As we patiently awake the fourth John Wick film to wrap up filming and be in a theater near us, we have some details for the upcoming Continental series. Serving as a spinoff from the main John Wick-franchise, The Continental will be a three-night event series. Each episode will be around 90 minutes long.
Lionsgate Television Chairman had this to say:
“We were really blown away because it solved a bunch of problems and was super exciting, about a crumbling New York in the 1970s with a garbage strike that has piled up bags of garbage to the third floor of most brownstones, the mafia muscling in on that business which is why in The Sopranos he’s in the sanitation business, and other things that are really real as an interesting backdrop to explore the origins of The Continental which is famously within the movie franchise the assassin’s hotel in which you cannot kill anyone on the hotel grounds, but of course if you step one foot off you’re fair game, and that’s employed to great effect in many of the plots in the movies. Running all of that is Winston, who is played by Ian McShane (in the movies).”
Show Details
The Continental will be set 40 years prior to the events of the first John Wick film. The event series will focus around a younger Winston – who is played by Ian McShane in the movies. While Mcshane won’t appear physically in The Continental, The Illuminerdi suspects that he could potentially do some voiceover work in the show. Albert Hughes will direct the series.
Along with a 31-year-old Winston, we’ll see Winston’s brother Frankie as a series regular. Frankie is described as a “Vietname War veteran with a troubled soul”. Frankie met and fell in love with a character named Yen in Vietnam and eventually married her. Winston’s brother works for Cormack – a dangerous mob boss, who he eventually steals something valuable from. This puts Yen and Winston in trouble.
Yen is described as Vietnamese and “exceptionally physical and supremely agile”. After saving Frankie’s life, Yen falls in love with him and the two marry.
This is how The Illuminerdi described Cormack:
Cormack is a Mob Boss in his 60s and described as tremendously intimidating and devious. He rarely gets his own hands dirty with an endless supply of enforcers at the ready. Cormack is after Frankie, needing to retrieve what he stole no matter the cost.
Character Descriptions
And here are some other character descriptions:
Young Charon 17 years old and Cormack’s right-hand man. Charon eventually works for Winston becoming the concierge at The Continental.
Katherine Decker aka KD is a Detective who stumbles across The Continental while surveilling an arms buyer she has been tailing go into the hotel. Described as tough, relentless, and inquisitive she becomes intent on unraveling the secrets of the Continental even after her superior warns her to stay away.
Mayhew is a cop in his 60s and Katherine Decker’s boss. Grizzled and corrupt he turns a blind eye to what happens at The Continental and he warns Detective Katherine Decker to do the same. However, when he sees her stubborn resolve he gives her a file on Frankie.
Miles is described as Black in his 30s, a Vietnam War veteran turned gun runner. Miles is willing to do whatever it takes to find the money to keep his father’s old Dojo now run by his sister, Lou, afloat.
Loise aka Lou is described as Black in her 30s and a fighter, rougher and beat down. Lou is Miles’ sister and runs their father’s old Dojo. She reluctantly assists her brother in his criminal business, but wants them both to get out of the gun running business.
Mrs. Davenport is Mr. Davenport’s high class and seemingly demanding wife. She and Winston are having an affair and she helps him to persuade her husband to fund Winston’s newest project.
Mr. Davenport is described as 45-65 and unbelievably rich. Extremely influential in London he is Winston’s target investor for his latest project. His own wife and Winston manipulate Mr. Davenport into working with him.
Uncle Charlie, from the John Wick films, a father figure for Winston and Frankie when they were growing up Winston looks to him for help.
What do you think of the details for the upcoming John Wick show, The Continental?
Source: The Illuminerdi
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