‘The Continental’ Boss on How Mel Gibson’s ‘Psychotic Sociopath’ Brings Winston & Charon Collectively
Verify into The Continental, the explosive prequel to the John Wick motion movie franchise. Named for the Wickaverse’s world lodge chain for assassins, this fashionable three-part series (dropping weekly in roughly 90-minute installments) drills into the brutal Nineteen Seventies-era combat to manage the New York Metropolis location.
Being on set “was an adrenaline rush,” says director Albert Hughes. He’s proper—each minute is blood-pumping. Younger wheeler-dealer Winston Scott’s (Colin Woodell) brother Frankie (Ben Robson) steals an historic coin press used to mint assassin-world forex so he and Vietnamese-rebel spouse Yen (Nhung Kate) can begin a peaceable life. The machine’s keeper, and the brothers’ former prison mentor, power-drunk Continental supervisor Cormac (Mel Gibson) and his studious Nigerian assistant Charon (Ayomide Adegun) pull out all of the stops to get it again.
Franchise followers know Winston and Charon because the lodge’s crime lord supervisor and concierge, respectively (Ian McShane and Lance Reddick within the films). Nevertheless it’s their twisty journey to the administration suite—full with astounding combat choreography, a pulsing ’70s soundtrack and deeper dives into the human psyche than the movies—that’s the draw right here.
“Two characters from completely different backgrounds are plunged into this traumatic scenario and should determine it out,” Hughes says. “[Winston] is brash and daring. Naive Charon simply needs a greater life and is below the affect of a psychotic sociopath.”
Devotees of the unique will barely miss sympathetic hitman Wick (Keanu Reeves), a mere tot within the disco period. New characters bust down the door too, together with a number of kick-ass ladies. NYPD detective KD (Mishel Prada) is “the center of the story,” Hughes says, including that she and Winston “come to this crossroads.” Earlier than that, bullets, bombs and good outdated karate kicks rock the Continental to its core. With this bloody mess, they’d higher tip housekeeping.
The Continental: From the World of John Wick, Sequence Premiere Friday, September 22, Peacock
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