In a world without the pandemic, we'd all have seen John Wick 4 by now - initially scheduled for a May 2021 premiere, the restrictions imposed to battle COVID-19 forced a delay on filming and release. Now coming May 2022, the movie is still a few months away with story details kept under wraps, but Keanu Reeves who is reprising his role dropped a bit of a teaser recently.
John Wick Chapter 3 - Parabellum leaves Wick in a bit of a bind. Betrayed and bruised, he's got every High Table assassin in the world after him following Winston's double cross, and suffered some severe injuries. Last viewers see him, he's in New York, teaming up with Lawrence Fishburne's Bowery King character.
However, based on something Reeves stated in an interview with Esquire, Chapter 4 isn't going to be directly picking up that exact thread. It seems like there's been at least a short time skip, though the only events left unseen could possibly just be recuperation and travel. There's a sequence—hopefully, knock on wood... in John Wick 4, the opening sequence. John Wick is back in the desert on a horse. I'm going to hopefully be able to fast-gallop and run. Wick is in no shape to gallop, nor anywhere near a desert at the end of Parabellum. The last time our sharply dressed assassin was anywhere near a desert, he was trying to reach a particularly secretive and important character in the world of assassins, so chances are that is his goal once again.