'John Wick 4' Casts Hiroyuki Sanada Alongside Keanu Reeves
‘It’ star Bill Skarsgard is in talks to join Donnie Yen, Shamier Anderson and Rina Sawayama in Chad Stahelski’s Lionsgate movie.
Hot off back-to-back appearances in Mortal Kombat and Zack Snyder‘s Army of the Dead, Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada has found his latest action movie, as he’s set to join Keanu Reeves in Lionsgate’s John Wick 4, Collider has exclusively learned.
Chad Stahelski is returning to direct the high-octane sequel, which has also added Donnie Yen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Shamier Anderson (Stowaway) and Japanese-British popstar Rina Sawayama. It star Bill Skarsgård is also in talks to join the cast, as we first reported earlier this week.
Sources say that Sanada will be playing a key character known as Watanabe, though it’s unclear how he figures into the plot, which remains under wraps. Lionsgate has been keeping a tight lid on character descriptions, though we do know that Yen will be playing an old friend of John Wick’s, and that the two of them share many of the same enemies.
