Movie John Wick 4: Halle Berry’s Ex-Assassin
John Wick fans may not have seen the last of Halle Berry’s ex-assassin Sofia, although they certainly won’t be seeing her when “John Wick: Chapter 4” arrives in theaters on May 24, 2023.
Berry confirmed in an interview with IGN this week that she is not appearing in the next “John Wick” movie. The Oscar winner made her debut as Sofia in the 2019 sequel “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.” Sofia is an ally of Keanu Reeves’ John Wick and the manager of the Continental Hotel in Casablanca.
“Sofia’s not in the next ‘John Wick’ movie,” Berry said, although the character might be getting her own spinoff film. “There could possibly be a Sofia…her own movie. So she might not be in ‘John Wick,’ but she might be doing her own thingy-thingy.”
Berry added that starring in her own “John Wick” spinoff movie would be “putting some ointment on a little sore,” alluding to her James Bond spinoff movie that never happened. Berry played Bond girl Jinx opposite Pierce Brosnan in 2002’s “Die Another Day.” Bond producer Barbara Broccoli wanted to give Berry’s Jinx her own movie, but the studio balked at the intended $80 million budget and the project was killed.
“It was very disappointing,” Berry told Variety in September 2020 about losing her Bond spinoff movie. “It was ahead of its time. Nobody was ready to sink that kind of money into a Black female action star. They just weren’t sure of its value. That’s where we were then.”
Getting her own “John Wick” spinoff would be a redemptive moment for Berry after her Jinx movie failed to get off the ground. With Keanu Reeves front and center and Berry in a supporting role, “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum” became the action franchise’s highest-grossing movie so far with $327 million at the worldwide box office.
Next up for Berry is a starring role in Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster movie “Moonfall.” The movie opens in theaters Feb. 4.
Defends the Divisive ‘Game of Thrones’ Series Finale
Actor John Bradley is still defending the controversial “Game of Thrones” series finale against its very harsh critics, even more than two years after the show ended.
“It is highly unlikely that we were ever going to please everybody,” the actor, who played Samwell Tarly on the long-running fantasy show, tells me on the latest episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “Chances are we were going to please a fraction of people… We almost couldn’t win. It almost meant too much to people for them to really ever be satisfied. And who knows, when the wounds have healed a little bit in a few years time, maybe people will reevaluate it and be able to see it as a complete thing.”
Bradley is particularly irked that some naysayers argued that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and the cast “didn’t care anymore” by the time the finale came about. “If they didn’t care, they wouldn’t choose to be standing in a field in Belfast at 3 o’clock in the morning for months on end,” the actor says. “They wanted to make it as good as possible, and it’s a shame if people didn’t like it because we did try our best to make something very special.”
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And yes, he’s looking forward to watching “House of the Dragon,” the upcoming “GoT” prequel series. “There will be a certain bittersweet quality to it,” Bradley admits. “I think it’s a bit like, do you know when you move house and you go back to your old house and other people have moved in and then they’ve redecorated and they’ve changed things and they’ve made it their own and you just don’t feel involved in it… It’s going to be like seeing somebody else living in your house.”
I talked to Bradley days before the Feb. 4 release of “Moonfall,” the Roland Emmerich-directed disaster film that co-stars Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson. Bradley plays a conspiracy theorist who discovers that the moon is off its orbit and on a collision course toward Earth.
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