First poster drops for John Wick spinoff The Continental

The first poster has dropped for the first of the John Wick spinoffs, The Continental, a new series that will focus on the world of John Wick… long before John Wick.

Taking the franchise back to the 70s, the first of the John Wick spinoffs is set to be the highly anticipated The Continental series which will take us back to see how Winston Scott, played in the movies by Ian McShane, first becomes the manager of the now iconic New York hotel from the series. In the series Colin Woodell will play young Winston and Ayomide Adegun will play Charon, played in the movies by the late Lance Reddick.

So, we’ve learned that the series will be a three-night event on Peacock – Amazon in international regions – and each part will be an hour and a half long, giving us three mini-movies totaling a four-and-a-half-hour long adventure.

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Producer Erica Lee recently said of the new series: “It’s young Winston and young Lance Reddick, young Charon,” she says.

“The showrunners actually came, we heard a lot of pitches and we were debating whether or not we wanted to do a similar timeline of John Wick or an alternate timeline. We felt like doing a prequel, doing an alternate timeline gave us a lot of flexibility just in running parallel tracks. But also what I think people love so much about John Wick and the ‘John Wick’ world are learning about the hotels and the Easter eggs.

“We give so little about each character and about the hotel in each movie that I think people were really excited to learn more and dig deeper into The Continental like, what does the cleaner there look like? What is the staff like? How do you get into The Continental? How are the gold coins made? So, with this timeline and this setting, we’re allowed to do a really deep dive into that and explore a lot of that stuff.”

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We all know that one of the things the John Wick movies is renowned for is the awesome fight and stunt choreography, but will the series have all that too?

“I think in TV, generally, it’s more character-based, but there is a lot of action in the shows. I mean, we open with the action sequence in One. I think it’s a good balance. One and Three have an enormous amount of action. Two is a little bit more story. That’s like how it breaks out structurally, but there’s plenty of action,” says Lee.

My guess is that now we have a poster, a trailer or first look is bound to be coming… so keep it here for all the goodness still to come, Nerds and Nerdettes.

The Continental will explore the origin behind the hotel-for-assassins, which increasingly has become the centerpiece of the John Wick universe. This will be accomplished through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott (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 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.

The series will drop later this year and we’ll keep you posted as we hear more…

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