The footage that we’ve seen from John Wick: Chapter 4 looks incredibly badass and fans are super pumped about this next chapter in the action franchise. These John Wick movies just seem to get better and better and they take things to an awesome hardcore level. It’s hard to imagine things can get bigger than what the franchise has already done, but it sounds like that’s exactly what we’re going to get.
During an interview with Empire, director Chad Stahelski teases what we can expect from the next John Wick story saying:
“If you took The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, crossed it with Zatoichi, and threw in a Greek myth, you’d probably get something close to this. And who else fucking says those kinds of sentences? Now you know why I like doing John Wicks.”
We all know he really loves it, though! It sounds like we can prepare for an awesome western-samurai odyssey! He goes on to explain how this next chapter feel more epic than the first three:
“It gets a little scary after the third one. Because now we have a formula that works. But you have to throw caution to the wind and say, ‘Fuck it, we’re not doing that again.’ So now, on number four, we have multiple storylines. The movie feels different. It feels more epic. I travel a lot. I’m in Paris scouting, and see the Arc de Triomphe and I’m like, ‘Okay, I got an idea.’ So I put it in the movie. I’ve got some cowboy friends in the stunt community, so I think, ‘That would be a cool horse gag.’ Two of the big sequences were last-minute inspirations that I’ve always wanted to try but just didn’t know how to do.”
Keanu Reeves is back in action and it sounds like things are going to go harder than ever and I’m ready to take the ride!
The cast also includes Donnie Freakin’ Yen, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rina Sawayama, Shamier Anderson, Lance Reddick, Clancy Brown, Ian McShane, and Bill Skarsgard as the sinister main villain.
The movie is currently scheduled to open in theaters on May 27th, 2023.