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“I’ll be there, I’ll show up”: Charlize Theron Is Down to Punch Keanu Reeves In a Huge Crossover Between ‘John Wick’ and ‘Atomic Blonde’

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“I’ll be there, I’ll show up”: Charlize Theron Is Down to Punch Keanu Reeves In a Huge Crossover Between ‘John Wick’ and ‘Atomic Blonde’

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Charlize Theron recently expressed her willingness to participate in a grand crossover between John Wick and Atomic Blonde, which has excited fans all around.

Theron sat down for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about her July 2020 film, The Old Guard, and responded to high audience demand for a reunion with Keanu Reeves.

She said, “Listen, as soon as I get the call, I’ll be there.

They just have to tell me where, when and I’ll show up.

Keanu is one of my most favorite people in the whole wide world; I absolutely love him.

I respect him, I admire him and I am so grateful that I got to make two movies with him.

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We both kind of find ourselves in this new stage of our career, and so much of Atomic Blonde was influenced by John Wick.

So, if we can get those two characters to meet up in a timeline that makes sense, I’m all about it.”

The idea of a crossover between John Wick and Atomic Blonde might seem grand or ridiculous, depending on who you ask.

However, given the iconic status of both franchises, one can envision the epic scale of battle that could ensue once Theron and Reeves call an all-out war against each other on the big screen.

Both movies are cult classics in their own right, and a face-off between them could potentially draw in crowds that are radically wild, enthusiastic, feverish, and energetic.

While the lead actors are already good to go, only a studio needs to lock down the deal to make it happen.

David Leitch, who is directly attached to both projects as a director, and Reeves’ talent as a writer, considering how he helped transform the John Wick scripts, which were originally meant for a 75-year-old, along with Theron’s long and storied career as a producer, the idea might not even be as far-fetched as it sounds upon initial consideration, notwithstanding John Wick’s current status as “not among the living.”

In a fun anecdote, it has also been theorized that Theron has been the inspiration behind Keanu Reeves’ iconic 2014 movie that spawned a massive following.

The pair’s commercially and critically panned 2001 film, Sweet November witnessed Theron’s terminally-ill character mailing a dog to Reeves’s character – a plot that gave rise to John Wick’s rise out of a humdrum retirement to a globe-trotting killing spree, that caught the entire world’s undivided attention, ending with 2023’s Chapter 4 installment.

Charlize Theron is no stranger to the action-thriller genre, having starred in the cult-classic film Atomic Blonde in 2017, directed by David Leitch, which was widely appreciated by audiences.

Keanu Reeves also had a much-anticipated sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2, released in the same year.

While the latter was already keeping audience expectations fed and happy, the former gave rise to a widely asked-for sequel, which to this day remains to see the light of day.

During the course of the pandemic, Theron did give an interesting update about Atomic Blonde 2, claiming that a sequel was “actively developing right now.” But considering that was three years ago, and any news of production being green-lit is yet to be heard, the dreams of having Lorraine Broughton back on screen to deliver her rightful justice on the streets and some tense smoke-filled interrogation room drama remains a distant dream.

Charlize Theron stunned the world with Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller’s iconic follow-up to the Mel Gibson movies of the ’70s and ’80s.

While the films did serve as a reboot of Miller’s original post-apocalyptic chaos, the filmmaker prefers to call his brilliant 2015 vision a “revisiting” of the old saga rather than a remake.

Fury Road now holds a rare 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The actress later expressed her disappointment at not being a part of the Furiosa prequel that will star Anya Taylor-Joy in the titular role of a young Imperator.

Atomic Blonde is available for renting/buying on YouTube and Apple TV+.

Fans are eagerly waiting for the announcement of the crossover between John Wick and Atomic Blonde, which could potentially bring together two iconic franchises and create a new cult classic in the action-thriller genre.

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