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Lionsgate has released twelve new character posters for the upcoming John Wick spin-off film, Ballerina, showing off some new and familiar faces.
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Ballerina: 12 New Character Posters Tease New And Familiar Faces
Lionsgate has released twelve new character posters for the upcoming John Wick spin-off film, Ballerina, showing off some new and familiar faces.
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- Lionsgate unveils twelve new character posters for John Wick spin-off film Ballerina.
- Ballerina expands the John Wick universe with new and classic faces from the franchise.
- The film showcases the worldbuilding that made John Wick a standout in modern action cinema.
- Len Wiseman directs the first big screen John Wick spin-off, set to hit theaters in June 2025.
Ballerina will be here before we know it, and it's going to be the real test as to whether or not people are interested in John Wick-related movies without a lot of John Wick in them. It seems like it wouldn't be a hard sell; the worldbuilding of the John Wick movies was one of the big things that set them apart from other action movies of the mid-2010s. All of the footage we've seen from this thing looks excellent, and the cast is stacked as well. Lionsgate recently dropped a bunch of character posters, and with each poster, we also got a small description about the new and familiar faces we'll be seeing in Ballerina.
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- Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas) Orphaned after her father's murder, young Eve is taken to the Ruska Roma Ballet School, where she receives training in the art of combat. Her lessons turn her into a lethal assassin – and a formidable agent of revenge. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- The Director (Anjelica Huston) The formidable leader of the Ruska Roma who runs the infamous ballet school that doubles as a fearsome assassin training ground. To Eve, the Director is a surrogate mother whose lessons are as unforgiving as the assassin world she must survive. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- Lena (Catalina Sandino Moreno) Lena is an enigmatic character who reveals herself at the Prague Continental. Coldblooded and businesslike, Lena is part of the Chancellor's cult of assassins. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- Javier (David Casteñeda) Eve's father, Javier, saved Eve from certain death when he put up a heroic fight against a squad of assassins sent to kill them both. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- The Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne) Brutal and domineering, the Chancellor leads an army of cult-like killers. He rules a community of assassins in the Austrian mountains with an iron grip. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- Winston (Ian McShane) The iconic manager of the New York Continental. It was Winston who first delivered the young, orphaned Eve into the hands of The Director, arming her with both training at the Ruska Roma Ballet School and a gold coin that would later guide her search for the truth. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- John Wick (Keanu Reeves) The titular character in the John Wick Universe. John Wick first crosses paths with Eve during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- Charon (Lance Reddick) The famously stoic concierge of the New York Continental, and Winston's right-hand man. Charon provides various services to the assassins who stay at the hotel. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- Daniel Pine (Norman Reedus) A new face in the Wick World, Daniel Pine is a figure steeped in mystery. A fateful meeting with Eve and Pine at the Prague Continental sets off an explosive chain of events. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- Dex (Robert Maaser) Dex is part of the Chancellor's cult of assassins, a loyal soldier who engages in an epic flamethrower battle with Eve. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- Nogi (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) Nogi is an instructor at the Ruska Roma Ballet School. Fierce yet thoughtful, Nogi shows Eve the ways of an assassin. She teaches Eve to turn her weaknesses into her deadliest weapons. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
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- Katla Park (Choi Sooyoung) The daughter of the Ruska Roma's colleague Il Seong. Eve's first field mission is to protect Katla Park at the lavish Minus Eleven club. Courtesy of Lionsgate © 2025 Lionsgate
Ballerina Is The First Big Screen Spin-Off Of John Wick
It's still a little amazing that John Wick, the action movie in 2014, where the only real notable thing about it was that they managed to snag Reeves as its leading man, has turned into the franchise juggernaut it is today. That is what happens when you have good people working on a film from the beginning, because it would have been easy for John Wick to fade into obscurity with a ton of other disposable action movies. However, the creative team of director Chad Stahelski and screenwriter Derek Kolstad took the time to build a fascinating world around that action movie. The world of John Wick is the thing that everyone fell in love with, on top of the fact that Reeves is the best at this.
So it wasn't surprising that a sequel was greenlit, and it was even less surprising that in 2017, it was announced that a spin-off film and television show were in the works. The Continental focused on the hotel that plays a central part in the assassin world that John Wick moves in, and Ballerina will be something different. Len Wiseman was brought on to direct, with Wiseman & Shay Hatten, and Emerald Fennell working on the screenplay. Hatten also has a story credit. The cast includes de Armas and returning John Wick players Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, and Lance Reddick. We also have some new faces, including Norman Reedus, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Gabriel Byrne. A brief summary has been released: "Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, the film follows Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas), who is beginning her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma." From The World of John Wick: Ballerina is set to be released on June 6, 2025.
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