Donnie Yen joins Keanu Reeves in ‘John Wick 4’
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LOS ANGELES: Actor-filmmaker Donnie Yen, greatest recognized for his roles in movies equivalent to “xXx: Return of Xander Cage” and the “IP Man” franchise, is all set to star with Keanu Reeves in Chad Stahelski-directed “John Wick 4”.
Yen will play an previous good friend of Reeves’ character of super-assassin John Wick within the Lionsgate film.
The associates share an identical historical past and most of the enemies, based on Deadline.
The actor, who is known for his distinctive fashion of display screen fight, is likely one of the most profitable actor-filmmakers from the East.
“John Wick 4” is written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch whereas Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee and Stahelski are producing the movie, with Reeves and Louise Rosner connected as government producers.
Filming begins this 12 months on location in France, Germany and Japan.
“We are very fortunate to have Donnie Yen be part of the franchise.
I’m wanting ahead to working with him on this thrilling new position,” Stahelski mentioned.
The filmmaker has directed all of the three earlier movies within the Reeves-led franchise — “John Wick” (2014), “John Wick: Chapter 2” (2017) and “John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum” (2019).
