Tiny dancer: Ana de Armas is a fierce murderer in Ballerina trailer

John Wick followers hoping for a fifth movie within the vastly well-liked motion franchise will no less than be capable of return to “Wick-World” subsequent yr with the discharge of a by-product movie, Ballerina, set between the occasions of 2019’s Chapter 3—Parabellum and Chapter 4 (2023). (The complete title is the decidedly unwieldy From the World of John Wick: Ballerina.) Lionsgate simply dropped the primary trailer, and it has all of the tight motion choreography and eye-popping visuals we have come to count on from the franchise—together with a cameo by none apart from the Baba Yaga himself (Keanu Reeves).

(Spoilers for John Wick Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 under.)

Parabellum discovered Wick declared excommunicado from the Excessive Desk for killing crime lord Santino D’Antonio on the grounds of the Continental. On the run with a bounty on his head, he makes his method to the headquarters of the Ruska Roma crime syndicate, led by the Director (Anjelica Huston). That is the place we discovered Wick was initially named Jardani Jovonovich and skilled as an murderer with the syndicate. The Director additionally trains younger ladies to be ballerina-assassins, and one younger ballerina (performed by Unity Phelan) is proven rehearsing within the scene. That dancer is the principle character in Ballerina, now performed by Ana de Armas.

Screenwriter Shay Hatten bought a spec script that includes the ballerina character to Lionsgate in 2017 and ended up contributing to the Parabellum screenplay and serving as lead author on Chapter 4. Whereas Chad Stahelski has directed all 4 John Wick movies, for Ballerina the studio introduced on Len Wiseman (the Underworld franchise). However Stahelski remains to be a producer on the movie and labored carefully with Wiseman on these all-important motion sequences.

Huston returns because the Director, Ian McShane is again as Winston, and Lance Reddick makes one ultimate (posthumous) look because the Continental concierge, Charon. New solid members embody Gabriel Byrne as essential villain the Chancellor, who turns a whole city in opposition to the titular ballerina, Eve Macarro (de Armas); Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Nogi; Norman Reedus as Pine; and Catalina Sandino Moreno and David Castaneda in as-yet-undisclosed roles.

Attendees at Cinemacon in April have been handled to a teaser trailer; a lot of that footage appears to be within the trailer. We see Winston recruiting a younger orphaned Eve with some scenes of her studying boxing, martial arts, and gun and knife expertise. She’s searching for her father’s killer and naturally encounters some opposition, requiring her to struggle a number of nasty folks, some armed with flamethrowers. Lastly, she comes nose to nose with Wick, asking how she will be able to begin doing what he does. His response: “Seems to be like you have already got.”  De Armas seems to be fierce as hell and as much as the bodily challenges of her function. We’re wanting ahead to this one.

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina hits theaters on June 6, 2025.

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