It’s almost check-in time at The Continental.

Lionsgate Television chairman Kevin Beggs told Deadline that a new prequel series, focused on a younger version of Ian McShane’s character Winston, is in development now. It will be set in 1970s New York City. The Continental was first announced by Starz in 2018 but details about the project have been scarce until now.

The show will be a limited series with three episodes as long as feature films, each of them revolving around a specific event.

“What we’re exploring in The Continental is the young Winston and how it came to be that he and his team of confederates found their way into this hotel which we have met for the first time in the movie franchise 40 years later. That’s the arena” Beggs explained.

Keanu Reeves won’t be involved, as the show takes place back when John Wick was a child, and McShane is similarly not on board, but he may return for some voice-over work.

“Keanu is in talks to executive produce,” Beggs said. “Because we’re way back in time, way back pre-John Wick and even pre-young John Wick, that character is not finding his way into the universe. We are in the John Wick universe, but it’s way back in time.”

“The Continental” is a major location in the John Wick trilogy, and is the assassin’s hotel that has a rule that you can’t kill anyone when inside its grounds. Outside the hotel, however… The studio took a lot of production pitches for this spinoff series, but the one that won out was from the creative team of “this obscure little show called Wayne that was on YouTube.” Beggs was impressed because it was a show that solved “a lot of problems” and even used The Sopranos as an inspiration.

It will feature “a crumbling New York in the 1970s with a garbage strike that has piled up bags of garbage to the third floor of most brownstones, the mafia muscling in on that [sanitation] business…and other things that are really real as an interesting backdrop to explore the origins of The Continental.” Beggs explained.

John Wick isn’t the only theatrical property Lionsgate plans to adapt for television. “American Psycho is in development. We’re always exploring what we can do in television with something like the Saw franchise, so that’s a conversation,” said Beggs.

If you want more of present-day John Wick, he’s coming to the big screen. John Wick 4 and 5 will be filmed back to back, with John Wick: Chapter 4 arriving on May 27, 2022.