John Wick is back in action.
The official trailer for “John Wick: Chapter 4” has been released, featuring Keanu Reeves playing the beloved gun-fu action hero once again. While the plot had remained largely under wraps, a teaser trailer premiered at San Diego Comic-Con in July showed Wick in some familiar territory: his revenge tour.
In addition to Reeves, “John Wick: Chapter 4” stars Laurence Fishburne, Lance Reddick, Rina Sawayama, Donnie Yen, Shamier Anderson, Bill Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada, Scott Adkins and Clancy Brown. Ian McShane reprises his role as Winston, the manager of the Continental Hotel.
Reeves has worked with stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski on the “John Wick” franchise since the 2014 original. He last appeared as the renowned assassin in 2019’s “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,” which included such action set pieces as ninjas on motorcycles and samurais on horseback.
In August, Stahelski told Variety at the red carpet for “Day Shift” that the fourth “John Wick” installment will delve deeper into the mythology behind the Continental.
“I love a good myth,” Stahelski explained to Variety. “I don’t really believe — at least for the ‘John Wick’ movies — in a three-act structure. I believe in storytelling and leaving it. You know, we’ve always seen John Wick as Odysseus. So we take the time we need to tell the story. As long as we don’t fall asleep watching it, we keep it going. But I guess there is a bathroom limit.”
“John Wick: Chapter 4” hits theaters on March 24, 2023. Watch the full trailer below.