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John Wick’s much anticipated spin-off TV series is set to premiere in September.
Producer Erica Lee has divulged the years-long speculation about the release of The Continental, a three-part television series which will focus on the hotel-for-assasins which Keanu Reeves’ Wick stays at in the movies.
At the centre of the storyline is a young Winston Scott, played by Ian McShane in the original film.
It will take place in 1975 New York as Scott faces demons from his past and he traverses a dangerous path in the big city’s underground scene in an attempt to take control of the hotel.
Speaking to Collider, Erica Lee divulged that the series will be available on Peacock in the US and on Prime Video internationally come September.
Revealed: John Wick Producer Erica Lee has revealed that spin-off TV series The Continental, which will focus on the hotel-for-assasins which Keanu Reeves’ Wick stays at in the movies will be released in September
Focus: At the centre of the storyline is a young Winston Scott, played by Ian McShane (pictured) in the original film. It will take place in 1975 New York as Scott faces demons from his past and he traverses a dangerous path in the big city’s underground scene in an attempt to take control of the hotel
She said: ‘The show runners actually came, we heard a lot of pitches and we were debating whether or not we wanted to do a similar timeline of John Wick or an alternate timeline.
‘We felt like doing a prequel, doing an alternate timeline gave us a lot of flexibility just in running parallel tracks.
‘But what I think people love so much about John Wick and the John Wick world is learning about the hotels and the Easter eggs.’
A younger Winston, who is close friends with Wick, is going to be played by Colin Woodell who is the manager of the Continental Hotel. Ayomide Adegun will star as a youthful Charon.
The producer went on to say that the team was ‘really excited’ to ‘dig deeper’ into the hotel and the characters within each movie as they always gave ‘so little’ to audiences.
She said the timeline and the setting of The Continental allows them to ‘deep dive’ and explore each element more deeply.
The cast for the show is star-studded, with it being reported last year that Katie McGrath, Ray McKinnon, Adam Shapiro, Mark Musashi and Marina Mazepa have all signed on, Deadline reported.
They join Mel Gibson, Colin Woodell, Peter Greene, Ayomide Adegun, Jeremy Bobb, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Jessica Allain, Mishel Prada, Nhung Kate and Ben Robson.
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Star role: A younger Winston, who is close friends with Wick, is going to be played by Colin Woodell (pictured) who is the manager of the Continental Hotel. Ayomide Adegun will star as a youthful Charon
Speaking to Collider, Erica Lee divulged that the series will be available on Peacock in the US and on Prime Video internationally come September
The producer went on to say that the team was ‘really excited’ to ‘dig deeper’ into the hotel (pictured) and the characters within each movie as they always gave ‘so little’ to audiences
The show follows Winston as he, ‘charts a deadly course through the New York’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the iconic hotel, which serves as the meeting point for the world’s most dangerous criminals,’ according to the show’s description.
McGrath has signed on to play The Adjudicator while McKinnon portrays Jenkins, Shapiro is Lemmy and Musahi and Mazepa will play High Table assassins Hansel & Gretel.
Gibson is playing a character named Cormac, with Peter Greene playing Uncle Charlie, Ayomide Adegun as Charon (played by Lance Reddick in the John Wick movies) and Jeremy Bobb as Mayhew.
The cast is rounded out with Hubert Point-Du Jour as Miles, Jessica Allain as Lou, Mishel Prada as KD, Nhung Kate as Yen and Ben Robson as Frankie.
Greg Coolidge (Wayne, Ride Along) and Kirk Ward (The Turkey Bowl, Wayne) will write the event series and serve as showrunners.
They will also executive produce with Albert Hughes (The Good Lord Bird, The Book of Eli), who will direct the first and third episodes while executive producing all three.
The cast for the show is star-studded, with it being reported last year that Katie McGrath, Ray McKinnon, Adam Shapiro, Mark Musashi and Marina Mazepa have all signed on, Deadline reported last year
The show follows Winston as he, ‘charts a deadly course through the New York’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the iconic hotel, which serves as the meeting point for the world’s most dangerous criminals,’ according to the show’s description (Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves and Ian McShane are pictured in John Wick 4)
Also executive producing are Charlotte Brändström (The Witcher), who will direct the second episode, along with Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, Chad Stahelski, Derek Kolstad, David Leitch, Shawn Simmons, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese and Marshall Persinger.
McGrath most recently played Lena Luthor on The CW’s Supergirl, while McKinnon is coming off Dopesick and creating the TV series Rectify.
Shapiro portrayed Mr. Shapiro on the Mindy Kaling Netflix series Never Have I Ever while Musashi appeared on Fear the Walking Dead, Iron Fist and The Last Ship.
Mazepa is also a contortionist who recently appeared on Malignant and was featured on NBC’s America’s Got Talent in 2019.
