Producer Erica Lee reveals that Ballerina was not originally a John Wick spinoff, but explains how it was developed and expands the world.
Producer Erica Lee reveals that Ballerina was not originally a John Wick spinoff movie. Set between John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum and the recent John Wick: Chapter 4, the film will center on Ana de Armas’ Rooney, a skilled dancer and trained assassin seeking revenge against those who murdered her family. In addition to De Armas, Ballerina, premiering in 2024, will feature appearances by Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, and Anjelica Huston.
"Yeah. It's funny, Ballerina was sort of a long time coming, also. Shay Hatten was like an intern for Robert Downey Jr., I had a general meeting with him, he was a huge John Wick fan, and he wrote Ballerina in a vacuum, like as a spec script. He gave it to me, I want to say five years ago, and I read it and was like, ‘Okay.’ It was an assassin, Rooney, it was a female character, but we optioned it and we're like, ‘Let's back this into [the] John Wick universe.
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