The Continental: From the World of John Wick: launch date, trailer, solid, plot, and extra

The Continental resort will quickly re-open its doorways to followers of the John Wick films with a brand new prequel TV collection referred to as The Continental, which is coming to Peacock, NBC Common’s streaming platform in September, 2023.

The John Wick franchise, which stars beloved actor Keanu Reeves as the enduring murderer thrust out of retirement in search of vengeance, was solely meant to be one movie. However now the John Wick universe boasts 4 chapters (learn our information to watch the John Wick movies in order) with extra on the best way. We will sit up for spin-off film Ballerina in 2024, which follows the story of ballerina-assassin Rooney (performed by Ana de Armas) who hunts those that killed her household. In addition to a fifth film instalment, which has been all however confirmed by Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer.

The Continental shall be set in an alternate historical past within the Nineteen Seventies and over three episodes it will concentrate on a younger model of Ian McShane’s Winston, the supervisor of The Continental resort within the John Wick films. This chain og motels world wide provide a impartial territory for members of the legal underworld, equivalent to assassins like Wick, to do enterprise or conceal from the authorities. Beneath you will discover all the things you must find out about The Continental, together with its launch date, solid, plot particulars, and extra. Main spoilers incoming for the John Wick franchise, so flip again in the event you’re not caught up on the 4 movies.

The Continental launch date

The first episode of The Continental will arrive on September 22, 2023. The second episode lands every week in a while September 29, 2023 and the third and closing episode every week after that on October 6, 2023. 

The Continental will launch completely on Peacock within the US, and Prime Video in non-US areas (per Deadline) aside from Israel and the Center East.

The Continental trailer

The official trailer for The Continental arrived in mid-August, 2023. It offers us a tantalizing take a look at what we will anticipate from the present, together with plenty of motion, beautifully-choreographed battle scenes and a simmering feud between warring factions.

From what we will inform, Mel Gibson’s character Cormac is the supervisor of The Continental resort within the Nineteen Seventies and tells a younger Winston (Colin Woodell) that he must get his home so as after his brother Frankie steals one thing that belongs to him. ”This sacred institution wields power beyond your imagination,” Gibson’s Cormac says. “Your brother took something from me. Find him, because if you don’t, I’ll bring the weight of this whole institution down on you both.”

The John Wick franchise all the time seemed beautiful and we’re delighted to see The Continental is about to be simply as aesthetically-pleasing, with Nineteen Seventies styling, attractive sweeping scenes of New York Metropolis and The Continental and, after all, loads of darkish scenes drenched in neon gentle.

The Continental solid

Amazon Studios has launched a handy guide to the solid of The Continental.

• Colin Woodell as younger Winston Scott 
• Ayomide Adegun as Charon 
• Peter Greene as younger Uncle Charlie 
• Mel Gibson as Cormac 
• Nhung Kate as Yen 
• Katie McGrath as The Adjudicator  
• Jessica Allain as Lou 
• Jeremy Bobb as Mayhew 
• Adam Shapiro as Lemmy 
• Claire Cooper as Mrs. Davenport 
• Ray McKinnon as Jenkins 
• Ben Robson as Frankie 
• Marina Mazepa as Gretel 
• Mark Mushashi as Hansel 
• Mishel Prada as KD 
• Hubert Level-Du Jour as Miles 

Given The Continental is a prequel, Keanu Reeves will not be showing within the small-screen collection. So, for these of you holding out hope for a John Wick cameo, you will be sorely dissatisfied.

The Continental will happen in an alternate historical past 1975, which means that each current day resort proprietor Winston and his trusted concierge Charon shall be performed by youthful actors, Colin Woodell and Ayomide Adegun, somewhat than Ian MacShane and Lance Reddick. One other of the present’s largest bulletins is the involvement of Mel Gibson who will play a personality referred to as Cormac, the supervisor of The Continental resort within the Nineteen Seventies.

In the latest press launch from Amazon, extra particulars have emerged about supporting characters, together with KD and Mayhew, performed by Mishel Prada and Jeremy Bobb, two NYPD detectives. Frankie, Winston’s brother who drags him into the occasions of the collection, is performed by Ben Robson. And Nhung Kate performs his spouse Yen, a fierce fighter in her personal proper who would do something to guard him.

Lastly, two extra notable characters are Lou, performed by Jessica Allain, and Miles, performed by Hubert Level-Du Jour, a brother and sister duo who run the dojo their late father left them. From what we will inform from The Continental trailer, it appears like Winston will crew up with Lou and Miles to tackle Cormac.

In the case of the crew behind this spin-off, the collection has been created by Greg Collidge (Wayne, Trip Alongside) and Kirk Ward (Wayne). Govt producers embody Albert Hughes, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, Chad Stahelski, Derek Kolstad, David Leitch, Shawn Simmons, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, and Marshall Persinger. 

Hughes may also take the directorial chair for the primary and third episode, with Charlotte Brändström (The Rings of Power) helming the second. 

The Continental plot

Whereas The Continental is a prequel collection, it is also a completely new spin-off from the same old story focusing as a substitute on a younger Winston, who within the John Wick movies we all know and love owns the New York Metropolis resort residence.

Nevertheless, in The Continental he would not personal the resort – at the very least not in the beginning. As a substitute, it is owned by Cormac (Mel Gibson) who summons Winston to seek out his brother, Frankie, as he is stolen one thing vital to him. 

Curiously, The Continental may also discover real-world occasions, together with the Nice Rubbish Strike and the rise of the American Mafia. Regardless of being a piece of fiction, then, it appears the collection will draw closely from, or be impressed by, true occasions.

Chatting with Fandom in 2020, Chad Stahelski, stuntman turned director on the John Wick franchise, mentioned: “The angles they’re working on The Continental TV show right now is a different perspective on the whole world. It’s coming at it from different characters’ point of views and what the breadth of the world is actually. Whereas in John Wick, I’m following one time period, literally almost a week in the life of one man, where everything spirals out of control.”

The Continental: John Wick timeline defined

As we have talked about, The Continental is a prequel set 40 years earlier than the John Wick movies we have come to know and love. Chatting with Deadline, Lionsgate TV’s Kevin Beggs mentioned: “Because we’re way back in time, way back pre-John Wick and even pre-young John Wick, that character is not finding his way into the universe. We are in the John Wick universe, but it’s way back in time. Think about the Game of Thrones prequels because you don’t know any of the players, but you do know the world.”

Given John Wick screenwriter Derek Kolstad beforehand revealed that Keanu’s character was initially meant to be a 75-year-old man (per Variety), we may nicely have seen Wick seem in some guise. Nevertheless, with the character finally written as a 35-year previous, he will not have been born by the point of the occasions of The Continental. So, as we mentioned earlier, do not anticipate him to function.

In the end, so far as the John Wick timeline is anxious, it’s an origin story of The Continental’s deep historical past. It is also a chance for Winston and several other different characters from the franchise’s origin tales to be explored and maybe present a extra detailed look into how their characters got here to be within the John Wick mythos.

It is unclear if future seasons shall be greenlit, if The Continental will stay a miniseries, or how the TV collection will tie into John Wick Chapter 4. If it is even half as profitable as the unique John Wick movie was, nonetheless, you could be certain Peacock will renew the prequel present for extra installments.

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