The John Wick franchise has expanded from one humble, singular motion flick to a four-chapter movie sequence, and an increasing universe within the works together with prequels, spinoffs, and a sequel all in varied phases of improvement. However the path wasn’t plainly laid out earlier than its director, Chad Stahelski. He needed to construct it from scratch, and whereas he’s executed an unbelievable job, it doesn’t come simply.
Stahelski ended up reaching out to Marvel architect Kevin Feige about how he proceeded in constructing his Cinematic Universe, and requested for a couple of pointers. Stahelski defined to Looper:
“Once I acquired to do John Wick, and we ended up making an attempt to go the subsequent step to John Wick 2 and John Wick 3, between 2 and 3 after which 3 and 4, I referred to as his folks and requested, ‘Hey, I do know Kevin’s actual busy. Would he thoughts a gathering?’. You could possibly think about how busy Kevin is, however each occasions, he sat me down and gave me a couple of hours of his time in each situations. He was like, ‘Okay, how can I assist?’ I used to be like, ‘Look, man, I acquired this John Wick factor. Give me some recommendation. What’s one of the simplest ways to deal with this? Some folks see this as a one-off. Some folks see it as a money seize.'”
He went on:
“To Kevin’s credit score, he goes, ‘What do you assume?” I instructed him what I believed, and he very graciously gave me his ideas on world-building and franchises. I do not know for those who’ve ever interviewed Kevin, however you are not speaking to a businessman. You are not speaking to an govt. You are speaking to a fan. No matter he is telling you, he can not help himself from smiling. No matter methods or methodologies of constructing a franchise, the one factor that comes throughout is ‘I like what I do. Observe your coronary heart, comply with your intestine, be respectful to the followers. Do what you wish to see, and you are going to be okay.'”
Though Stahelski admitted that Feige did clarify that the John Wick franchise is completely completely different from the MCU:
“So far as how to do this [build a franchise universe], he is like, ‘I’ve 75 years of IP. You have acquired one film, so it should be somewhat completely different.’ He hits you with the truth. You bought to earn it, man. However one of many bits of recommendation I acquired is make characters you like. Similar to what the Wachowskis taught me … [he was also] like, ‘Make each body, make each second depend.’ There are not any throwaway scenes, there is no throwaway performances, there are not any background gamers, foreground gamers – the whole lot in entrance of that digital camera, you bought to make it depend. John Wick 4 is a end result of that, and that comes from the Russos, the Wachowskis, and Kevin driving that dwelling for me.”
It’s clear that whether or not or not Feige had something to do with it, Stahelski has executed an excellent job along with his story and characters, and followers are nonetheless hungry for extra John Wick.
John Wick: Chapter 4 is in theaters now.
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