The John Wick movies have always had a soft spot for dogs, but it was in John Wick 3 that they got in on the action thanks to Sofia's (Halle Berry) trained pets. After they helped deliver some very memorable sequences in the film, they do not return, but John Wick 4 's Mr. Nobody (Shamier Anderson) brings another dog into the mix. John Wick 5 was once viewed as a sure thing, but it has become anything but the past few years. Here is what the franchise's director, star, and studio have said about the next John Wick movie. Ian McShane. John Wick is a 2014 action thriller starring Keanu Reeves as the title character, a retired hitman who seeks vengeance against a mobster's son and his cronies for stealing his car and killing his puppy, a final gift from his recently deceased wife. The film was directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch (both were veteran stunt Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with action franchise smash John Wick: Chapter 4. The fourth installment in the Chad Stahelski Slash Film’s Vanessa Armstrong said John Wick 4 is “the best movie” she’s seen in ages. "It's like a Greek epic that's, yes, full of unparalleled action (and guns), and the set pieces are Every couple of years an action movie would come along that instantly becomes a gamechanger in the genre and the template to be followed for the next decade or so – John Wick was such a film But early on, "Chapter 3" sets the bar so high that the upcoming "John Wick: Chapter 4" apparently needed to become one of the greatest action movies ever (seriously, read /Film's review by Jacob Delayed two years by the pandemic, John Wick: Chapter 4, the latest installment in what Rolling Stone called “the last great action-movie franchise,” arrives March 24, 2023, almost four years k26X.