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‘The Continental’: New Featurette Teases the Beginning of All!! Check It Out!!

The Continental will soon take John Wick fans to the familiar hotel at a different time. The upcoming limited series will see the rise of Winston as the manager of the hotel and setting on the path to becoming the man we know him to be. The hotel has always been a neutral ground for criminals that Winston ruled with an iron fist and stern principles, the cast and creators give fans a good look at the beginning of it all in a new featurette.

“The Continental takes place in the 70s,” says executive producer Basil Iwanyk. The series will see New York at the time when the city was facing a crisis amidst the sanitation strike and organized crime prevailed. “Much like the John Wick films, it’s kind of parallel world,” explains director Albert Hughes, promising, fans familiar elements like “The High Table, the violence, the fun.” He further revealed, “We’re showing the early versions of the kitchen, the hotel lobby bar.”

In these times not only assassins but mafia members also seem to be the most common visitors to the hotel, following the same rules of utilizing gold coins and only conducting “business” once their target is off the grounds. Here Winston will meet his life-long friend Charon, “When Winston approaches Charon, there’s definitely a lot of anger,” Collin Woodell, who plays the young version of the manager teases. “And that’s the beginning of the relationship you see years and years later in the John Wick film, adds Hughes. While fans have loved the mythos and characters of the John Wick world, it’ll be curious to see where they all began.

The series casts Woodell as Winston Scott, Ayomide Adegun as Charon, Mel Gibson as antagonist Cormac, Hubert Point-Du Jour as Miles, Jessica Allain as Lou, Mishel Prada as KD, Nhung Kate as Yen, Ben Robson as Frankie, Peter Greene as Uncle Charlie, Jeremy Bobb as Mayhew, Katie McGrath as The Adjudicator, Ray McKinnon as Jenkins among others.

The Continental opens its doors on September 22. You can check out the new featurette below:

via Collider

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