Lionsgate isn't giving up on a big-budget John Wick videogame.
In November 2022, Lionsgate said it was interested in turning the Keanu Reeves action film series John Wick into"." That's still very much the case: The company said in its most recent earnings call that there's no specific action on that front at this point, but it's eager to make it happen.
"We are continuing to have those conversations. There's a ton of energy around it," Lionsgate's motion picture group chairman Joe Drake said . The continued growth of John Wick's popularity"is very rare in any franchise, much less an action franchise," Drake added, and that"creates a lot of energy and excitement in the company.
"It does the same with filmmakers, and we're now moving across that franchise, not just in the AAA videogame space, but looking at what the regular cadence of spin-offs, television, [and] really growing that universe so that there is a steady cadence of a franchise that there's clear appetite by the audience."
While the John Wick videogame situation apparently hasn't changed between last November and now, the John Wick situation overall actually has, and significantly for the better. The November statement, when Lionsgate said it was"interested" and"fielding proposals," came before the release of John Wick 4, when executives may have been feeling concerns about potential franchise fatigue.
A big John Wick videogame may still be entirely aspirational at this point (although let us not forget that a smaller one has actually already happened:
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