John Wick: Chapter 4's Cliffhanger Will Finally Be Resolved

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Keanu Reeves at the end of John Wick Chapter 4

Published May 1, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT

Ben Sherlock is a Tomatometer-approved film and TV critic who runs the massively underrated YouTube channel I Got Touched at the Cinema. Before working at Screen Rant, Ben wrote for Game Rant, Taste of Cinema, Comic Book Resources, and BabbleTop. He's also an indie filmmaker, a standup comedian, and an alumnus of the School of Rock.

Three years ago, the ending of John Wick: Chapter 4 provided Keanu Reeves’ iconic assassin with the perfect bittersweet sendoff. He rose to the Herculean challenge of climbing a mountain festering with killers, he made the ultimate sacrifice to cut the head off the High Table command, and he slipped into death to reunite with his late wife in the hereafter. It was a beautiful bookend to the four-movie saga of a grizzled widower’s past coming back to haunt him.

Last year, we had From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, which didn’t quite live up to the greatness of the original John Wick quadrilogy, but was still a solid action vehicle, and Ana de Armas’ Eve is a fascinating antihero in her own right. Now, Donnie Yen has started filming From the World of John Wick: Caine, which will follow up on the curious post-credits scene of John Wick: Chapter 4.

Caine Is The Most Promising John Wick Spinoff Yet

John Wick’s expansion into a cinematic universe hasn’t exactly been a resounding success. Ballerina was a fun if generic action thriller, but The Continental was a massive waste of potential (it’s kind of halfway between being a movie and a TV show, and it doesn’t have enough substance or story material for either). But Caine, focused on Yen’s blind assassin from Chapter 4, is the most promising spinoff yet.

Yen isn’t just starring in Caine; he’s also directing it, from a story he co-wrote with Stahelski. Don’t think of it as an unnecessary spinoff from a worn-out franchise; think of it as an opportunity for Yen to direct and star in a big-budget action movie, with mini-major studio resources and the best stuntpeople in the business. The John Wick brand name is the commercial hook that earns Yen the funding and creative freedom to take his idiosyncratic vision of action cinema to the next level.

Caine Will Have To Reveal What Happened After John Wick 4's Post-Credits Scene

Unlike Ballerina, which was retroactively shoehorned into the John Wick continuity, the Caine spinoff was actually set up in a previous movie. After the end credits of John Wick: Chapter 4, after we’ve had a few minutes to mourn John’s apparent demise, we see Caine in Paris, hoping to reunite with his daughter, but before he can reintroduce himself, he’s targeted by a blade-wielding Akira, with vengeful rage in her eyes. This set up the conflict for Caine’s own movie: his attempts to reconnect with his daughter will be hampered by Koji’s daughter’s attempts to avenge her dad.

It’s a strong dramatic hook for a movie: a father wants to reconcile with his daughter, while a daughter wants to avenge her father. There are plenty of opportunities to compare and contrast these two very different father-daughter dynamics, and plenty of opportunities for Yen and Rina Sawayama to bring some real humanity and pathos to the action-packed proceedings. John Wick: Chapter 4 was the action movie to end all action movies — the biggest, baddest, most exhaustive extrapolation of the John Wick universe — so the Caine movie has a lot to live up to. But Yen is one of the masters of the action genre, so I’m confident he can pull it off.