'Breaking Bad' Star's 'John Wick' Replacement Officially Makes a Clean Getaway From Streaming

The John Wick industrial complex appears to be winding down after a solid decade-long run. That said, future products of the widely influential wave of action films will have to up the ante. John Wick himself is set to return with a fifth movie that hasn't yet been assigned a release date, but later this year, fans will get to see Violent Night 2, one of the rare second installments of a franchise directly inspired by the John Wick franchise. There is, however, another set of movies in this group. And now, the first installment is streaming domestically on Peacock, but only for a little while longer.

Like Violent Night, the movie in question was co-produced by David Leitch, the uncredited co-director of the original John Wick movie. Leitch went in a different direction after the success of the first film, leaving his co-director Chad Stahelski to shepherd the John Wick series to where it is now. Leitch himself directed one of the first John Wick clones, the action movie Atomic Blonde, starring Charlize Theron. He then produced the similarly positioned action movies Love Hurts and Over Your Dead Body, and executive-produced the streaming films Kate and Pretty Lethal.