Since 2014, Keanu Reeves has shot, stabbed, library ebook’d, and horse’d dozens of gangsters and employed weapons to dying throughout three (occurring 4) John Wick movies. Whereas we all know that the franchise will proceed with the upcoming prequel collection The Continental, and there’ll be one other movie in a few years (plus the Ballerina spinoff movie reportedly led by Ana de Armas), Lionsgate is trying to hold the collection going any manner it could actually. And on this period of IP and franchises hopping from one medium over to a different, which means video video games aren’t out of the realm of chance.
Throughout a current earnings name earlier within the week, Lionsgate CEO John Feltheimer stated that the corporate had been pitches for a online game based mostly on the movies. Whereas nothing’s set in stone but, he did tease that ought to a sport come to fruition, it could probably be from a triple-A developer. “I don’t need to get forward of myself right here…we now have been fielding proposals. We actually are keen on transferring that ahead, however I don’t need to say something extra about that presently.”
To this point, the one online game to return out of the franchise was John Wick Hex, a 2019 timeline technique sport from developer Bithell Video games that served as a prequel to the movies. Past that, Reeves himself is not any stranger to video games: outdoors of taking part in Johnny Silverhand in 2020’s Cyberpunk 2077, he performed Neo within the live-action cutscenes of 2003’s Enter the Matrix, and once more in final 12 months’s The Matrix Awakens tech demo. And even when the sport doesn’t star him, it’s seemingly that he’d present up in some capability, provided that the franchise is mainly constructed round him.
However the massive query could be, which developer may carry John Wick’s mixture of kung fu and gunplay to a online game format and make them each really feel equally satisfying as an alternative of a shooter that simply occurs to have some not horrible melee fight? Tell us who assume may make that occur within the feedback beneath.
[via IGN]
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