JOHN WICK Director Discusses THE CONTINENTAL Spinoff Series and How it Will Give a Different Perspective on The Underworld
On top of a fourth John Wick film that’s in development, there’s also a spinoff series coming titled The Continental, which sounds like it’s going to be awesome! The series will center around the stories in the chain of hotels that cater to the assassins in this world that has been created. The series will also expand on the history of the league of assassins. It was already explained:
The Continental will be way earlier in the history of the series. So it’ll be a fresh look at the continental as the hotel and how that came into the being of John Wick. It’s way back in terms of the movies.
The creators of John Wick and Keanu Reeves are all involved in this project and during a recent interview with Fandom, franchise director Chad Stahelski discussed the series what fans can expect when it. The series will expand on the history of the league of assassins and it will also offer us a different perspective on the world:
"The angle they're working on The Continental TV show right now is a different perspective on the whole world, it's coming at it from different characters' points of view and what the breadth of the world is. Whereas in John Wick I'm following a time period that's almost just a week in the life of one man, [for] who everything spirals out of control, which our John Wick story. The angle that the other producers and writers on the TV show are coming from is a very different timeline structure and a very different perspective of character. About how deep the world goes, and not just assassins but everything that's included. And a lot of the origin stories of some of the characters you see in Wick. It's got some very interesting things, it's a very interesting take on the Wick world, which I think it pretty cool. But it won't be from the John Wick perspective. Not that John Wick won't be involved with it, it's just not from his perspective."
This is gonna be so cool! It’ll be interesting to see how Wick’s story is weaved into this series. He will be connected in some way, and while he won’t be the main character, I imagine his actions happening in the background will influence the story of the series. When previously talking about the series, the filmmaker said:
“I like telling stories from my one character’s perspective. Once you put that aside with the TV show, [you can] expand to all the different characters and follow them throughout their journey. You can be with the consigliere, concierge, the sommelier — you can be with all these different characters and walk through the world in different aspects; ones that I’m a little limited [from exploring] by staying with my lead guy.”
I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve seen from the John Wick franchise and I’m pumped up for this series! It’s coming to Starz, but we have no idea when it will be released.