{"id":150057,"date":"2025-06-01T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150057\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T18:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:02:10","slug":"john-wick-spin-off-ballerina-and-switch-2-launches-whats-coming-up-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150057\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wick spin-off Ballerina and Switch 2 launches &#8211; what&#8217;s coming up this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s been a few years since we last saw John Wick, but fans will be gearing up for <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ballerina<\/b>, the latest film in the franchise, which comes out on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Set between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 &#8211; Parabellum and John Wick: Chapter 4, the film follows Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas), a ballerina-turned-assassin who uncovers secrets from her family&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s directed by Len Wiseman, who described it in press notes as &#8220;kind of the opposite of John Wick&#8217;s story. Wick is trying to get out of his life as an assassin; Eve is wanting in &#8211; she wants to be a killer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keanu Reeves, who plays the title character in the John Wick franchise, is also starring in Ballerina &#8211; but the extent of his involvement is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/keanu-reeves-john-wick-wick-is-pain-documentary-1236211848\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to The Hollywood Reporter, external<\/a>, he recently said he spent only \u201ceight days\u201d on set of the new film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cBut it was fun to play the role again and I&#8217;m excited for people to see the film. It&#8217;s in the spirit of John Wick and has new characters and opens up some stuff, so hopefully people like it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a few years since we last saw John Wick, but fans will be gearing up for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-150057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114609425303608915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}