It’s a very good factor Chad Stahelski and Keanu Reeves have extra gumption than they know what to do with, else we wouldn’t have been gifted the complete type of one of many all-time best motion franchises in John Wick. With 4 motion pictures below its belt, a fifth one in growth, a by-product movie due subsequent 12 months, and a prequel miniseries set to grace Peacock subsequent month, the John Wick mythos nonetheless stays a gold mine of untapped tales, and we’re grateful to be occupying the timeline the place it didn’t cease at three motion pictures.
That, in fact, implies a timeline the place John Wick did, actually, name it quits after John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and it’s a timeline that apparently flirted fairly dangerously with our personal.
In a current interview with Josh Horowitz on Completely happy Unhappy Confused, Stahelski himself reminisced on the times when he and Reeves have been all however sure that Parabellum could be John’s swansong, noting how a deadly finish for the eponymous hitman was initially deliberate for Chapter 3 earlier than logistics dictated a extra open-ended ending.
“Keanu and I believed that doing a cool factor like a tragedy – the whole lot over an extended sufficient timeline is a tragedy – however wouldn’t it’s cool if we discovered a cool technique to steadiness out that John gave his life, and it turned a five-hour film. So we’re like ‘Okay, let’s simply persist with what we all know; we’ll have John do that, we’ll put Sophia in right here, we do that, we do one thing cool,’ and we’ll form of go away that open finish the place John has Winston, and we’ll go away it like ‘Okay, he’s gonna go after the Excessive Desk.’”
He would go on to disclose that the doubtful would-be ending to the franchise rapidly dashed any plans on pumping the brakes on John Wick, and the remainder is historical past.
“After which we did the third film, after which have been actually accomplished, after which it was a 12 months later, and we each felt like we form of let everyone down on the ending of quantity three… Individuals actually like John, and they also’re like “What the f***, guys?’”
In fact, with out spoiling something should you in some way aren’t clued in to the ins and outs of Chapter 4, it’s laborious to say the place the mainline John Wick sequence may probably go subsequent, and let’s simply say it’s irrespective of of desirous to give up whereas Stahelski and firm are nonetheless forward. No matter what lies forward for Chapter 5, although, the franchise’s spinoff potential nonetheless stays as ripe as ever, so we doubt we’ll be faring the world of John Wick farewell any time quickly.
Talking of which, The Continental: From the World of John Wick, a three-episode miniseries that tells the story of how Winston seized management of New York Metropolis’s Continental Resort, premieres on Peacock on Sept. 22, with later episodes releasing each Friday till the sequence finale on Oct. 6.