British actor Bill Nighy has signed on for a job in Caine, Lionsgate’s John Wick spinoff being directed by martial arts grasp Donnie Yen.
Yen, who appeared because the titular blind murderer in John Wick: Chapter 4, can also be toplining the function, which is now in manufacturing in Budapest and Hong Kong.
Additionally on the decision sheet are Mason Thames (The Black Telephone) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Issues) in addition to Rina Sawayama, who’s reprising her position as Akira, who in Wick 4 labored within the hitman resort that was overrun by assassins and blamed Caine for the dying of her father.
Mattson Tomlin, author of the upcoming The Batman Half II and the difference of the Keanu Reeves-created comedian e-book BRZRKR, wrote the script with Michael McGrale.
The story follows the occasions of Wick 4, with Caine having been free of his obligations to The Excessive Desk, the council that runs a worldwide empire managed by the elite crime households. However, guess what? Simply when he thought he was out…
Producing the function are Wick stalwarts Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee of Thunder Highway shingle, and John Wick filmmaker Chad Stahelski, who produces by means of his 87Eleven Leisure manufacturing banner. John Wick himself, Keanu Reeves can also be producing as is John Saunders may also produce.
Yen is an govt producer on the challenge together with Courtney Brock.
Nighy is among the extra recognizable British thespians of stage and display identified for his breakout work in Love Really, romantic drama About Time, and the Underworld films. This summer season he will likely be seen in the collection Trip or Die reverse Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham and can star reverse Helena Bonham Carter in Hugo Blick’s California Avenue for the BBC.
He’s repped by UTA, Unbiased Expertise Group and Jackoway Austen.
