John Wick: Chapter 4

John Wick's Chad Stahelski on Larger Than Life Action Scenes, Upcoming Projects, and More

Future of Wick Franchise
John Wick: Chapter 4 has been been announced for quite some time, and then Lionsgate just announced John Wick 5. How far along in development are you and the team, on those?

That's a tricky one for me. There's the studio business side of things that, of course, I think they think Keanu and I are getting on in our years, so they're going to try to do to two back to back. That's interesting. It's very flattering. I'm psyched that I have a studio behind me that wants to keep making John Wicks.

Creatively, we're pushing forward, trying to do as much as we can. The way Keanu and I approach it with our writing team is, "Look, we have ideas, but it's not like I'm working with two sets of writers on two movies." We're going to write a really good number four. If a really good number four feels solid to Keanu and I, we'll make that one. That doesn't mean we won't plan on a fifth or start writing five, but we want to make sure we have a solid story. The worst thing you can do is "I got five ideas. I'm going to put two in number four and put three in umber five." I don't want to try and stretch into two movies. I want to have solid ideas. So we're attacking number four with everything we have and if there's anything left on the table, we'll fully attack number five.

We have lots of ideas. We're just in the process where we feel really good about where we're going with number five. I mean number four. We feel like we have a pretty good idea, working hard on the script. We have some great action ideas. Keanu's really excited what he can do with the character for that.

And from there it's "Okay, great." Now we're starting to look at "Okay, where would this character be after this movie happens?" But it's hard to start talking about a five until you really sussed our four.

I'm just being safe in my answer because I want to make sure we have a rock-solid four and then we have a rock-solid five, and it's not just some "Hey, let's make a big announcement about having a lot of movies."
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So, John Wick 5 is on the table pretty much if you guys want it. Obviously you've talked Keanu a lot. If the ideas are there, do you want to go past five or did you see an end in sight for both you and Keanu?

Look, if I was fortunate enough to only ever work with Keanu, I'd be stroked. He's a great guy, great creative partner.

Again, because the studio is generous to let Keanu and I control the creative path of the franchise, the limit of John Wicks is the limit of our imaginations. It's not like we run out of days and go, "Okay, what's the episodic mission John on now?" Yeah, I'd get bored of that. But because we can expand or contract the world as we see fit to carry the character, there's no existing property, so you don't have to hold true to what superpowers he has or doesn't have. We make it up as we go.

We both thought we were satiated after number three, and we both thought, "Okay, I'm good. We did three. Wow, they turned out pretty good. Wow, we dodged a bullet. Thank God." And we were both like, "Well, we're done. We did a good job. What's next?" And then we were on the publicity tour for it, and we were both sitting in Japan having a drink and we just smiled at each other, going, "What do you think?" He's like, "I don't know. I think maybe I want to do one more. I was like, "Yeah, me too."
So we had some ideas that we didn't get to use in the first three that we really want to try and do and expand the character and the world, and that makes perfect sense.

So short version of the answer is, look, as long as it's interesting, I have no problem working. There are other things Keanu and I both want to do, but we feel very good about John Wick. Do I see an end? My response is always John's in a world that you do bad things, bad things happen to you. So I don't know if John Wick's ever going to get a happy ending. He may have happy moments, but I don't know. We'll see what's in store for John Wick.
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Ballpark idea, do you have any idea when you want to start John Wick? Matrix 4 is getting close to completion, right?

Yeah. I reckon they finish by the end of the year. Keanu will probably want a small rest I would hope. We're fairly active in John Wick right now. In a best-case world, if we were shooting in spring, that'd be great.
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I like the them taking John to some iconic cities around the world.
 
I wonder why they didn't bring Derek Kolstad back to write it.
 
Awesome news and now if we could only get Tony Jaa or Iko Uwais in one of these movies than that would be even more perfect. Also, it would be pretty damn cool if he wasn't a one off character and actually stuck around for the final movie, but thats probably not going to be the case unfortunately.
 
flickchick85 said:
I wonder why they didn't bring Derek Kolstad back to write it.
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According to some rumors, I can think of eight figures to write two more movies as to why. The guy who use to write for variety alluded to this, but eh, I think he can be replaced.
 
KaijuDude1992 said:
Awesome news and now if we could only get Tony Jaa or Iko Uwais in one of these movies than that would be even more perfect. Also, it would be pretty damn cool if he wasn't a one off character and actually stuck around for the final movie, but thats probably not going to be the case unfortunately.
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Andrew Koji and Joe Taslim too!
 
This film needs to top the last one so I need John to survive a fall from a Boeing 787 at cruising altitude (no parachute and no large body of water to fall in).
 
Deck Rickard said:
This film needs to top the last one so I need John to survive a fall from a Boeing 787 at cruising altitude (no parachute and no large body of water to fall in).
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Maybe it's time to get Tom Cruise involved... ;)

John Wick vs. Ethan Hunt
 
‘John Wick 4’: Laurence Fishburne Confirms His Return and Praises Sequel Script That Goes “Much Deeper”

The cast for the upcoming John Wick 4has been rounding out nicely over the last couple of weeks, with such names being added to the action sequel as Bill Skarsgard, Shamier Anderson, Donnie Yen, and newcomer Rina Sawayama in her feature debut. But, as it turns out, Keanu Reeves isn't the only actor who will be making his return to the newest movie. While speaking with Collider in promotion of Netflix's action thriller The Ice Road, Laurence Fishburne revealed that he'll be reprising his role as The Bowery King.

"I should be going to Berlin within another couple of months or so," Fishburne said, confirming earlier reports that the sequel film will be filming both there primarily as well as Paris, with additional location shoots to take place in Japan and New York City.

Obviously, Fishburne couldn't say much about any plot details, but he has had a chance to read the script for John Wick 4, which as Collider previously revealed, will be written by Michael Finch instead of series creator Derek Kolstad. So what was Fishburne allowed to reveal in terms of what fans can expect from the upcoming movie?

"I read the script. It's really, really cool. As much as it's the same world as the other three films, it's just deeper. It's much deeper in terms of the code of the assassin and the relationship that he has with one character in particular who I think Mr. Watanabe is playing... is really the heart and soul of it."

However, Collider is hearing that Watanabe is actually the name of a character in the upcoming sequel, rather than another potential new addition to the cast.
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Gothamsknight said:
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Okay, after being disappointed in the last 2 movies this cast is getting me excited again.
 
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