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Frequently asked about Ballerina

Common questions people search for, with answers written by us at MoviesPack.

• Is John Wick Ballerina a prequel?▾

  Ballerina (2025) is a spin-off rather than a prequel; its story takes place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, slotting between Chapters 3 and 4 of the main series.

• Is a Ballerina flop or hit?▾

  Ballerina underperformed at the box office relative to its reported production budget of around $90 million, opening to roughly $25 million domestically and finishing well below the John Wick sequels' theatrical totals.

• Will John Wick appear in Ballerina?▾

  Yes, Keanu Reeves reprises his role as John Wick in Ballerina in a supporting capacity alongside Ana de Armas as Eve Macarro.

• Why does Eve want to kill the Ruska Roma, and what is her connection to them?▾

  Eve's father was a member of the Ruska Roma crime syndicate who was murdered on the orders of the organization's leadership after he tried to leave and protect his daughter. Eve was subsequently taken in and trained by the Ruska Roma as a ballerina and assassin, unaware — or unwilling to accept — that they were responsible for his death. Her revenge mission is driven by uncovering the full truth of her father's betrayal and killing those directly responsible.

• How does Eve's ballet training connect to her fighting style?▾

  Eve's combat technique is directly rooted in her classical ballet training, using the discipline, body control, and precise footwork of dance as the foundation for her assassin skills. The film presents ballet as the cover through which the Ruska Roma conditioned her into a weapon — graceful movement and extreme physical control are the same qualities that make her lethal in close-quarters fights. Her choreography-like sequences emphasize that for her, violence and dance are inseparable.

• Where does Ballerina fit in the John Wick timeline?▾

  Ballerina is set during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, overlapping with John Wick's own story rather than following it. Eve crosses paths with John Wick himself during this period, and the film acknowledges the Continental and the broader High Table world operating in the same timeframe. This placement means the rules and power structures shown in Chapter 3 — the excommunicado order, the Continental's role — are directly relevant to Eve's situation.

• What role does the character played by Anjelica Huston serve in Eve's story?▾

  Anjelica Huston plays the Director, the head of the Ruska Roma ballet program who trained Eve — the same character seen briefly in John Wick: Chapter 3. She functions as a morally ambiguous mentor figure: she shaped Eve into a killer but also holds genuine regard for her. Her position at the intersection of the assassin underworld and Eve's upbringing makes her central to revealing the truth about Eve's father and the organization's culpability.

• Does Eve succeed in her revenge, and what does the ending suggest about her future?▾

  Eve completes her revenge by killing those responsible for her father's murder, but the ending frames this as a beginning rather than a resolution — she has proven herself as a fully realized assassin operating within the Continental's world. The final scenes leave her path deliberately open, nodding toward further stories rather than closure. Like John Wick before her, completing the revenge doesn't bring peace; it only deepens her entanglement with the underworld she sought to escape.