John Wick‘s administrators have revealed that the primary film nearly had an alternate ending the place the pet survived.
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Chad Stahelski and David Leitch spoke concerning the varied battles they’d with the studio on the tenth anniversary of their motion film.
One in all them was the dying of Wick’s (Keanu Reeves) canine, which sends the protagonist on his killing spree.
“We had been advised, ‘It’s dangerous luck.’ ‘It’s dangerous juju.’ ‘It’s ‘Outdated Yeller,’ you may’t do that!’ ‘Nobody will need to see this on display; you’re going to alienate the viewers,’” Leitch advised The Enterprise Insider.
“And I’m like, ‘We’re going to execute folks at shut vary; killing the canine is one factor, however what concerning the brutal bloodbath of all these human beings? Are they going to have the ability to settle for that?’ … They didn’t perceive that we had been making a style film. We’re style followers to the core, and we all know these hard-boiled moments are what make memorable moments.”
Stahelski added: “For the following couple of weeks it was prompt that we shoot another ending revealing that the pet really isn’t lifeless. However Keanu stood up for us. … Ultimately, they simply felt, ‘Fuck it, let’s see what these guys can do.’”
The pair additionally stated they locked horns with the studio over the character’s beard.
“We had been attempting to do a modern-day Greek mythology fantasy film. That’s not mainstream. So we needed to do one thing cool with Keanu,” Stahelski stated.
“However the cash folks, they needed to see Keanu fucking Reeves. Level Break Keanu, Velocity Keanu. And I don’t know if this exists anymore, however on the time we had been advised by the powers that be you don’t cowl up your main man’s face with a beard.”
He continued: “We felt you may’t hearth us, so first day of taking pictures, we had Keanu within the beard, and later that week, after they watched the dailies, with cinematographer Jonathan Sela’s now well-known half-light pictures, folks fucking beloved it.”
Elsewhere, the primary trailer for Ballerina, a John Wick spin-off movie, was lately shared. The upcoming movie stars Ana de Armas as Eve Macarro, a ballerina who’s skilled to be an murderer in hopes of avenging the dying of her household. It is because of hit cinemas within the UK on June 6, 2025.
