John Wick director Chad Stahelski has a long list of upcoming projects to choose from, from Netflix’s Black Samurai to a Ghost of Tsushima adaptation, Rainbow Six with Michael B. Jordan, John Wick 5, Classified, Vice City, and much more.
With John Wick: Chapter 4 dominating the box office, this week’s general cultural conversation has largely turned to a single question: “Is John Wick dead?” The movie purposefully doesn’t answer that question, with writers Michael Finch and Shay Hatten telling Polygon that viewers are meant to interpret John Wick 4’s finale however they want.
Releasing studio Lionsgate has already given John Wick: Chapter 5 a green light for production, though, and Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Joe Drake recently told Deadline the studio is “not ready to say goodbye to Keanu with this franchise.” Given its success, there likely will be a John Wick 5, but series director Chad Stahelski tells Polygon he isn’t ready to commit to it as his next project — and that in fact, he hasn’t confirmed what his next project will be.
Stahelski currently has a whopping 11 different projects listed on IMDb.com as “in development” or “in pre-production.” Classified, for instance, is a thriller built around a vault of secret relics akin to the one seen at the end of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. New Line Cinema won an auction for that movie in 2021, with Stahelski attached to produce and direct under his 87Eleven Entertainment banner.
