The Continental: From the World of John Wick

• Mel Gibson as Cormac O'Connor, who runs the Continental of New York during the 1970s.[1]
• Colin Woodell as Winston Scott, a Scottish-American businessman who has been living in London for decades; Ian McShane portrays an older version of the character in the main John Wick films.[1]
  • Fflyn Edwards as Young Winston
• Mishel Prada as KD ("Kady") Silva, a detective sergeant new to New York City, who is searching for the Scott brothers.[1]
• Ben Robson as Francis Patrick "Frankie" Scott, Jr., an assassin who is Winston's older brother, Yen's husband, and a Vietnam War vet.[1]
  • Ben Robinson as Young Frankie
• Hubert Point-Du Jour as Miles Burton, a gunrunner, who is also Vietnam War veteran, and son of deceased High Table assassin Hieronymus Burton.[1]
• Nhung Kate as Yen Scott, Frankie's wife and a former assassin and failed suicide bomber.[1]
• Jessica Allain as Lou Burton, an amateur karate practitioner with a dislike for guns, Miles' younger sister and Hieronymus' daughter, who is unaware of his assassin past[1]
• Ayomide Adegun as Charon O'Connor, Cormac's surrogate son, who seeks for Cormac to bring over his biological father from Nigeria; Lance Reddick portrayed an older version of the character in the main John Wick films.[2]
• Jeremy Bobb as Mayhew, KD's partner, with whom she is having an affair.[2]
• Peter Greene as Uncle Charlie, a long time family friend of the Scott family; David Patrick Kelly portrayed an older version of the character in the first two John Wick films.[2]

• Adam Shapiro as Lemmy, an associate of Miles[3]
• Katie McGrath as the Adjudicator, a judge of the High Table[3]
• Mark Musashi and Marina Mazepa as "The Twins", Hansel and Gretel, assassins with a room at the Continental.[3]
• Kirk Ward as The Henchman, the Adjudicator's bodyguard
• Ray McKinnon as Gene Jenkins, an assassin associate of Lou's, whose eyesight is failing.[3]
• Zainab Jah as Mazie, who took charge of and was proclaimed queen of the Bowery
• Dan Li as the Orphan Master, a local crime boss who comes to blows with Lou over her father's legacy.
• Chris Ryman as Ronnie, one of Uncle Charlie’s men.

While planning the story for John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum in January 2017, Derek Kolstad and Chad Stahelski were also conceiving ideas for a prequel story, suggesting that a prequel would be best told in the form of a television series.[4] In June 2017, the series was confirmed to be in full development, and the story would be called The Continental, focusing on the hotel that acts as a safe haven for assassins in the John Wick universe.[5] Lionsgate gave the project an official green-light in January 2018 and planned for the series to air on its Starz network. Initial reports indicated Chris Collins would serve as showrunner.[6][5]

Stahelski initially planned to direct the first episode of the series and stated that it would serve as an origin story for several of the characters in John Wick.[7] In April 2021, Kevin Beggs, chairman of Lionsgate Television, said the team wanted to make sure that the series would add to the world-building of the John Wick universe without inhibiting any plans for future films. After hearing multiple pitches from different creative teams, Lionsgate settled on the approach presented by Greg Coolidge, Kirk Ward, and Shawn Simmons; and the format of the show was re-worked into an event series of three 90-minute episodes following a young Winston in the 1970s.[8] The series was originally intended to comprise ten episodes; however, later the decision was changed in favour of the three episodes.[9] Coolidge and Ward were named the new showrunners with additional executive producing help from Shawn Simmons, Paul Wernick, and Rhett Reese;[10] and Albert Hughes and Charlotte Brändström were hired to direct.[11][12]

In October 2021, the cast members were announced, starting with Mel Gibson,[10] and followed by the rest of the lead cast including Colin Woodell as young Winston Scott from the main John Wick films.[1] Additional casting announcements in November 2021 revealed that Peter Greene and Ayomide Adegun would portray younger versions of Uncle Charlie and Charon, respectively, and Jeremy Bobb was cast as a new character named Mayhew.[2] In February 2022, roles were announced for Katie McGrath as the Adjudicator, Ray McKinnon, Adam Shapiro as Lemmy, as well as Mark Musashi and Marina Mazepa as Hansel and Gretel.[3]

Principal photography began in November 2021 in Budapest, Hungary.[13][14]

In April 2023, the series working title of The Continental was finalized as The Continental: From the World of John Wick.[15]