John Wick 3: First Poster And Synopsis Revealed

John Wick and last year's John Wick: Chapter 2 are two of the most-acclaimed action movies of recent years, and expectations are high for the third movie in the series. John Wick: Chapter 3 will star Keanu Reeves as the former hitman once more, and it's set to hit theaters in May 2019. A first promotional poster and synopsis have now been released.

The poster was revealed at CinemaCon, the annual convention for theater owners in Las Vegas. Unsurprisingly, given the movie is more than a year from release, it's not very exciting--it is literally just the name of the movie on a black background. Check it out over at Collider.

The synopsis, meanwhile, reveals that John Wick: Chapter 3 will focus on Wick's attempts to escape from New York with a huge contract on his head and presumably dozens of trained killers out to get him. It reads, "John Wick is on the run for two reasons… he's being hunted for a global $14 million dollar open contract on his life, and for breaking a central rule: taking a life on Continental Hotel grounds. The victim was a member of the High Table who ordered the open contract. John should have already been executed, except the Continental's manager, Winston, has given him a one-hour grace period before he's "Excommunicado"--membership revoked, banned from all services and cut off from other members. John uses the service industry to stay alive as he fights and kills his way out of New York City."

Last year, director Chad Stahelski spoke about his plans for John Wick: Chapter 3. "We want, not so much to go bigger on the third one, but to show you more of the intricacies of the world," he said. "I feel like there are all these different subtleties that I skipped over in part 2, that I'd like to go back to [with part 3] and show you the inner workings of different parts of New York."

In related news, development of the long-rumored John Wick TV spin-off The Continental was confirmed by Starz in January. The channel's president Chris Albrecht said that the show will "include the thunderous fight sequences and intensely staged shootouts between professional assassins and their targets that fans have come to expect in the John Wick movie franchise as well as introducing some new, darkly compelling characters who inhabit this underground world." The Continental does not yet have a premiere date.