Last month, it had been reported that Lionsgate‘s John Wick spinoff “Ballerina,” starring Ana de Armas, had been delayed by a year from June 7, 2024 to June 6, 2025. Supposedly, ‘Wick’ director Chad Stahelski is now working with “Ballerina” director Len Wiseman on “additional action sequences” for the movie.
This news had me thinking about rumors from last October, started by X account Empire City, that detailed the film as a “mess” and how they basically had to re-shoot the entire thing from scratch. Stahelski will be overseeing it all. Good to luck to all.
Deadline is now reporting that David Castañeda & Sharon Duncan-Brewster have been added to the cast of “Ballerina.” So, they’re adding new characters as well? This movie sounds like a real mess. Stahelski really has his work cut out of for him.
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, has taken over the film and injected it with his well-known Wick-ian style of action. Maybe it was a mistake to not have Stahelski, from the very start, 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.