Keanu Reeves insists he hasn’t paid consideration to how many individuals have been killed within the “John Wick” franchise.

“John’s simply centered on one factor at a time,” Reeves advised me on the “Ballerina” premiere on Tuesday. “He doesn’t have a look at that. He’s simply attempting to outlive.”

However Chad Stahelski, who directed the primary 4 “John Wick” films and oversees the franchise throughout all media for Lionsgate, has a hunch on the franchise’s physique rely. “I wish to assume we cracked a thousand,” he stated. “I feel we’re in all probability proper round there.”

Stahelski additionally gave an replace on the fifth “John Wick” film.

“That’s a superb query,” he stated after I requested a few doable taking pictures begin date. “Nonetheless engaged on it. It’s all about time for us. When every little thing feels proper and we’ve actually seen the film in our heads, we all know the themes, we all know the forged we wish to do it, then we simply pull the set off.”

In a latest dialogue with Empire, Stahelski stated the fifth “John Wick” installment will probably be “actually totally different” for the reason that Excessive Desk storyline from the primary 4 movies reached its pure conclusion.

“The saga of ‘John Wick’ was fairly wrapped up,” he stated. “So the one solution to do a [fifth film] is to have a brand new story that entails John Wick. It’s not a continuation with the Excessive Desk. John dealt along with his grief. It will likely be actually totally different, and everyone [will] see the trailer and go, ‘Holy fuck… I gotta see that.’”

“Ballerina” stars Ana de Armas as an murderer from the Ruska Roma group who seeks revenge for her father’s homicide. The forged additionally consists of Reeves, Anjelica Huston, Ian McShane, Gabriel Byrne, Norman Reedus, Catalina Sandino Moreno and the late Lance Reddick.

“Ballerina” marks Len Wiseman’s “John Wick” directorial debut. He stated he doesn’t thoughts feeling the stress to stay as much as the franchise’s legacy. “Actually, I like stress,” he stated. “I feel stress provides me gas to be much more inventive. Think about the other and I used to be a doing a film and was like, ‘There’s no stress. It’s not going to be that tough.’ Then you definitely go, ‘What’s that? That’s not attention-grabbing.’”

“Ballerina” is in theaters on June 6.