Mel Gibson set to star in John Wick TV spin-off, breaking the series' perfect streak of coolness

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They be SEETHIN. John Wick was always cringy mediocre garbage. Maybe this'll be decent.
The John Wick series rules. The fight scenes are fun, the increasingly bonkers mythology is cool, and Keanu Reeves' John Wick serves as a reminder to protect the things in your life that help you feel like a fully realized person while rejecting the pressures from those in power to reduce yourself to a machine that only exists to do one "useful" job—be it, you know, accounting or plumbing or working as an assassin for various international factions that all serve under some vague hierarchy of murderers. Also: God damn, those fight scenes.

Three movies in, it seemed like it would just be a matter of time before John Wick would screw that all up somehow, with the safest bet being that the series would eventually go way too far up its own ass with the mythology stuff. That might still happen, but no, the John Wick series just managed to screw it up with a casting decision: According to Deadline, Mel Gibson is going to star in Starz's spin-off series The Continental as a new character named Cormac.

Yes, this is the same Mel Gibson who went on an antisemitic tirade after getting pulled over for a DUI 15 years ago, threw a tantrum when he couldn't get the budget he wanted for Braveheart, was accused of abusing ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorievas, was heard going on another racist tirade on a series of leaked tapes, and once asked Winona Ryder at a party if she was an "oven dodger."




Hollywood put him in time out for a few years, but since then—and especially since the success of Hacksaw Ridge—he's just been given chance after chance after chance after chance after chance.
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His latest chance is this John Wick TV show, which will be about 1970s New York and a young version of Winston Scott, the character played by Ian McShane in the movies. The Deadline story doesn't say why Gibson had to play this role, but we can only assume it's because either the showrunners (Wayne's Greg Coolidge and Kirk Ward) called literally every other actor and aspiring actor in Hollywood and were told they were busy or because they specifically wanted Mel Gibson.


The John Wick movies, which have managed to cast a whole bunch of roles so far without resorting to hiring Mel Gibson, will return with a fourth installment at some point in the near future. It's currently shooting in Europe and Japan.
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What a shitty, whiny little article. I google the author's name and all I get is this picture

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Explosive Zombie said:
Man why do so many people hate the John Wick movies here.
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Maybe they only saw number 3? I think Wick was a fantastic film. Each sequel definitely diluted the quality, but were still fun as hell. I turned my elderly parents on to the first one last time I visited and the went and watched the sequels on their own!!

And Mel Gibson is one of the all time greats. Will watch him in anything.
 
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Explosive Zombie said:
Man why do so many people hate the John Wick movies here.
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I enjoyed them for the over the top gunplay. These movies caused me to look up that in fact, Keaneau Reeves is a competent sport shooter. They need to keep old cars, because once they go with the modern stuff, I tend to lose interest. I would rather see a Boss Mustang in action sequences than some plastic cladded modern crate, though I have to give them props for at least giving him a somewhat MoPar in the last one. The Belgian Malinois stole the show, however.

It's mindless action, with an interesting mythos that they don't necessarily explore as deep as it needs to be explored. A secret society of assassins and their code of honor is really interesting. It is a global organization and Keaneau's character is the ONE/NEO/Whatever which puts fear into everyone who knows of this group, is typical anti-hero fare.

I can dig it.

However, I also enjoyed Chris Hemsworth Extraction movie, mainly for the action and gun play, it doesn't go much deeper than watching a 48 hour operation of survival.

I also like the Expendables, but mainly for the 80s throwback over the top goofy action and fan service jokes.
 
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WesternBlood said:
I enjoyed them for the over the top gunplay. These movies caused me to look up that in fact, Keaneau Reeves is a competent sport shooter. They need to keep old cars, because once they go with the modern stuff, I tend to lose interest. I would rather see a Boss Mustang in action sequences than some plastic cladded modern crate, though I have to give them props for at least giving him a somewhat MoPar in the last one. The Belgian Malinois stole the show, however.

It's mindless action, with an interesting mythos that they don't necessarily explore as deep as it needs to be explored. A secret society of assassins and their code of honor is really interesting. It is a global organization and Keaneau's character is the ONE/NEO/Whatever which puts fear into everyone who knows of this group, is typical anti-hero fare.

I can dig it.

However, I also enjoyed Chris Hemsworth Extraction movie, mainly for the action and gun play, it doesn't go much deeper than watching a 48 hour operation of survival.

I also like the Expendables, but mainly for the 80s throwback over the top goofy action and fan service jokes.
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You're sounding more and more like me
 
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Damage inc said:
IGN had a snarky headline and the comments were amazing. Glad to see people standing up to this crap. Gibson is an amazing actor. I'm sure he will be great.
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I agree, he is a good actor. The bar is pretty low as to what constitutes a good actor, but I would put him above most in the game today for the roles he gets.
 
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Cryptek said:
I like the first two.

Kind of refreshing in an age of capeshit and factory funneled Disney fast food.

Third movie was meh, though.
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Why was the third movie meh? I mean I get the middle drags a bit but the action scenes in the beginning and the end are pretty sweet
 
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