was that it was being billed loudly as "Female John Wick." It didn't deliver anywhere close to that promise, and what was there otherwise I didn't find all that clever.

What movie I did really like? "Anna." That was much closer to what I was expecting with "Atomic Blonde." I'd love to see her show up in the John Wick-verse.



There really was some twists in that I maybe should have but did not see coming.

An update:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/stahels...off-ballerina/

Wow! Ana de Armas? I'm sold, sight unseen.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/ana-de-...wick-spin-off/

I saw that and yeah same for me!

From a few months back, but it looks like that casting was confirmed.

https://www.slashfilm.com/646564/ana...vie-ballerina/

Hey, great!

And not only is this a John Wick spinoff... but Keanu Reeves is in it and has action scenes with Ana de Armas.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/de-arma...n-off-filming/

And it's almost done shooting.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/mcshane...llerina-story/

Some more bits about Ballerina. Also Gabriel Byrne is the bad guy, which I hadn't heard.

A teaser trailer in here, with the real trailer coming tomorrow:

https://fictionhorizon.com/ana-de-ar..._QPkuuFZ0YdmZQ

Saw it. Not bad! Some pretty incredible set pieces. And I never thought we would get a dueling flamethrowers scene.

Also, looking at this thread... they'd been trying to get this made since 2017.

I was surprised during that scene where she grabbed the hose that there wasn't an insecticide to melt the dude's skin off.

I didn't expect this to be a smash hit or anything like that, but I have to admit that I am a little shocked that it flopped so badly.

There's a bit of confusion about this. I see a lot of the movie critic people on Youtube bemoaning the big budget of the movie, like "Why did they make it so expensive? Of course it will fail with such a budget." But the reason is -- apparently -- that Len Wiseman originally shot a pretty unwatchable movie and Stahelski had to step in and basically reshoot 75% of the movie almost in secret. That's why the budget.

Beyond the above in mind, this is fairly accurate: