Halle Berry made a memorable appearance as ex-assassin Sofia in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and while the role wasn’t huge, she is featured in one of the film’s best action sequences and it’s clear that this character has more to offer. While Berry won’t be appearing in John Wick: Chapter 4, the actress teases that her John Wick future is far from over.
During a chat with IGN, Berry confirmed that she will not be appearing in the fourth film but she did tease that her character could be getting her spinoff movie. Berry said, “Sofia’s not in the next John Wick movie. There could possibly be a Sofia…her own movie. So she might not be in John Wick, but she might be doing her own thingy-thing.”
Berry is no stranger to proposed spinoffs. After she appeared in the James Bond film Die Another Day, there were reports that her Bond girl character Jinx would be getting her own spinoff. The project never materialized and she admits that a John Wick spinoff movie would be like “putting some ointment on a little sore.” At the time they were developing Jinx, the studio turned their nose up at the film’s intended $80 million budget. This was during the time when female-led action movies were not given their deserved chance at the box office because the studios believed it was something men didn’t really want to see, despite several examples of successful female-led action endeavors that have proved this theory wrong. Adding to this, a female-led action female starring a person of color was also something that a lot of studios weren’t investing in, unfortunately.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a Sofia spinoff although I did like her interactions with Reeves in John Wick so it would be cool to see them together again as well. In John Wick: Chapter 3, Sofia was an ally of John Wicks and the manager of the Continental Hotel in Casablanca.
Do YOU want to see a Sofia John Wick spinoff with Halle Berry?