John Wick 5 was officially confirmed in April 2025, but if you ask Chad Stahelski, it's not as guaranteed as you think.
"The studio would very much will it into existence, I'm sure, at some point. Look, they've been great and they've asked us to really try and we have a really good couple of ideas and we're going to try," he told The Hollywood Reporter in June 2025.
The John Wick 5 announcement was made by Lionsgate at CinemaCon in April 2025, alongside an animated prequel telling the story of the "Impossible Task" and confirmation that Donnie Yen would also direct the previously-announced Caine spin-off movie.
John Wick 5 was technically previously confirmed in May 2023, but there had been doubt over it after Keanu Reeves said "the character's dead" in March 2025 when addressing his potential return.
But now that Stahelski has confirmed that he is developing it, here's everything you need to know about John Wick 5.
John Wick 5 potential release date: When can we expect John Wick 5?
Even though John Wick 5 has now been confirmed, we don't yet have an official release date for the next movie as of June 2025.
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There was no mention of filming dates during the CinemaCon announcement, so we'll have to wait and see when we might see the fifth movie.
But if you really need a John Wick fix right now, then Ballerina is out now in cinemas. The new movie takes place between Chapters 3 and 4 in the timeline and while it's not focused on Wick, Keanu Reeves does make an appearance.
John Wick 5 cast: Is Keanu Reeves going to be in John Wick 5?
Despite where he's left at the end of Chapter 4, we can't imagine a John Wick movie without Keanu Reeves and it's been confirmed he's back.
How? Who knows. But Lionsgate boss Adam Fogelson promised that it'll be worth it.
"Keanu, Chad, Basil [Iwanyk] and Erica [Lee] would not return unless they had something truly phenomenal and fresh to say with these characters and this world," he said at CinemaCon in April 2025 (via Variety).
It seems Stahelski is still trying to work out how to continue the story from a fairly definitive Chapter 4 ending.
"It's a bit of a conundrum. Me and Mike Finch – the writer on 4 who's also writing 5 – we've got a pretty good story that I think is cool. Once we have a 50-page book, and if we're feeling it, we'll sit with Keanu and shape this thing," he told The Hollywood Reporter in June 2025.
Even though the movie is in development, we haven't yet had any official cast confirmations. We can make some guesses though based on where things left off at the end of Chapter 4.
Ian McShane will likely also return as Continental owner Winston, having been restored to his status by the end of the fourth movie, while Laurence Fishburne should be back as the Bowery King too.
Following his untimely passing, Lance Reddick won't be back as Charon, but we did see Reddick one final time as the faithful concierge though in Ballerina.
Outside of those, it's hard to tell who else could return. Maybe Donnie Yen as Wick's old friend Caine, assuming he survives the assassination attempt by Rina Sawayama's Akira as teased in Chapter 4's post-credit scene.
Given that he's now got his own spin-off movie, it's safe to say that Caine will survive that attempt. Sawayama has also been confirmed for the Caine movie, so we'll see if she survives that.
Shamier Anderson's mysterious Tracker could return too, and maybe we'll get an appearance by Ana de Armas's ballerina/assassin Eve Macarro after she survived her own movie.
John Wick 5 plot: How does John Wick 4 set up a fifth movie?
There's no avoiding it: John Wick looks to be dead at the end of Chapter 4. Following the duel with Caine, Wick appears to succumb to his injuries after telling Winston to take him home.
We then see Winston and the Bowery King at the grave of Wick, who is buried alongside his wife. However, we technically never see Wick's body, although he does slump over after the duel.
He'd been through a lot though that evening and morning, so maybe he was just tired. We can see a world where it's revealed Winston helped Wick fake his death so that he was finally free of the High Table.
Stahelski has even revealed that they filmed a different version of the ending that showed Wick did survive, which is why you see his beloved pup look around during that final scene (potentially at Wick).
Whether it's revealed Wick has faked his death remains to be seen though.
Stahelski has been open about the fact that there is a certain amount of ambiguity about Chapter 4's ending, which allows for Wick's return.
"I guess I'm going to have to lean on never say never," Reeves told EW after the release. "I mean, I wouldn't do a John Wick film without Chad Stahelski. We'd have to see what that looked like. For me, it feels really right that John Wick finds peace."
Talking to Collider in May 2022, Stahelski called the fourth movie a "good conclusion to an emotional thread that we've already had".
It leaves the fifth movie with a bit of a clean slate in terms of the story to tell, but right now, we don't have any idea what that story will be.
John Wick 5 trailer: Any John Wick 5 footage yet?
Unfortunately not, since filming hasn't even started on John Wick 5. You'll be waiting a while for any footage.
John Wick 5 does not yet have a release date.
Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
