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EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things prima Dacre Montgomery has signed connected for an undisclosed domiciled successful John Wick spinoff Caine, directed by and starring martial arts fable Donnie Yen arsenic nan unsighted assassin.
Montgomery joins Yen and Rina Sawayama, who will besides reprise her domiciled arsenic Akira. While Montgomery’s domiciled and nan logline are being kept nether wraps, nan caller movie is said to proceed Yen’s communicative arc pursuing nan events of John Wick: Chapter 4, arsenic Caine has been freed from his obligations to The High Table.
Currently successful accumulation for Lionsgate, nan movie is produced and creatively overseen by the franchise producers who person built John Wick into a billion-dollar grossing franchise: Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee done their Thunder Road shingle, and Chad Stahelski, who produces done his 87Eleven Entertainment accumulation banner. Keanu Reeves and John Saunders will besides produce. Yen will service arsenic an executive shaper connected nan project, arsenic will Courtney Brock.
Lionsgate will proceed trading nan task astatine this week’s Cannes Market.
Screenplay comes from Mattson Tomlin, writer of nan upcoming The Batman Part II and nan adjustment of nan Keanu Reeves-created comic book BRZRKR, and Michael McGrale. Yen is good known for movies including Ip Man, Flash Point, and Hero.
Montgomery is champion known for his capacity arsenic Billy Hargrove successful Netflix’s smash bid Stranger Things. His acting credits besides see Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, Dean Israelite’s Power Rangers and Samuel Van Grinsven’s Went Up nan Hill. In 2026, Montgomery is owed to make his directorial debut with The Engagement. He can presently be seen arsenic nan lead successful nan reimagining of nan 1970s cult classical film Faces of Death. Montgomery has besides released a postulation of poems entitled DKMH.
Montgomery is represented by CAA, Anonymous Content, and Sloane, Offer.
