The John Wick Prequel Series Just Got A Major Streaming Update
The John Wick prequel The Continental will stream on Amazon Prime Video in international markets, and on Peacock in the United States.
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The John Wick prequel event series The Continental starring Mel Gibson has found a home for international TV viewers hoping to see it. Amazon Prime Video will stream the series in all international markets outside of the United States, the Middle East region, and Israel, according to ComicBook.com. The news comes just months after the announcement that, for viewers in the United States, the event series had moved from the Starz cable channel to Peacock for a 2023 premiere.
The Continental will be headlined by a rare television appearance of Oscar winner Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon, Braveheart) playing a new character named Cormac, whose backstory is not yet known. The series will be presented as a three-night special event, rather than a weekly series.
The series is set in 1975, and will feature a young Winston Scott (Colin Woodell), the manager of the Continental Hotel in New York City, which serves as “neutral ground” for hitmen and other professionals in the criminal underworld. Winston was played by Ian McShane (Deadwood, Game of Thrones) in the John Wick films. Colin Woodell is best known for his roles in Ambulance, HBO’s The Flight Attendant, and Unfriended: Dark Web.
The series also stars Ayomide Adegun as a younger version of Charon, the Continental desk clerk played by Lance Reddick in the films. Other cast members include Katie McGrath (Supergirl’s Lena Luthor) as The Adjudicator, Ben Robson as Frankie, Hubert Point-Du Jour as Miles, Jessica Allain as Lou, Mishel Prada as KD, Nhung Kate as Yen, and Peter Greene as young Uncle Charlie.
The Continental is the first planned spinoff from Lionsgate, which plans an entire “John Wick Universe” based around the exploits of Keanu Reeves’ hit-man character introduced in the first John Wick film in 2014, which went on to earn over $80 million worldwide. In all, the three Wick films have grossed nearly $580 million worldwide. Lionsgate owns Starz, and it is not clear why they moved the series to Peacock, which is owned by NBCUniversal.
Another planned John Wick spinoff, a movie titled Ballerina and dir3eected by Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard), is also in production, with Ana de Armas (Knives Out, No Time to Die) in the lead as a female assassin out for revenge against the person who killed her family. It is due for release sometime in late 2023.
John Wick 4 is due to release in theaters on March 24, 2023. Reeves, McShane, Reddick, and Laurence Fishburne are all set to return. Donnie Yen (Rogue One), Bill Skarsgård (It), Clancy Brown (Starship Troopers), Scott Adkins (The Expendables), and Hiroyuki Sanada are all joining the cast for the film, which will be the longest John Wick film yet, according to reports.
After The Continental, Mel Gibson will begin work on the long-awaited Lethal Weapon 5, which will reunite him with Danny Glover and other cast members of the popular action film series. The film was delayed after the death of director Richard Donner.
Greg Coolidge and Kirk Ward will serve as writers, showrunners, and executive producers on The Continental.
