Anyone familiar with the actor Ian McShane knows he’s never one to mince words. Much like his character in the John Wick franchise, we expect McShane to give candid comments, but his recent words about the streaming series The Continental are pretty spicy.
Set in the John Wick universe, The Continental was a mini-series that streamed on Peacock and followed a younger version of Ian McShane’s Winston Scott. With no direct involvement with the usual players we’ve come to know in the four films, it was an overall mixed bag from critics and fans. None were more mixed than Ian McShane himself, who tells Movieweb that he didn’t even waste his time with it all together.
“I wouldn’t watch it,” states McShane. “I have no intentions – nobody – I don’t think Keanu [Reeves] watched it, neither has Chad [Stahelski]. It had nothing to do with our movies. It’s just a question of a TV company cashing in on the series and taking the option to [air?]. They never asked us about anything, so why would I be interested in seeing it?
The actor doesn’t hold back, adding: “I’m afraid their arrogance in getting the show out is beyond me, so I wish them well. I think it’s come and gone, hasn’t it?”
2024 will see Ian McShane return to the John Wick franchise with the Len Wiseman-directed spin-off film Ballerina. It stars McShane, Reeves, and the late Lance Reddick alongside the lead, Ana de Armas. The film opens this June.
The three-part event will explore the origin behind the iconic hotel-for-assassins centerpiece of the John Wick universe through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott, as he’s dragged into the Hell-scape of 1970’s New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind. Winston charts a deadly course through the hotel’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the hotel where he will eventually take his future throne.
The Continental stars Mel Gibson, Colin Woodell, Mishel Prada, Ben Robson, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Nhung Kate, Jessica Allain, Ayomide Adegun, Jeremy Bobb, and Peter Greene.
