Since 2014, Keanu Reeves has shot, stabbed, library guide’d, and horse’d dozens of gangsters and employed weapons to loss of life throughout three (happening 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 seeking to preserve the collection going any manner it will probably. 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 risk.
Throughout a latest earnings name earlier within the week, Lionsgate CEO John Feltheimer stated that the corporate had been taking a look at pitches for a online game primarily based on the movies. Whereas nothing’s set in stone but, he did tease that ought to a recreation come to fruition, it might most certainly be from a triple-A developer. “I don’t wish to get forward of myself right here…we now have been fielding proposals. We definitely are taken with transferring that ahead, however I don’t wish to say something extra about that at the moment.”
So far, the one online game to come back out of the franchise was 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 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 yr’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, on condition that the franchise is mainly constructed round him.
However the large query could be, which developer might convey John Wick’s mixture of kung fu and gunplay to a online game format and make them each really feel equally satisfying as a substitute of a shooter that simply occurs to have some not horrible melee fight? Tell us who suppose might make that occur within the feedback under.
[by way of IGN]
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