SDCC showcases intense footage from ‘John Wick’ prequel spin-off collection ‘The Continental’

Los Angeles, July 22 – ‘The Continental: From the world of John Wick’ held its panel on the San Diego Comedian Con (SDCC) and showcased some intense footage giving us an concept about each its tone and motion.

Whereas the present will apparently have a considerably lighter tone, audiences mustn’t make the error that this can get MCU-fied because it nonetheless incorporates loads of wonderful motion, stuffed with blood and gore. Set on the earth of 1970’s New York Metropolis, the present will dive deeper into the franchise’s obscure prison mythology, exploring each the origins of the eponymous lodge for assassins in New York, in addition to how actor Ian McShane’s character Winston Scott grew to become the proprietor of its New York department.

As reported by Collider, the panel opened with a behind-the-scenes featurette, with a protracted intro primarily specializing in the setting and the brand new environments. The footage additionally showcased acquainted settings from the films such because the foyer and the rooftop of the Continental lodge.

The footage additionally centered on the present’s central characters corresponding to a younger Winston, the fearsome present continental supervisor Cormac, the at present anonymous concierge (Sallay Garnett), the wise-cracking Lemmy (Adam Shapiro), and a youthful model of Charon (Ayomide Adegun) – the fan-favourite concierge from the ‘John Wick’ movies who was portrayed by the late Lance Reddick.

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Not one of the actors or writers of the collection have been current as a result of ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, although the panel nonetheless befell with a number of members of the inventive workforce, together with govt producer and director Albert Hughes alongside govt producer Marshall Pershinger, motion director Larnell Stovall, manufacturing designer Drew Boughton, and editor Ron Rosen.

In keeping with Collider, whereas the John Wick movies have at all times had parts of humor, the featurette reveals that there might be a barely bigger emphasis on levity. The character of Lemmy specifically appears to be one thing of a comic book reduction determine.

The present’s first clip reportedly takes place in the course of the present’s first episode and depicts a heist gone fallacious, the place a personality named Frankie (Ben Robson) is caught stealing a mysterious field that the shadowy Excessive Desk covets.

The sequence moving into true John Wick spirit proceeds with an motion scene the place Frankie takes on a horde of goons in a close-by stairwell in an intense motion sequence crammed with lengthy takes, tons of blood, and really inventive kills.

Not solely does this complete sequence include the brutal and intensely nicely choreographed motion which the franchise is understood for, however the character of Frankie boasts a glance similar to Keanu Reeves’ personal killer, with a slick go well with, handgun and lengthy hair.