New Ballerina movie trailer suggests Keanu Reeves' John Wick will have a bigger role to play in the spin-off film than we thought

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Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:02:48 +0000

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The official trailer for the John Wick spin-off movie Ballerina implies Keanu Reeves' hitman may have a big supporting role to play.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Lionsgat e has released a new trailer for John Wick spin-off film Ballerina The latest footage implies Keanu Reeves' hitman won't just cameo in it The Ana de Armas-starring action film will be released in June

Lionsgate has released a new trailer for its forthcoming Ballerina movie, and it indicates that Keanu Reeves' John Wick will play a far bigger role in the story than we realized.

Ballerina is the second spin-off project set in the John Wick franchise and will gracefully spin its way into theaters in early June. And, with one of 2025's most anticipated new movies ' release drawing ever closer, Lionsgate has whet our appetite for its arrival with another official trailer one that surprisingly puts Reeves' hitman front and center.

Ballerina 's first trailer had everyone asking the same question about Reeves' appearance . Now, its latest teaser confirms Wick will be sent after Ana de Armas' Eve Macarro, the film's protagonist whose on a one-woman
crusade to track down and kill the individuals who murdered her family. Her quest for vengeance, though, threatens to up-end the established order of the hitman-criminal underworld, which is why Wick is enlisted to use his special talents to stop Macarro.

Reeves is a talented and beloved actor, while Wick is one of his most famous roles among cinephiles. It's no great surprise, then, that Lionsgate is leaning heavily on Wick's appearance in Ballerina to help get bums on seats.

As much as Ballerina 's official trailer makes it seem like he'll have a big role to play in its story, though, there's nothing to say that he actually will.

The footage in said teaser could be part of a 10- to 15-minute segment that
he shows up in. So, while Wick doesn't appear as if he'll just have a cameo role where he simply crosses paths with Macarro, I'd be amazed if Reeves is part of proceedings for anything longer than an extended sequence in
Ballerina 's middle act. After all, this is de Armas' movie, so Lionsgate won't want to overshadow Macarro in her own movie... right? Is Ballerina a prequel movie? Where does it sit on the John Wick timeline? Ballerina takes place alongside the third John Wick flick (Image credit: Lionsgate)

Ballerina 's story actually runs parallel to events that take place in John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum .

It's not a prequel in the traditional sense, then i.e., one that precedes
the action movie series' first film. However, it plays out before John Wick: Chapter 4 , so it's technically a prequel to Reeves' most recent outing as
the famous hitman. Who is part of the Ballerina movie cast? The Director is one of four people that John Wick fans will recognize in Ballerina (Image credit: Lionsgate)

De Armas and Reeves notwithstanding, there'll be a few familiar faces, plus some new ones, to look out for in Ballerina .

Ian McShane and the late Lance Reddick reprise their roles as Winston Scott and Charon from the first four John Wick films. Ballerina will mark the final-ever role of Reddick's career, too, following his shock death in March 2023.

Joining the aforementioned quartet on the cast roster are Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Norman Reedus. Huston returns as The Director, aka the leader of the New York branch of the Ruska Roma crime enterprise, which trained Macarro to become an assassin when she was just a child. The Director is also Wick's adoptive mother, which is why she enlists his help to stop Macarro.

The Walking Dead alumnus Reedus, meanwhile, will play someone called Pine. It's unclear who Byrne and Moreno will play. When will Ballerina be released in theaters? Norman Reedus will play a mysterious character named Pine in Ballerina (Image credit: Lionsgate)

Ballerina will dance into cinemas on June 6 in the US and Australia. UK viewers can catch it in their local multiplex or independent theater a day later on June 7. You might also like Here's how you can watch the John Wick movies in order Here's my review of The Continental , the first John Wick TV spin-off What time is Severance season 2 episode 10 going to be released on Apple TV+?



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