Unlike his directing partner David Leitch who went on to direct Hobbs & Shaw, Deadpool 2, and Atomic Blonde, Chad Stahelski has yet to leave the John Wick universe behind, other than a brief stint helping out on Birds of Prey and The Matrix 4. It won’t be that way for long as he’s piling up quite a workload of upcoming projects, including an urban fantasy film titled Arcana.
Deadline reports Stahelski will direct Arcana, a new film set up at Lionsgate, the studio behind the John Wick films. The script is by Predators duo Michael Finch & Alex Litvak, and takes place in a gritty urban fantasy world of hidden clans. Isn’t that just John Wick minus the gunplay?
Don’t expect to see Arcana anytime soon. Stahelski is currently working on two back-to-back John Wick films, plus the franchise series spinoff The Continental, an untitled car film from A Quiet Place writers, a Highlander reboot, comic book adaptation Analog, and more.
