Lionsgate To Expand ‘John Wick’ Universe With BALLERINA
If you think Lionsgate is done blowing your collective minds into the stratosphere and beyond with all things John Wick, you couldn’t be more wrong. Point in fact, with a comic book and a television series spin-off brewing, it turns out that the studio is ready to make the world of the titular assasin a whole lot bigger. The word now is Ballerina – such is the title of the script acquired by Lionsgate in a bidding war against other studios last week. The project is described as a tonal nod to Luc Besson’s 1990s action movie fervor with La Femme Nikita, but with a more pulpy, hyper-stylized treatment akin to the work of Quentin Tarantino or Matthew Vaughn. Story details haven’t been made public, save for the plot generally centered on a young woman raised as an assassin and subsequently sets out to murder her family’s equally trained killers. […]