25 John Wick Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

Just when you thought Keanu Reeves couldn't have a trilogy bigger than The Matrix, along comes a little action franchise that John Wick could. The world of assassins is filled with deep mythology, big twists, and plenty of epic action moments. Now let's take advantage. some gold coins to open the curtains and reveal some surprising

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about all three films in the franchise and a quick warning: there

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be major spoilers for John Wick Chapter 3, starting with a first entry and rejoice as the John Wick movies are full fighting. After the fight, everyone usually leads into an epic showdown to help top the brilliant mirror fight scene in John Wick for production.

They put together a huge glass wall inside the Continental for John Luke, Chapter 3. This room alone cost a whopping four million to build. dollars, but we all have to agree that it's definitely worth it, not only did the room cost millions, but Wick destroys most of those glass panels in a fight with Zeros' henchmen before taking Zero himself, the mixing of visual colors and the fight. The choreography prepares us all to upgrade to an 8k TV and see the film in all its glory when it is finally released on home video. For many people, it is difficult to imagine Keanu Reeves without him making a signature quote; while the character does not use the quote in any of the John Wick films, there are many homages throughout the trilogy when John Wick's name is used. often mentions others.

Listen for a simple and subtle response. A slightly slower reaction. Oh oh, Oh's reaction to the name is. It's supposed to represent the signature whoa line and is almost only uttered in response to hearing something about Wyck, well you might not notice it when you first see it. The line becomes really obvious once you start looking for it. Not only is it a nice image, but it really shows how impactful it is. fear in the hearts of those in this world, the Continental not only provided a safe haven for the murderers, but also allowed our characters to interact and converse without the threat of having a gun pointed at them, unless, of course, Whether you're John Wick and the rules don't matter anymore, as we saw in Chapter Two, for Keanu Reeves, a safe haven like that probably looked a little familiar in the movie.

Constantine Reeves had access to another kind of neutral Club where bad things can't happen in DC's supernatural movie. The club was known as Papa Midnight's, in the club people from Heaven and Hell could gather to share drinks and not have to worry about the war between good and evil. We think it's a fun night. Keanu Reeves doesn't just appear in these. John Wick movies to hold a prop gun and plaster his face on movie posters. He is there to make the process as authentic as possible and this includes doing his own stunts thanks to longer takes and wide shots with Reeves doing his own stunts.

Director Chad, hell. Ski has a lot to play with when planning the movie and the action scenes, there are a couple of small exceptions: Can, whose stunts they choose: one, he won't do anything involving getting hit by a car and two, he won't do anything involving. by falling down the stairs, he leaves those dangerous stunts to the professionals and a quick fun fact: The House Key was Reeves' stuntman throughout the entire Matrix trilogy, so these guys have definitely bonded throughout the years. John Wick doesn't just kill hundreds of people. Over the course of three films he does it with style, rivaling James Bond any day.

John Wick has a suit that is both modern and practical. The jacket and pants of the suit are made with a bulletproof material. Costume designer Luca Mosca put a lot of thought into Wick's costume. and finally settled on something that was sleek and simple, much like a Glock pistol for John Lloyd. Chapter two, some adjustments were made to the design, including a higher collar to make John Wick look even more imposing. The simple design and use of blacks also helps add shadows. of mystery for the character of Wick is the world of John Wick connected to Batman, while the prospect sounds incredible, the connection is fun, but don't expect to see the Dark Knight in the background, John Wick

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be seen soon, the connection actually has to do with The Continental, the neutral hotel that appears in all three John Wick films, it may look very similar from the outside.

This is because the exterior of the Continental was also used as the exterior for the stock exchange scenes in Dark Knight Rises, the corner location, and the duel. The stairs are easily recognizable in both films, although the interiors are clearly different. Tom Hardy's John Wick versus Bane tells us in Keanu Reeves we can't escape his past and neither can we after seeing so many matrix connections in these films that we already mentioned, the director sings the Housekey's role as actor and stunt coordinator of The Matrix's Keanu Reeves also co-stars alongside Matrix actors Randall Duke Kim and Daniel Bernhardt, not to mention Laurence Fishburne has signed on to star in John Wick Chapters 2 and 3 and then there are the little moments. in the easter eggs, one of our favorites comes in chapter 3 when Wick requests guns, lots of guns, the infamous Matrix Guns quote, lots of guns, the moment works in both movies, no matter how different they are, Halle Berry was a great addition to John Wick. franchise and although his screen time was relatively short, it had a huge impact and the potential to be greatly expanded in future sequels.

Berry definitely put her completely into the role of Sofia by training for months and being extremely dedicated to her on-screen companions, her dogs. Barry acted as a dog trainer for her canine companions on set, able to give them instructions, guide them and follow cues as needed. The extra time she took is clearly shown on screen, especially after one of them is fatally shot. Barry has praised her time filming the film and opened up many possibilities for the character and her character in the future when you want to hire a tall, burly actor to play the role of a deadly assassin pursuing John Wick.

