'John Wick' spinoff series 'The Continental' to premiere on Peacock in September 2023
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA : We all knew that 'The Continental' would be released on Peacock some time this year. Now, in a recent interview with Collider, 'John Wick' producer Erica Lee said the show would debut "in September." The three-part series, which is set in 1970s New York, will have episodes that are a whopping 90 minutes long. 'The Continental' stars Colin Woodell as a young Winston Scott — Ian McShane’s character in the films — and Ayomide Adegun, who will portray a young Charon, based on the late Lance Reddick’s character in the 'John Wick' franchise.
Prior to switching to Peacock last August, 'The Continental' was being developed for Starz. Mel Gibson, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Jessica Allain, Mishel Prada, Nhung Kate, Ben Robson, Peter Greene, Jeremy Bobb, Katie McGrath, Ray McKinnon, Adam Shapiro, Mark Musashi, and Marina Mazepa also appear in the series in addition to Woodell and Adegun. The series is being directed by Albert Hughes and Charlotte Brändström, with John Wick director Chad Stahelski serving as executive producer.
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"It's young Winston and young Lance Reddick— young Charon," Lee said during her interview with Collider regarding what fans can expect from the spin-off series. "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."
She added, "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 [Episode] 1. I think it's a good balance. 1 and 3 have an enormous amount of action. 2 is a little bit more story. That's like how it breaks out structurally, but there's plenty of action."
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