Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves unveiled footage from the upcoming ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’  and left an audience of some 3,000 cinema theatre owners charmed at this year’s CinemaCon. 

Reeves appeared on stage during a Lionsgate presentation and concluded the event with attendees cheering “you’re the man!”

The screening of the film’s footage enthused viewers with a vengeful Wick leaving his knuckles bleeding as he punches a wooden post, with co-actor Laurence Fishburne hyping him along the way.

As Reeves’ character kills his enemies, a voiceover emerges and says- “I want you to find peace, John, but the only path this leads to is death.”

The trailer concludes with Reeves in an intense fighting sequence, battling two enemies with merciless nunchucks moves. 

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ is set to shatter records of the previous films in the franchise. In 2014, the first ‘John Wick’ amassed a global box office collection of $86 million. Its sequel, ‘John Wick: Chapter 2’ earned $171.5 million in 2017. In 2019, the third installment of the film ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum’, garnered $327.3 million at the box office. 

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’, slated to release on May 23, 2023, stars Keanu Reeves, Rina Sawayama, Lance Reddick, Shamier Anderson.  Donnie Yen, Scott Adkins, Bill Skarsgård, Clancy Brown and Hiroyuki Sanada. 

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However, Halle Berry, who essayed the character of Sofia Al-Azwar in the franchise’s third installment, will not be starring in the upcoming film. 

“Sofia’s not in the next ‘John Wick’ movie,” Berry told IGN earlier this year, hinting at a spinoff movie for the blonde assassin.   “There could possibly be a Sofia … her own movie. So she might not be in ‘John Wick,’ but she might be doing her own thingy-thingy,” Berry said. 

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Stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski expressed how anxious he was about making the film’s action and stunt sequences better than the ones that have been done before, including a scene of samurais on horseback.

“There’s been a couple days where I’ve decided to do number four and I’ve woken up in a cold sweat going, ‘Horses! How do I beat horses?’ I have no f*cking idea to tell you the truth,” Stahelski told Collider.