Where would you turn to the NBA? Of course, the league is full of extremely high talent and the filmmakers of John Wick Chapter Three knew exactly who to call. The production ended up casting the Philadelphia 76er Center boban Mariana vich mariana vich appeared in the library fight scene at the beginning of the film, towering over

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. Through stacks of books, her character was another assassin called Serious and she obviously preferred hand-to-hand combat to try to control Wick, of course the one-on-one battle for Wick was more or less a layup. while destroying Mariana Bates using a book as her main weapon, both in Mariana vich was not the only larger than life athlete in the John Wick films in the first John Wick, the Russian bouncer at the Red Circle Club, is played by a former professional.

Wrestler Kevin Nash, known simply as Francis, the Russian bouncer, clearly has a history with Wick in the past and is freed when Wick enters the nightclub and, although Nash is not Russian, he often seems attracted to the type of character and for the Nash movie from Marvel's The Punisher. He played another Russian henchman, but unlike John Wick, he got physical in The Punisher taking on Frank Castle in a one-on-one fight. The John Wick movies may be about the dogs, but when Chapter 3 began filming, it was clear that the cats wanted it. Its time in the spotlight and a large portion of the film was filmed in Morocco, but the filmmakers ran into an unexpected obstacle: hundreds of stray cats were not only beginning to invade this set but were posing a threat to the family's dogs.

Distracting Sophia. them and piss them off a little while filming once the Chapter Three Blu-ray is released to start checking the high-res background shots to see if any of these few missing lines could have gotten a cameo in the John Wick movies. It always seems top notch, but there are a lot of considerations along the way, for example, Halle Berry's role as Sophia was initially considered for several different actresses, including Marisa Tomei, Jennifer Beal, Penelope Cruz and uma Thurman, who else do you think? could have played the role? and he did well in the original John Wick role of Ian McShane, as Winston was first assigned to Jason Isaak, although there has not been a full explanation given that Isaac eventually left the role that McShane was cast and has played the role. by Winston since then and for chapter 3 by John Luke.

The role of Tic Tac went to comedian Jason Mantzoukas on his podcast How Was This Made? He once expressed his desire to star in a John Wick sequel and his wish came true. Training dogs to act in a movie is difficult enough, especially in a movie. shows like John Wick, where so many shots are fired, he now imagines trying to train a beagle puppy to get the perfect shots and bonding moments in the movie. The young pup will definitely have a hard time following cues that help speed up the bonding process that the filmmakers maintained. Pretty simple stuff in the scene where the beagle licks John Wick's face to wake him up.

Reeves actually had bacon grease rubbed on his face. The aroma and flavors had the pup glued to Reed and helped make his on-screen bond that much stronger once Keanu Reeves. Signed to star in John Wick, he developed many story changes in moments to flesh out the character and chart one of the biggest changes that needed to be made, the character's age in the first draft of the John Wick script originally titled Despised. In reality, Wick was between 60 and 70 years old. His dog was also supposed to be between 17 and 18 years old. Reeves forced some major changes and reworked the plot so that he was still a retired assassin, only he's a little younger.

Making these changes definitely helped with the action and the journey continuing, plus we've already seen the old assassin's story play out many times and movies like those read in the first John Wick, our hero and main character is often referred to as Baba Yaga. or the one who is sent to kill the baby Yaga, the brief explanation in the film describes him as the bogeyman but the fable behind Baba Yaga goes much further than that the Baba Yaga of folklore refers to a witch who lives in a house made of chicken. legs and other chicken parts, the witch is evil, capable of deceiving people and the stories are essentially told to instill fear in all who hear them.

John Wick cleverly uses this title, it's a great way to introduce the character and show what his past is like. deeper than we could have imagined, besides his deceased wife, John Wick seems like a loner, sure he has some allies throughout the trilogy, but there is no mention of extended family. One question we have to ask is if he is related to Tommy Wick. Tommy is a trained wrestler who has to deliver a special package to a mobster in the 2013 film aptly titled on the package Tommy Wick was played by former WWE wrestler and action star Stone Cold Steve Austin and shared last name with John Wick is no coincidence, the screenwriter of John Wick.

Derek Kolstad also wrote the package by purposely giving them both the same last name, so can we expect Stone Cold to team up for John Wick Chapter 4? He knows the Wicks, we certainly hope so, and while the connection to the pack is compelling, John Wick has a connection too. to the film of Mark Wahlberg, the only survivor, but in a very different way, the film was based on former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, who went through a similar incident to Wick when four men came to his house and shot him. his dog in the front yard. Luttrell chased the men.

