Ballerina Final Footage Mixes Balletic Grace with Brutal Combat

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina may be an entry point for newcomers, but has set its sights on the John Wick fandom with a second and final trailer to hit the internet.

The spin-off film will enter theaters on June 6, 2025. It stars Ana de Armas, who plays Eve, a deadly assassin seeking to make a name for herself in the John Wick Universe. The actress got a lot of attention when news first broke that she’d been cast in the role, with many fans delighted to see a female lead at the center of a Wick spin-off.

John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, the 2019 follow-up to the original, was released in 2019, after Ballerina. Set in a very specific timeline within the franchise’s larger world, the events of Ballerina play out over the same timeline as those of Parabellum, to which it is connected.

In that film, Keanu Reeves played John Wick. An ex-hitman and former high roller of the Continental, Wick was ordered killed after murdering Santino D’Antonio on the Continental’s grounds. On the run and with a multi-million-dollar bounty on his head, he embarked on a bloody rampage across New York, racing to find help at the Ruska Roma’s headquarters.

Directed by the imposing Director (played by Anjelica Huston), the Ruska Roma provided a refuge of sorts, but also for young would-be assassins, including the Director’s protégés, the lethal ballerina-assassins in training. In Parabellum, a young girl is shown rehearsing on a stage, performing as a ballerina in a scene on a stage. The role that Unity Phelan played in Parabellum returns in Ballerina, with Ana de Armas taking the lead.

Ballina also features several familiar faces from the mainline series. Returning are Anjelica Huston as the Director, Ian McShane as Winston, and the late Lance Reddick as Charon, the Continental’s ineffable concierge. Reddick, who sadly passed in March 2023, had previously made two appearances in the mainline series, so his role in Ballerina marks the final on-screen performance for one of the franchise’s most beloved characters.

Also appearing are Gabriel Byrne as the Chancellor, the film’s primary antagonist; Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Nogi, Eve’s mentor; Norman Reedus as Daniel Pine, and several others, including Catalina Sandino Moreno and David Castañeda, though their roles are still a mystery.

Cutthroat Choreography and Clues

The first trailer for Ballerina arrived in September 2024 and provided a strong indication of what audiences could expect. The clip cuts to the quick of Eve’s origin story and shows her growing up without her parents.

A student at the Ruska Roma Academy, Eve had been indoctrinated into a life of violence by the Director and her husband to avenge the murder of her father. When her family was gunned down in cold blood by an unknown assassin, she knew only one thing: revenge.

The early trailer focused on Eve’s journey to track down the people who had wronged her family, with only a fleeting glimpse of John Wick himself.

The second trailer arrived in March of 2025 and did a complete 180 from the first. It began with Wick on screen, but fast-forwarded to a climactic battle between him and Eve in a snowy location. If fans craved more Wick in the second trailer, they are unlikely to be disappointed.

A smaller third trailer then dropped, one that showed Wick in short order. He gives Eve a look in their deadly confrontation, but is driven away by the sheer number of attackers. As such, the majority of the trailer was made up of brand-new footage.

Eve Moves Forward, Not Back

The final trailer was released this past Monday, April 1st, and gives away very little of the plot while cementing the film’s place in the John Wick mythology. It also stands as a complete contrast to the first trailer in tone, if not in content.

Opening on Wick aiming at Eve with a sniper rifle, the last trailer focuses squarely on our title character’s grit and skill as an assassin. At first, the trailer contains a mixture of new and previously released footage, but then transitions into a blurring montage of choreographed fights, gunplay, and knife-fu, with the close-ups of blood being splashed across Eve’s face particularly vicious.

Ana de Armas cuts a deadly figure, deftly dispatching wave after wave of bad guys in a long-form action sequence. She shows off a surprising physicality and range for a first-time action star, and her dedication to the choreography is clear to see. As she hops from one fight to the next, she lays waste to all those in her path, building in momentum as the pace of the trailer races forward.

Dialogue is brief but impactful, including the line from earlier, “This isn’t done until they’re dead.”

Wick then makes a reappearance in a larger climactic action set-piece, and it seems that while Eve may be the primary focus, Keanu Reeves won’t be absent either. The two share a moment, both of them wary, before finally moving into an actual fight.

Wick has shown up to make a point, and Eve isn’t about to let him.

The Rundown

Eve Macarro is a ballerina and former student of the Ruska Roma in Chapter 3: Parabellum. By the end of the film, she’s a fully-fledged ballerina assassin, apparently dispatched by the Director herself, but with far greater capability than a simple hitman.