The trailer for “Ballerina” is lastly right here! Oh, sorry, my mistake. The film is not truly known as “Ballerina.” It is known as “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina,” and earlier than we go any additional, let me simply say that title stinks. Yeesh! Okay, now that that is out of the way in which, we’ll be calling the film simply “Ballerina.” The brand new movie is about within the John Wick universe, and introduces Ana de Armas as one more highly-skilled murderer in a world filled with highly-skilled assassins. However that is not all — Keanu Reeves’ John Wick pops up within the trailer, too! Now, Reeves’ presence may result in some confusion, because the finish of the unimaginable “John Wick: Chapter 4” actually made it appear to be our boy John was useless (spoiler, I suppose? The film got here out a yr in the past, so I believe we’re previous spoiler territory at this level).
So how is John Wick again on this trailer? Has he been raised from the useless? Nope! As you may’ve guessed for your self by now, “Ballerina” is about within the midst of the “John Wick” film sequence timeline. In truth, we have truly recognized this for a while. Final yr, Reeves confirmed as a lot to Collider, saying: “[I]t takes place between Chapter Three and Chapter 4, which is good.”
However this, after all, raises some questions. Like … when, precisely does it happen? And at what level does Ana de Armas’ character, Eve Macarro, meet John Wick?
The place does Ballerina happen within the John Wick timeline?
The “Ballerina” trailer truly offers us some clues concerning the timeline. Within the trailer, we see de Armas’ character performing ballet on a stage. Later, she watches from the shadows as John Wick descends a staircase. Strolling alongside him is none aside from Anjelica Huston. Followers of the “John Wick” sequence will acknowledge this as a part of a scene that takes place in “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.” In that movie, John Wick travels to a theater to fulfill with Huston’s character, often called the Director. Through the course of that scene, we see a heavily-tattooed ballerina acting on a stage. The implication right here is that the tattooed ballerina we noticed in that movie is de Armas’ character. (Facet-note: the ballerina character was performed by Unity Phelan in “John Wick: Chapter 3,” but it surely’s comprehensible that the filmmakers would need to recast the function with a much bigger star like Ana de Armas for this spin-off movie).
So it is clear that not less than one scene in “Ballerina” takes place through the occasions of “John Wick: Chapter 3.” What about the remainder of the film? Properly, that is a bit of murky. When you’ll recall, “John Wick: Chapter 3” ends with John being shot by Ian McShane’s Winston (who additionally seems in “Ballerina”) and falling off a roof. He is taken to the underground lair of The Bowery King, performed by Laurence Fishburne, to recuperate. To start with of “John Wick: Chapter 4,” John has healed from his wounds and heads off from New York Metropolis to Morocco on his quest for revenge. Now, that is only a wild stab at nighttime, but when I needed to guess, I would say the scene on the finish of the “Ballerina” trailer, the place de Armas’ Eve talks with John Wick, takes place in some unspecified time in the future throughout John’s time in NYC earlier than he jets off to Morocco. However once more, that is only a guess. It might be set anyplace! And that is assuming the scene even performs out within the closing movie because it does within the trailer — this might all be a case of misleading enhancing.
We’ll know extra when “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina” (ugh, that title) shoots its method into theaters on June 6, 2025.