Before the ballerina, the John Wick universe extended with this television program that fans wish to forget

It is a dangerous game to try to mix things with a franchise, especially since when you dare to fall back a screen universe in a television show. This is the problem that the “John Wick” property encountered when someone had the brilliant idea of giving us “the continental”, a prequelle series that explored how Winston (which is played by Ian McShane as older man in the films “John Wick”) has entered the titular hotel – a place where the assassins can launch anyone Has struck is forbidden to be forbidden to kill anyone on the night soil. But while “The Continental” was based on an interesting idea, its execution was anything but a success, the program earning a fairly severe response from criticism.

/ Jeremy Mathai of the film entitled “The Continental” A “returns without life, without joy and ultimately useless at the Wick-Verse” in his review, and although the series may have won 63% on rotten tomatoes, it is not widely considered as one of the most popular payments of the “John Wick” universe. That said, even the film derived with Ana de Armas “Ballerina” at 76%, but with a disappointing opening at the box office, which could put future stories that do not imply the Baba Yaga directly in danger. So, what is “the continental” so deceived (as opposed to “ballerina”, who managed to take at least a few steps)? Well, one of the founding fathers of this franchise – which, do not forget, started with a car and a dog – had a few words to say on this subject, just like the original Winston itself.

While promoting “Ballerina”, the Chad Stahelski (the director of the first four films “John Wick”) weighed on the failure of “The Continental” and suggested that he simply had the bad people who opened the doors to the eponymous establishment (as opposed to people responsible for making some of the best action films of all time). Addressing Hollywood Reporter, Stahelski theorized:

“A group of individuals thought they had the magic sauce. But if you take out the Iwanyk basil producing intuitiveness, if you remove [Keanu Reeves’] how to provide an original dialogue, and if you remove all the visuals I have in my head of Wong Kar-Wai, anime, [Sergio] Leone, Bernardo [Bertolucci]Or Andrei Tchaikovsky … So it’s not the same thing. “”

McShane also had a few words of choice on “the continental”, having declared that he had no intention of giving him a commitment. “It had nothing to do with our films. It’s just a question of a television company by taking advantage of the series and taking the possibility of [air?]”, He said to Movieweb.” They never asked us about anything, so why would I be interested in seeing him? I’m afraid that their arrogance to go out to exceed me, so I wish them good luck. “As it stands, the next on the successful list of spin-offs” John Wick “is the film Caine de Donnie Yen, which he also directed. I hope it will have a better chance of developing the “Wick” universe, and we can all forget the only stay that we had the legendary Hitman of the hotel.