Chad Stahelski, the director behind the John Wick franchise, says that the fourth film is the end for Keanu Reeves' character for now.
The Big Picture John Wick: Chapter 4 brought the adventures of the lonely action hero played by Keanu Reeves to an end, as the character died while trying to fight the organization that wanted to destroy him. As he proved in the other movies directed by Chad Stahelski, he wasn't going down without a fight, with the plot sending him to confront what felt like an infinite number of enemies.
It was just never the way Keanu and I saw it, so we just worked and worked and worked and cut down a bunch of sequences, and took some stuff out, and ended up with a movie that you now see in one film. But the idea was always that, yes, John Wick ends his journey like he does at the end of the movie, and that was gonna be the end of that for now.
The director was originally asked his thoughts about the rumor stating that a fifth John Wick film would be produced right after the fourth one, with Stahelski surprised at the fact the internet would think so: "Sometimes, I wake up to things in the industry magazines that are pretty funny. I woke up to that one saying I'm doing a 4 and 5. I think because, at the time in development, we had such a big idea that it was assumed that we’d try to break it.
The result was one final confrontation between John Wick and the High Table, as the secret empire wanted to get rid of him once and for all. Looking at how Wick was able to overcome anyone they sent towards him, the High Table decided to hire Marquis Vincent Bisset de Gramont to make sure the protagonist of the franchise could meet his fate.
Will There Be a 'John Wick 5'? While the idea of Reeves coming back as John Wick for one more adventure sounds exciting, there isn't a fifth movie in development. However, that doesn't mean the franchise is over, with plenty of projects trying to continue this universe's expansion. The Continental, a limited series about the hotel seen in the movies facing explosive action years before John Wick walked through its doors, is now streaming on Peacock.
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