DeadlinesRead the Screenplayseries spotlighting the years most talked-about scripts continues with action franchise smashJohn Wick: Chapter 4.
It is also the best-reviewed film of the franchise at 94% certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
We always wanted to try a top-shot kind of thing.
From left, Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen and Scott Adkins in “John Wick: Chapter 4"Lionsgate / Courtesy Everett Collection
We knew we wanted to do a vehicular thing, he said.
We knew we wanted to incorporate different kinds of martial arts.
A great number of these sequences began as references to films the key creatives love.
If you watch aJohn Wick, we dont look at it like a movie.
Its a love letter, explained Stahelski.
you’re free to seeEnter the Dragon, Walter HillsTheWarriors.
Theyre all movies that we [love] fromBullitttoPoint Blankto Wong Kar-wai to Zhang Yimou to Kurosawa.
At that same Contenders event, Stahelski teased, You never know … Keanus hard to kill.
Reeves will make an appearance in next years spinoff,Ballerina, also penned by Hatten.
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