When Does "Ballerina" (2025) Take Place?
"From the World of John Wick: Ballerina" is a crime film written by Shay Hatten with Emerald Fennell that released June 6th, 2025. So when is "Ballerina" set?
It takes place on the fictional John Wick timeline in the year:
We know this because an early scene is clearly a different perspective on a scene from "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum" (2019), which takes place in 2014 AD. This scene is followed by a title card superimposed over the footage that tells us we're jumping "2 MONTHS LATER" for the remainder of the story but presumably it's still within the 2014 AD calendar year.
2014 AD
We know this because an early scene is clearly a different perspective on a scene from "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum" (2019), which takes place in 2014 AD. This scene is followed by a title card superimposed over the footage that tells us we're jumping "2 MONTHS LATER" for the remainder of the story but presumably it's still within the 2014 AD calendar year.
Additionally, there's an extended prologue that ends with a title card reading: "12 YEARS LATER" before the scenes that mirror "John Wick: Chapter 3" (2019) so it's probably 2002 AD at this point.
2014 - 12 = 2002.
It is the chronologically fifth story in the John Wick universe (the fourth chronological film to feature John Wick) and can be watched at its timeline point.
