John Wick prequel TV show casts Mel Gibson

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Mel Gibson has been cast in The Continental, the upcoming John Taper prequel TV series, Deadline reports. He's the first actor to join the show's form.

The three-part serial publication will center about the origins of the titular hotel where assassins from around the world resuscitate meet. The Continental has become pivotal to the John the Evangelist Wick franchise, and the serial publication volition follow a young Winston Scott (played by Ian McShane in the movies) in the mid-'70s. Gibson is set to toy with a newly character named Cormac – there's nary word yet on who'll fiddle Winston. It's set to air on Starz, although it doesn't have a release date yet.

This will cross a rare small-screen appearance for Gibson, although he did make his acting debut in the Continent dramatic event series The Sullivans back in 1976. He's no stranger to the action genre, withal – he's recently appeared in movies like Boss Level, Force of Nature, and Blood Father of the Church. He also directed the 2016 war movie, Hacksaw Ridge.

Elsewhere in the Wick-verse, John Wick: Chapter 4 is currently filming and volition see Keanu Reeves hark back up role as the titular assassinator, aboard McShane, Laurence Fishburne, Lance Reddick, and Rina Sawayama. Franchise film writer Derek Kolstad and director Chad Stahelski are as wel back for the fourth episode, and the movie is coif for release on Crataegus oxycantha 27, 2022.

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