“John Wick: Chapter 4” made a killing on the box office its first weekend — and the CEO of its studio, Lionsgate, is hungry for more.
“We’re not able to say goodbye to Keanu with this franchise,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Joe Drake told Deadline after the stellar result.
His optimistic remarks come despite a clear-cut ending for the title character within the fourth film.
“There’s lots of various things that we are able to do,” Drake said. “I’ve seen this movie five times within the last week.”
Drake and Lionsgate were surely moved by the franchise-record box office take of $137.5 million worldwide ($73 million domestic) its first weekend, and its 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes — one other high.
The Post awarded “John Wick: Chapter 4” 3.5 stars, calling it “100-miles-an-hour” and “a gorgeous sight to behold.”
Within the film, assassin Wick darts all over the world — Latest York, Berlin, Paris, Osaka — piling up bodies to finally free himself from the chains of the powerful crime syndicate the High Table. The bloody motion flick also stars Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane and Bill Skarsgård.
Reeves, 58, hasn’t dismissed the potential for a return for Wick, either.
“I don’t know, I suppose I’m going to must lean on never say never,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I mean, I wouldn’t do a John Wick film without [director] Chad Stahelski. We’d must see what that looked like. For me, it feels really right that John Wick finds peace.”
The actor also confirmed he’ll make an appearance as John Wick within the upcoming spinoff film “Ballerina,” starring Ana de Armas, that’s planned for release in 2024.
“I actually have a cameo in ‘Ballerina,’ that’s true,” he said onstage at SXSW.
But Reeves wouldn’t say if he might be a component of the spinoff Peacock miniseries, “The Continental” with Mel Gibson, which can debut in late 2023.
