John Wick Heads to Vegas For an Interactive Attraction

Keanu Reeves as John Wick in John Wick: Chapter 4. — Picture: Lionsgate

When you’ve ever needed to turn out to be absolutely immersed on the planet of John Wick, Lionsgate has bought you coated. Later this yr, the action franchise is getting an “immersive and interactive” tourist attraction in Las Vegas.

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Per the press launch, the John Wick Expertise was made in collaboration with collection director Chad Stahelski and his manufacturing firm 87Eleven. The i12,000 sq. ft. exhibit on the town’s AREA15 campus have guests “navigate a excessive stakes journey in addition to go to a themed bar and retail store open to most of the people.” Friends can be given particular missions that contain characters and iconography from the movies. They’ll additionally brush shoulders with Continental employees, crime bosses, and different assassins who (presumably) didn’t get on Wick’s dangerous facet at any level within the movies, all within the title of gaining access to personal Continental areas and studying juicy secrets and techniques.

Jenefer Brown, Lionsgate’s govt VP for international merchandise, mentioned a Wick expertise felt like a pure transfer for a collection constructed on “a complete world of alliances and vengeance hiding in plain sight. […] This expertise attracts followers into that world like by no means earlier than, and AREA15 is a perfect place for followers to dwell out the fantasy, motion and hazard portrayed within the movies.”

In 2018, Lionsgate launched a Noticed-themed escape room in Vegas, and one for Blair Witch in 2021. The studio has expertise with theme park points of interest, and Wick is an admitted match for the ever-expanding idea. And it additionally helps hold the franchise in people’ minds as Lionsgate tries to whip up a future for the larger franchise, together with a possible fifth mainline movie and a video game.

[through The Hollywood Reporter]