Don Cheadle is ready to star as a jazz musician killer in Canyon, a brand new action-thriller from John Wick author Derek Kolstad and director Colin Tilley.
In keeping with Deadline, Canyon takes place “over the course of 1 scorching evening” and follows Canyon – a part-time jazz musician and full-time killer – who “finds himself the unlikely protector of a younger siren pulled right into a turf conflict between feuding crime households”.
Kolstad will produce with Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson and Davis Leisure’s John Davis and Jeremy Stein. Cheadle may even produce by way of his firm The Radicle Act with Karyn Smith-Forge.
Canyon will mark Tilley’s function movie debut after a protracted profession directing music movies for artists akin to Halsey, Kendrick Lamar, Rita Ora, Justin Timberlake and extra.
Cheadle is finest identified to mainstream audiences for taking part in Rhodey/Warfare Machine within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, showing in Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Captain Marvel, the Avengers motion pictures, in addition to the the Disney+ sequence Secret Invasion. He was nominated for Greatest Actor on the Oscars for 2005’s Lodge Rwanda and in addition starred within the Greatest Image winner Crash.
Along with the John Wick quadrilogy, Kolstad current penned No one 2, which can see Bob Odenkirk return as a household man on a vengeful rampage.
In different John Wick information, the upcoming spin-off Ballerina lately dropped its first official trailer. Set after the occasions of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, the movie stars Ana de Armas as Eve Macarro, a ballerina who’s educated to be an murderer in hopes of avenging the demise of her household.
Keanu Reeves‘ John Wick does make an look within the trailer, though the extent of his position within the movie stays unknown.
Whereas the upcoming movie marks Ana de Armas’ introduction to the John Wick universe, it will likely be the second time the character of Eve Maccaro seems within the franchise. Macarro first appeared in Parabellum, however was then portrayed by American ballet dancer Unity Phelan.
Ballerina marks the fifth John Wick movie, and the primary since 2023’s John Wick: Chapter 4.
In a four-star overview of John Wick: Chapter 4 for NME, Jesse Hassenger wrote: “Chapter 4 doesn’t exude the wheel-spinning cynicism of a ceaselessly franchise. Stahelski might site visitors in extra, however not less than he understands it: how choreography, efficiency and elegance could make over-the-top spectacle cohere into pleasurably overwhelming motion fizz, relatively than congealing right into a sweaty particular results overload. He additionally will get that after 169 minutes, some extent of closure is appreciated. There could be a Chapter 5 however Chapter 4 nonetheless appears like a film giving its all.”
