Ian McShane, who stars in “Ballerina” was a guest on BBC’s The One Show and tackled the restart of production on the now-delayed film.
The veteran actor is implying that “Ballerina” was just not good enough and that they have to shoot entire new sequences with another director, Chad Stahelski. According to him, it’s not reshoots, it’s “newshoots.”
We’re going to Budapest. It’s not reshoots, it’s new shoots […] obviously, they’ve got to protect the franchise. We shot the movie a year ago. Chad [Stahelski] came in … and they want to make it better because you have to protect the franchise.
Len Wiseman (Live Free or Die Hard) is helming “Ballerina,” and I’m sure he’ll be keeping his directing credit, even after Stahelski, by all accounts, takes over the film and injects it with his well-known Wick-ian style of action.
Maybe it was a mistake to not have Stahelski take charge of this spin-off film. John Wick fans expect a certain type of choreographed action and maybe Wiseman, and the original script, just couldn’t deliver that.