Ballerina Final Teaser Promises Gunfire and Grit

The latest and final trailer for From the World of John Wick: Ballerina just dropped today, just a few weeks ahead of its scheduled release in theaters. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, which was released in 2019, introduces a ballerina assassin named Eve who is recruited into the Ruska Roma, an organized crime syndicate. She’s played by Unity Phelan in Parabellum, but Ana de Armas will take on the part in the upcoming spin-off.

Ballerna is set against the backdrop of Chapter 3: Parabellum, which follows Keanu Reeves’ titular character, John Wick, who is declared “excommunicado” by the High Table for killing a crime lord named Santino D’Antonio at the Continental Hotel. Fleeing from assassins with a multi-million dollar bounty on his head, Wick tries to evade capture throughout New York City. During his time on the run, he seeks out help from any ally he can find, including the Ruska Roma.

The Ruska Roma’s leader, the Director, played by Anjelica Huston, takes an interest in Wick and provides him with shelter, advice, and connections to useful resources. Meanwhile, her young recruits are trained in the art of brutal violence under the Director’s eye. It turns out they’re not ballerinas in the traditional sense — they’re ballerina-assassins. A brief scene from Chapter 3: Parabellum featured a young ballerina on stage, doing a bit of choreography. This character, named Eve Macarro, is played by Unity Phelan.

Ana de Armas will take on the title role as Eve in the upcoming From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. She’s currently filming on set in Sicily, according to on-set photos and social media posts. A prequel to the film reveals Eve’s backstory, including how she became an assassin. At the start of Ballerina, Eve is still in the training phase, and she’s still a member of the Ruska Roma.

The main antagonist of From the World of John Wick: Ballerina is the Chancellor, played by Gabriel Byrne. He’s a high-ranking member of a rival crime syndicate, and in the film, the Chancellor manipulates the entire town of Verdun into going after Eve.

Ian McShane (Winston from the John Wick films) and the late Lance Reddick (Charon from the John Wick films) both return for the Ballerina spin-off. Reddick passed away in March of 2023. Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Norman Reedus, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and David Castañeda are among the new cast members of the franchise.

Plot details are still fairly slim, but it seems that John Wick himself makes a cameo in the spin-off as well. The first trailer for the film, back in September of 2024, focused on Eve’s backstory and how she entered the underworld of crime syndicates as a young girl after being orphaned. In the last part of her training phase, Eve goes on a mission to kill a target, but she’s almost instantly killed. For this, the reason for her journey to Verdun: revenge. Eve was training in the woods when her father was brutally murdered in front of her.

The second trailer, released in March of this year, showed Wick and Eve having a face-to-face meeting in the snow in what was described by director GinaCarano as “epic.” It was only a quick glimpse, but fans were thrilled to get a larger look at Keanu Reeves’ character, who makes a return in the From the World of John Wick: Ballerina.

By all accounts, the film will follow the same structure, style, and framework of its three predecessors, in which the story is split into three parts. What was clear in the first trailer, and even more so in the second, is that the revenge story at the center of Ballerina is going to be personal. It’s every bit as intimate and one-on-one as fans of the John Wick series know and love.

In the third and final trailer, there’s a bit more of the action promised by John Wick‘s legacy. The first seconds feature a line that fans will not want to miss: “This isn’t done until they’re dead.” It’s a slow-motion image of Eve, with John Wick’s scope sitting on top of her as he aims. Wick is neither close nor far away at the start of the video.

The camera zooms in on Eve as the focus is on her, rather than Wick. The music is faster-paced, and the camera angles are quick. The violence starts suddenly and furiously, with Ana de Armas’ character trading blows with a massive number of adversaries. There’s a throughline from the first trailer that’s present, and it has to do with Ana de Armas. In the early days of Ballerina’s footage, there was a certain distance from de Armas herself.

Ana de Armas takes the lead in the dance, and the John Wick choreography in general is second to none. As an actress who is taking on the lead role for the first time, and likely for the last time, in the iconic John Wick saga, Ana de Armas has been working diligently to show her range and versatility in the role. In the end, it’s a promise and a tease that de Armas is up to the task.

The action sequences are slick and familiar, with the choreography pulled from the dance and the overall style of the John Wick films. Fans will have what they came for, but de Armas’ time on screen is longer, much longer, and the appeal of the film is all of Ana de Armas.

Ballerna is set to release in theaters on June 6, 2025.