Common has had success playing a villain on television, and he’ll team with Keanu Reeves to turn John Wick 2 into a cinematic explosion per reports.
The first Wick saw Reeves as an ex-hitman who is forced to dole out some retribution when gangsters break into his home, beat him up and kill his dog. He re-enters the tangled underworld of assassins he left behind and shows everyone that’s he’s still not to be trifled with.
Plot details for the new one are being kept muzzled but Common will be the movies’ chief villain, a head of security for a female crime lord.
Chad Stahelski is directing the movie, which is due to begin shooting this week. (The first one was co-directed by Stahelski and David Leitch but Leitch is now prepping to shooting spy thriller Coldest City with Charlize Theron and James McAvoy.)
Basil Iwanyk is producing.
The Chicago emcee has had quite the year, as Common played James Bevel in last year’s critically acclaimed film Selma, starred in the Liam Neeson-led Run All Night earlier this year, had a role in the drama Every Secret Thing alongside and recently wrapped up filming on Barbershop 3.