We knocked them down and trapped them, but the arrival of the police prevented further violence. Revenge for the Dogs helped drive the story we saw with many key elements changed and wrapped around the world of the killers. Basic conclusion, no matter what kind of life you are from, don't mess around. with a man and his dog, if you thought broken noses in Avengers Infinity War took out a lot of people, well, just give John Wick a little more time and he'll start to catch up with the body count in the Avengers trilogy. John Wick, they are crazy about each one.

The movie piled up more piles of bodies in the previous one, so let's break it all down. The first John Wick was definitely at the top of the body count, racking up 91 total kills with 73 involving weapons. John Wick Chapter 2 up to the ante. With one hundred and nineteen total deaths and a large number of bullet casings, Chapter 3 raised the bar higher than ever with guns and knives shooting the total number of one hundred and sixty-seven deaths 124 by firearm, the John Wick trilogy can look like an action movie withoutstop, but the heart and soul of the story definitely belongs to Keanu Reeves in a role he was born to play.

Reeves gives some of his best performances in the film and turns out to draw on real-life tragedies to make. This in 1999, Reeves' son was stillborn after his girlfriend Jennifer Syme went into labor just eight months into his pregnancy. Two years later, Jennifer passed away in a car accident, adding even more pain and loss to Reeves' life. He channels these emotions to show suffering. and the trauma Wyck goes through after losing her puppy and his wife in the same week. One of the most interesting parts about the high table and the world of assassins in the John Wick movies is the lack of police presence, we don't have to worry about the feds. building a case against Wick's undercover agents or any of the typical clichés associated with these types of films, instead the John Wick films avoid the police as much as possible with one exception, Jimmy the Cop in the first John's wig, in chapter two we refer to Jimmy the policeman. which is practically comedic material, investigates a noise complaint when Wick kills a group of men and then comes to interrogate John when his house is burned to the ground by a grenade launcher in Chapter Two due to John's fugue state in the episode.

Chapter Three. Jimmy the cop is not coming back it's just a world full of deadly killers the chase in the wig movies is something to marvel at the writer and director give you just enough information to follow the story while keeping everything moving at breakneck speed it's because That's why one of the most important reasons to stay for the credits is not to wait for a post-credits scene, but to learn the names of the characters in John Wick Chapter 2, Ruby Rose plays a mute assassin who turns out to be a formidable enemy against Wieck. Once the end credits rolled, we quickly learned that her name was Aries, although she is not mentioned in the film and many other characters often. have basic titles for names, this includes the steward or Laurence Fishburne's character, known simply as Bowery King with a name like that, who really needs to know his name in chapter 2 of John Wake, one of the greatest enemies of the week is Casseon, played by actor Kamen.

A hitman is nothing new for the actor, it's a pretty strange role to be typecast, but Kamen has appeared as a hitman in three other films, the first being in the big cast film Smokin Aces and then continuing with Angelina Jolie's Wanted in 2008. and Liam Neeson's 2015 film played all night despite all this experience as an ordinary hitman still can't stand his ground against the almighty John Wick when John Wick defeats some of his Greater enemies often seem at peace as they slowly die and while hundreds of henchmen die in an instant, these great assassins often have time to share a few lines with their ball-dressed foe in the first film.

Viggo says the line I'll see you John after being stabbed. The same line is signed by Aries in In the sequel to Chapter Three, things have changed a bit and zero says the line I'll catch up with you, John. Instead, all of the lines have a similar theme and have become meme-worthy because of it, so where exactly will you see John, perhaps with his big screen-like Constantine, in the depths of the underworld? , just a guess. John Wick has proven time and time again that he doesn't even need guns to kill his enemies in each of the movies, we get to see some truly unique ones. death scenes and with some unique weapons to boot, let's start with chapter 3 of John Wick in the movie.

Wick is able to take out an enemy with just a book and some horses do their own death kicks, not to mention Wick drags a guy to his death while riding a horse also in John Wick Chapter 2 made the infamous scene of The pencil death will come to life when two enemies are stopped with a reliable number to launch some explosions from the first movie and you definitely have a variety of deaths. Eliminating enemies in all sorts of unique ways, the events of each John Wick film have helped set up a sequel and the same could be said for John Luke Chapter 3, while we eagerly await Chapter 4 of this series, there is a spin series -offs and other sequels to consider let's start with the big screen first the producers have already confirmed that the dancer is already being written the film will follow the assassin school presented in Parabellum and will show how these students trained to become deadly assassins on screen girl stay tuned for a series titled Continental that will follow the events of the assassin safe house, both projects are definitely interesting and a great way to expand the John Wick universe or the jwu for short, okay cool now that you've seen it , you have earned it. a coveted gold coin, use it wisely and let us know if there are any other hyped John Wick tidbits we missed, which one is the most surprising.

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