Even though franchise director Chad Stahelski introduced John Wick over a decade ago, fans can’t get enough of the charismatic assassin. Though a spinoff is already in the works, that is Ana De Armas’ Ballerina, the consistent audience keeps demanding a speedy return of the franchise with a fifth film.
In an interview with The Direct, where the filmmaker was asked if we can expect a John Wick 5 soon, the director explained that when “you have something successful,” “Of course, you want to keep doing it.”
Look, I mean this in a good way; it’s a business. When you have something successful, yeah, of course, you want to keep doing it. But it’s very easy to be repetitive. The trick is how you be repetitive with individuality. How do you put your authorship or your agency into something that’s obviously been done three times before?
But when coming to the awaited answer about the future of the retired assassin, the director thanked the fans for always “wanting more” and expressed his gratitude “for everything.” Read his full statement below:
That’s incredibly flattering. You have to be incredibly humble and go, ‘Thank you.’ And that’s our response, ‘Thank you so much. Thank you so much for offering. Thank you so much for wanting it. Thank you so much for everything.’
Stahelski added that it’s not that they would “mind doing” John Wick 5, but for now, he feels like he and Keanu Reeves “ended it” with John Wick 4. Considering the titular character bites, it at the end of the fourth film, Stahelski still maintains that he has “bookcases and shelves of notebooks with hundreds of ideas.
The real question you ask yourself is not, ‘Do I want it?’ Yes, I wouldn’t mind doing it. We just tried to knock it out of the park. We tried to put everything on the table, take nothing, and leave it all. Like, ‘Fuck it, every idea. We’re not saving anything. We’re not trying to build. Just everything you got, leave it there.’
We feel we put everything we had into ‘John Wick 4,’ and we feel we completed the cycle. We feel like we ended it. So, we feel like, ‘You know, that was a great way to wrap up the previous three films and the fourth and deliver something satisfying and fun.’ Right now, if you put a gun in my head, you might as well shoot me; because I’m kind of fried.
Currently, the director wants to “leave it” to the point that he is “happy” they “didn’t screw up too badly on the last one” and to keep John Wick 5 “on the table” and “give it a think.”
So how we leave it is like, ‘Look, the answer is, yes, we’d love to work together again, but we just don’t know how yet. We don’t know the why. We don’t know the how. We don’t know the where. So let’s keep it on the table, and we’ll give it a think. Let’s just take a moment and be happy that we didn’t screw up too badly on the last one.’
So, there you have it! While Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski are open to return for a fifth John Wick film, but they don’t intend to do it anytime soon.
I’d advise you to stop looking for John Wick 5 and instead start reading up on the director’s latest upcoming project, Ghost of Tsushima, a film based on a famous video game. And you can find the latest updates on that film on Cine Dope, so stick around!
About John Wick : Chapter 4
John Wick 4 is an American neo-noir action thriller film and the fourth installment in the John Wick franchise. The franchise is created by Derek Kolstad and stars Keanu Reeves in the role of a retired legendary hitman John Wick.
John Wick must avoid run-ins with The High Table and survive long enough to complete his mission, along with the help of The Bowery King, who was left for dead by The High Table and now is helping John Wick take them down.
John Wick 4 released on March 24, 2023.
Source: The Direct
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