John Wick Presents: Ballerina

John Wick Presents: Ballerina Movie Details:

Also known as	Ballerina
Based on	Characters by Derek Kolstad
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Action, Thriller
Release Date	June 6, 2025
Running Time	TBA
Age rating	TBA
Cast	Ana de Armas Anjelica Huston Gabriel Byrne Lance Reddick Catalina Sandino Moreno Norman Reedus
Directed by	Len Wiseman
Written by	Shay Hatten Michael Finch Emerald Fennell
Produced by	Basil Iwanyk Erica Lee Chad Stahelski
Cinematography by	Romain Lacourbas
Edited by	Jason Ballantine
Music by	Marco Beltrami Anna Drubich
Production Companies	Thunder Road Films 87Eleven Productions
Distributor	Lionsgate

John Wick Presents: Ballerina Movie Cast & Characters:

• Ana de Armas as Rooney, a ballerina who seeks revenge by hunting the murderers of her family.
• Anjelica Huston as “The Director”
• Keanu Reeves as John Wick,
• Gabriel Byrne as the main antagonist of the film.
• Lance Reddick as Charon
• Norman Reedus
• Ian McShane as Winston Scott
• Catalina Sandino Moreno
• Anne Parillaud
• Abraham Popoola as Frank

Storyline:

Taking place between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and Chapter 4, ballerina-assassin Rooney hunts the murderers of her family.

About John Wick Presents: Ballerina Movie:

John Wick Presents: Ballerina is an upcoming American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman, from a script written by Shay Hatten, Michael Finch, and Emerald Fennell, based on an original story by Hatten. It is a spin-off and the fifth film in the John Wick franchise, set between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023). It stars Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Norman Reedus, Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves.

In July 2017, Lionsgate Films acquired Shay Hatten’s action thriller Ballerina, with Thunder Road Films producing the film with Hatten rewriting the script to be a part of the John Wick franchise, with the title character, Rooney, ultimately being written into the third main film, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum in a cameo role ahead of the production of Ballerina, portrayed by Unity Phelan. By October 2019, Len Wiseman was hired to direct the film.

In May 2020, Stahelski stated that Wiseman had read the script earlier, and approached the studio with a pitch of how he would develop the project, based on Hatten’s draft, for which the proof of concept had previously been uploaded to YouTube in September 2017.

Stahelski met with Wiseman, and approached executives to hire the filmmaker. He confirmed that he and his team will work closely with Wiseman on the action sequences and stunts for the film, while acknowledging that Wiseman’s filmmaking style will add variety to the franchise. At that point, Wiseman and Hatten were working on a newer draft of the script.

By April 2022, the film was officially announced by Lionsgate, with Ana de Armas tapped to star in the lead role. In July 2022, de Armas stated they hired Emerald Fennell to contribute to the script as one of its writers.

In May 2020, it was reported that the studio was looking for an actress to star in the film, with Chloë Grace Moretz as the template for the kind of talent they were looking for.

By October 2021, Ana de Armas entered negotiations to play the titular character, a ballerina-assassin named Rooney, replacing Unity Phelan, who previously portrayed the character in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019).

By April 2022 at CinemaCon, Lionsgate officially announced that de Armas would star in the lead role.

In November 2022, it was announced that Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, and Anjelica Huston had joined the cast and will reprise their roles from previous films of the franchise; as John Wick, Winston Scott, Charon, and “the Director”, respectively.

It also marks the third collaboration between de Armas and Reeves, having previously worked together in Knock Knock (2015) and Exposed (2016).

Initially scheduled to commence in summer 2022, principal photography officially began on November 7, 2022, in Prague. Ballerina was in post-production in February 2023. The music score was composed by Marco Beltrami and Anna Drubich, which they joined it in April 17, 2023.

The teaser trailer for the upcoming John Wick spinoff film “Ballerina” was shown at CinemaCon 2024 to a closed-door audience. The trailer featured characters like Charon, Winston, and Norman Reedus’ undisclosed character, with a cameo appearance by John Wick himself at the end. Entertainment Weekly reported that the film’s title had been changed to “John Wick Presents: Ballerina”. Bleeding Cool praised the footage as “exactly what CinemaCon dreams are made of”, while Variety described it as “heavy on ass-kicking” and “brutal”, highlighting a sequence where the lead character Rooney uses a flamethrower.

John Wick Presents: Ballerina is scheduled to be released in the United States and the United Kingdom on June 6, 2025. It was previously scheduled to be released on June 7, 2024.