The show focuses on the inner workings of the film franchise’s Titanic Hotel, a refuge for assassins.
Veteran actor Mel Gibson has been cast to play a key role in the “John Wick” prequel series “The Continental” for Starz and Lionsgate Television.
The show, originally ordered in 2018, focuses on the inner workings of the film franchise’s Titanic Hotel, a refuge for assassins.
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It will trace the origins behind hotel-killers through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott, who is dragged into a 1975 New York City hell-rape to confront a past he thought he was will be left behind.
“Winston charts a deadly course through New York’s mysterious underworld in a sly attempt to seize the iconic hotel, which serves as the meeting point for the world’s most dangerous criminals,” the plot reads.
According to time limitGibson will play a new character named Cormack, but no further details are available about his role.
“The Continental” will be a three-night event series, but there is currently no set premiere date.
Greg Coolidge and Kirk Ward are writing the series and will serve as showrunners as well as executive producers.
Chad Stahelski, Derek Kolstad, David Leach, Shawn Simmons, Paul Wernicke, and Rhett Reese are all executive producers, as well as Basil Ivanick and Erica Lee of Thunder Road Pictures. “The Continental” will be the first series based on the Keanu Reeves-led “John Wick” film trilogy, which has grossed approximately US$600 million worldwide.
All three films are written by Kolstad and directed by Stahelski. They are currently filming “John Wick: Chapter Four”, in which Reeves reprises the character of his killer. Actor Ian McShane plays an older version of Winston in the movies.
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