With John Wick: Chapter 4 going great guns at the cinematic box office, it's naturally the right time for Lionsgate to remind us all that there's a TV prequel headed our way this year. The Continental: From The World Of John Wick has a first teaser online.
The Continental will explore the origin behind the hotel-for-assassins, which has long become the centerpiece of the John Wick universe. This will be accomplished through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott (Colin Woodell), who is dragged into the Hellscape of a 1975 New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind. Winston charts a deadly course through the New York’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the iconic hotel, which serves as the meeting point for the world’s most dangerous criminals.
With a cast that also includes Mel Gibson, Mishel Prada, Ben Robson, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Nhung Kate, Jessica Allain, Ayomide Adegun, Jeremy Bobb and Peter Greene, the series will run in three 90-minute chunks on the Peacock streaming service in the US tis September, which means that – for now at least – it's anyone's guess where it'll end up in the UK.