Since 2014, Keanu Reeves has shot, stabbed, library ebook’d, and horse’d dozens of gangsters and employed weapons to loss of life throughout 3 (occurring four) John Wick movies. Whilst we all know that the franchise will proceed with the approaching prequel collection The Continental, and there’ll be any other movie in a few years (plus the Ballerina derivative movie reportedly led by means of Ana de Armas), Lionsgate is having a look to stay the collection going any manner it will probably. And on this generation of IP and franchises hopping from one medium over to any other, that implies video video games aren’t out of the world of chance.
All through a contemporary profits name previous within the week, Lionsgate CEO John Feltheimer stated that the corporate have been having a look at pitches for a online game in accordance with the movies. Whilst not anything’s set in stone but, he did tease that are supposed to a recreation come to fruition, it will in all probability be from a triple-A developer. “I don’t wish to get forward of myself right here…we have now been fielding proposals. We indisputably are all for shifting that ahead, however I don’t wish to say the rest extra about that presently.”
Up to now, the one online game to come back out of the franchise was once John Wick Hex, a 2019 timeline technique recreation from developer Bithell Video games that served as a prequel to the movies. Past that, Reeves himself isn’t any stranger to video games: outdoor of enjoying Johnny Silverhand in 2020’s Cyberpunk 2077, he performed Neo within the live-action cutscenes of 2003’s Input the Matrix, and once more in closing 12 months’s The Matrix Awakens tech demo. And even supposing the sport doesn’t megastar him, it’s most probably that he’d display up in some capability, for the reason that the franchise is principally constructed round him.
However the giant query can be, which developer may convey John Wick’s mixture of kung fu and gunplay to a online game layout and lead them to each really feel similarly fulfilling as an alternative of a shooter that simply occurs to have some no longer horrible melee struggle? Tell us who assume may make that occur within the feedback beneath.
[by way of IGN]
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