{"id":141177,"date":"2025-05-06T05:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T05:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/rina-sawayama-returns-as-badass-akira-in-john-wick-spinoff-directed-by-donnie-yen\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T05:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T05:56:23","slug":"rina-sawayama-returns-as-badass-akira-in-john-wick-spinoff-directed-by-donnie-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/rina-sawayama-returns-as-badass-akira-in-john-wick-spinoff-directed-by-donnie-yen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rina Sawayama Returns As Badass Akira In &#8216;John Wick&#8217; Spinoff Directed By Donnie Yen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \">\n                <\/aside>\n<p>            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<p>During the massive studio and exhibitor occasion of <strong>CinemaCon<\/strong> in April, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsgate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lionsgate<\/a><\/strong> introduced that motion star <strong>Donnie Yen<\/strong> (\u201cRogue One: A Star Wars Story\u201d) can be directing his \u201c<strong>John Wick<\/strong>\u201d spinoff, \u201c<strong>Caine<\/strong>,\u201d with a script from screenwriter <strong>Mattson Tomlin<\/strong> (\u201cThe Batman Part II\u201d) because the Hong Kong-set pic has landed one other \u201c<strong>John Wick 4<\/strong>\u201d actor. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/global\/john-wick-spinoff-caine-rina-sawayama-akira-1236386658\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Variety<\/a> has now confirmed at this time that Japanese-British singer-turned-actress <strong>Rina Sawayama<\/strong> is returning as Akira Shimazu after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EEgKO6_FN3s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">end-credit scene<\/a> teased her pursuit of revenge after Caine killed her father Koji Shimazu (performed by <strong>Hiroyuki Sanada<\/strong>) throughout a conflict on the Osaka Continental. However, given how in-flux these \u201cJohn Wick\u201d tasks are, it wasn\u2019t automated that Sawayama would find yourself within the taking pictures model of \u201cCaine\u201d till this casting replace.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/john-wick-donnie-yen-direct-caine-spinoff-20250401\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE: \u2018John Wick\u2019: Donnie Yen To Direct Hong Kong-Set \u2018Caine\u2019 Spinoff With Script From \u2018The Batman Part II\u2019 Writer [CinemaCon]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another neat ingredient is that Lionsgate is launching gross sales on the <strong>Cannes Film Market<\/strong> this month because the studio is probably going looking for worldwide companions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost delighted to welcome Rina back into this new, exciting journey with us. It will be my pleasure and attempt to elevate her amazing character that left us mesmerized from \u2018John Wick: Chapter 4\u2019!\u201d Yen mentioned in an announcement. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unknown if Akira will certainly tackle a most important antagonist function or just be one in every of many as Caine is predicted to see his personal hero\u2019s journey within the type of a movie extremely influenced by the Hong Kong motion\/crime genres from notable names like <strong>John Woo<\/strong>, <strong>Jackie Chan<\/strong>, <strong>Johnnie To<\/strong>, <strong>Ringo Lam<\/strong>, <strong>Andrew Lau<\/strong>, and <strong>Alan Mak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Yen isn\u2019t a stranger to directing himself or motion tasks, having beforehand helmed motion pictures like \u201c<strong>The Prosecutor<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>Sakra<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Tomlin, who can be writing Reeves and <strong>Justin Lin<\/strong>\u2018s \u201c<strong>BRZRKR<\/strong>,\u201d is working from a earlier draft of the script by <strong>Robert Askins<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Support unbiased film journalism to maintain it alive. Sign up for The Playlist Newsletter. All the content material you need and, oh, proper, it\u2019s free<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While we will\u2019t say if <strong>Keanu Reeves<\/strong> will present up as Wick in \u201cCaine\u201d like he does in \u201c<strong>Ballerina<\/strong>\u201d this June. But Lionsgate has introduced<a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/lionsgate-john-wick-5-prequel-animated-film-20250401\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u201c<strong>John Wick 5<\/strong>\u201d is in lively growth<\/a> with franchise director <strong>Chad Stahelski<\/strong> and Reeves returning. Making it extraordinarily doable that Wick\u2019s off-screen loss of life was a doable fake-out, permitting him to do extra cameos in these spinoffs, serving to to cement their connective tissue. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaine\u201d is shaping up properly, and we\u2019ll doubtless be taught extra casting additions with manufacturing mentioned to be gearing up \u201csoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"xBh_e2VLgx4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Teams Up with Koji and Akira | John Wick: Chapter 4\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xBh_e2VLgx4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] During the massive studio and exhibitor occasion of CinemaCon in April, Lionsgate introduced that motion star Donnie Yen (\u201cRogue One: A Star Wars Story\u201d) can be directing his \u201cJohn Wick\u201d spinoff, \u201cCaine,\u201d with a script from screenwriter Mattson Tomlin (\u201cThe Batman Part II\u201d) because the Hong Kong-set pic has landed one other \u201cJohn Wick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10187,10186,10189,9104,575,439,10184,10185,5154,10188,10190],"class_list":{"0":"post-141177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-akira","9":"tag-badass","10":"tag-directed","11":"tag-donnie","12":"tag-john","13":"tag-returns","14":"tag-rina","15":"tag-sawayama","16":"tag-spinoff","17":"tag-wick","18":"tag-yen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}