The runtime of John Wick: Chapter 4 has been revealed, and it’s the longest of the franchise by far. Prepare your bladders.
Tick tock, Mr. Wick. Each installment of the John Wick franchise has been longer than the last, and the latest chapter will continue that trend. Collider has revealed that the runtime for John Wick: Chapter 4 will span a whopping 169 minutes. Maybe we shouldn’t order that large beverage after all.
For reference, the runtime of the first John Wick movie was 101 minutes, followed by John Wick: Chapter 2 at 122 minutes and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum at 131 minutes. While a 169 minute runtime may seem excessive for an action movie, I’m sure audiences are down for every single minute of Keanu Reeves action that John Wick: Chapter 4 can give us.
A new poster for John Wick: Chapter 4 was unveiled earlier today to launch Wick Week, with the promise that we’ll get a new trailer for the movie on Thursday. So be sure to check back on JoBlo for that. What we’ve seen of the film looks as fantastic as ever, and Keanu Reeves has teased that there will be a lot of car action. “We took the car driving to the next level, which I really enjoy,” Reeves said. “There’s 180s, forward-into-reverse 180s, reverse-into-forward 270s, drifting … [It] was really fun to get a chance to learn those skills, and to play.“
In addition to John Wick: Chapter 4, we’ve got several John Wick-related projects in the works. The first John Wick spinoff will be Ballerina, which will star Ana de Armas as a young woman with killer skills who sets out to get revenge when hitmen kill her family. Reeves is set to appear in the spinoff among other John Wick supporting characters. There’s also The Continental, a three-night special-event TV series that will explore “the origin behind the hotel-for-assassins, a centerpiece of the John Wick universe, through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott (Colin Woodell) who is dragged into the Hell-scape of a 1975 New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind. Winston charts a deadly course through the New York’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the iconic hotel, which serves as the meeting point for the world’s most dangerous criminals.” John Wick: Chapter 4 will debut in theaters on March 24th.
What do you think of the runtime for John Wick: Chapter 4? Is it too long?