Keanu Reeves John Wick: Chapter 4

As the actor said during a post-screening Q&A at the SXSW Film Festival, “When Chad and I were talking about it, the 'why' is death, and it was John Wick's dead ...

Whether or not a fifth movies come to fruition, the “John Wick” franchise will continue in 2024 with the Ana de Armas-starring spinoff “Ballerina,” which features Reeves’ assassin in a supporting role. [Entertainment Weekly ](https://ew.com/movies/keanu-reeves-end-john-wick-chapter-4-future-franchise/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=641f63a3cb00fe0001c09ddc)when asked if John is dead or if he’ll return for a fifth “John Wick” movie. John Wick’s potential death was the driving force behind Reeves’ interest in making “John Wick: Chapter 4.” As the actor said during a post-screening Q&A at the SXSW Film Festival, “When Chad and I were talking about it, the ‘why’ is death, and it was John Wick’s dead. Moviegoers see John hunched over on the steps, and then there’s a scene of Winston (Ian McShane) and the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) visiting John’s gravestone. John sees a vision of his late wife, Helen, while on the steps of the Basilica of Sacré Coeur and seemingly succumbs to his gunshot wounds. Caine shoots John and John seemingly misses Caine during the third round of the duel, but John was merely saving his final bullet to kill the Marquis instead.

John Wick may appear to be indestructible, a ruthless assassin who takes a licking and keeps on killing. But for Keanu Reeves, playing him is no picnic.

As Indiana Jones famously says in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “It’s not the years, honey. Fury of the Gods.” “I was incredibly brave and didn’t say anything or complain because I wanted to be a real stunty person,” Mirren told British talk show host Graham Norton. My hope is that seeing older actors taking on these these roles helps people to understand that aging is variable and expands our understanding of what aging can mean.” “It’s not just that the business isn’t generating younger action stars; the business isn’t generating younger stars, period,” says Stephen Galloway, dean of Chapman University’s film school. “When you have the resources to engage in regular physical activity, you’re going to age better across the board, whether we’re talking about cognitive functioning, psychological well-being or delaying the onset of disease and disability.” The more expensive the movie becomes, the harder it is to give a young star a break because that star isn’t tested.” Or, for that matter, 59-year-old Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen, who has a breakout turn as a blind assassin in “John Wick 4.” “The success of ‘Everything Everywhere’ and now ‘John Wick 4’ proves that actors of any age — and regardless of gender — can kick ass and take names and if the movie is appealing and entertaining, audiences of any age enthusiastically want to go along for that cinematic thrill ride,” says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore Inc. Actor Carroll O’Connor was just 47 when he began playing the crotchety Archie Bunker on TV’s “All in the Family” in 1971. Wilford Brimley was only 51 when he starred in 1985’s “Cocoon,” about a group of elderly retirees rejuvenated by aliens. Fifteen years after then-55-year-old Liam Neeson showed off his particular set of skills in “Taken,” the trend toward older actors headlining action films — what some have come to term the “geriaction” genre — has only picked up steam. Speaking to an adoring crowd earlier this month after the latest installment, “John Wick: Chapter 4,”

Posted March 27, 2023, 8:05 p.m.. Warning: The below contains full spoilers for John Wick: Chapter 4. Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Joe Drake ...

[checking out John Wick: Chapter 4](/john-wick-chapter-4/196918/feature/how-to-watch-john-wick-chapter-4-showtimes-and-streaming-status). However, this won't be the last time we see Reeves' legendary hitman as the franchise is still expanding. The franchise has grown in popularity with each new entry, and Drake is keen for Reeves to reprise the role again.

John Wick: Chapter 4 has a post-credits scene alluding to a follow-up with Akira, but the movie also sets up two other spin-off projects.

John Wick: Chapter 4 makes more of an obvious effort to set up The Continental. Ultimately, Ballerina is a John Wick: Chapter 4 prequel, as it takes place between John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum and the fourquel. However, Keanu Reeves isn't confirmed to feature in the series, and given what is While movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and other huge franchises tease future characters in their post-credits scenes, John Wick: Chapter 4 does no such thing. The movie's post-credit scene hints at a future film following Akira avenging her father's death, and while there are no direct references, John Wick: Chapter 4 also teases two more projects that are well into development. [John Wick: Chapter 4](https://screenrant.com/tag/john-wick-4/) has a surprisingly definitive ending to John Wick's story, but it still sets up an expanded universe, including the two confirmed spin-offs, which could see Reeves return as the assassin.

“Give me a name,” Wick growls in a typical exchange. It leads him to an 8-minute fight sequence in a cavernous Berlin disco packed with gyrating dancers.

Stunt coordinator Scott Rogers explains Keanu Reeves' extensive training regimen to pull off John Wick: Chapter 4's Arc de Triomphe car action.

Reeves being able to do his own action scenes means the entire approach to filming a John Wick movie can change. There’s a reason Keanu Reeves is a movie star, because we want to see Keanu Reeves do what Keanu Reeves does. Much of this training and the crafting of the specifics of the sequence actually took place about a year in advance of filming, in keeping with Stahelski's adherence to long prep times.

Lionsgate's latest action movie "John Wick: Chapter 4", starring Keanu Reeves as a renowned hitman, had a fantastic opening weekend, earning an impressive ...

However, [Warner](/topic/warner)Bros. State-run banks will within two weeks submit to the government a detailed scenario-mapped plan of various business risks, people familiar with the development told ET. [Paul Dergarabedian](/topic/paul-dergarabedian)notes that March 2023 has been a remarkable month for movies. [Franchise Entertainment Research](/topic/franchise-entertainment-research)called it a "superb opening," noting the impressive growth of each "John Wick" sequel. The "John Wick" series, however, is an exception. The film's global earnings stand at $137.5 million, despite its production cost of over $100 million, the highest in the franchise.

This post contains spoilers for "John Wick: Chapter 4." In an incredibly rare feat for the fourth entry in a high-profile action franchise, "John Wick: ...

After "John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum," Wick is left without a choice and has to take on the Herculean task of literally killing everyone that could ever bring him back into the fold. "That would seem like the only reason to make it, you know what I mean? He does the impossible, then just flat out dies of exhaustion. With John Wick going up against his biggest challenge by far in "Chapter 4," there was a natural direction that the story took to remind audiences that there was still a man at the core of the myth. Each movie has upped the ante and expanded the rules of this unique world of assassins without undermining the action or jeopardizing John Wick as a character. [delivered the best box office of the entire series](https://www.slashfilm.com/1239910/john-wick-chapter-4-headshots-new-franchise-record-at-the-box-office-with-73-5-million-debut/) with $73.5 million with a global cume of $137.5 million, according to [Box Office Mojo](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2023W12/?ref_=bo_hm_rw).

John Wick: Chapter 4," starring Keanu Reeves, made a killing at the box office its first weekend. And the CEO of its studio, Lionsgate, is hungry for more.

“I mean, I wouldn’t do a John Wick film without [director] Chad Stahelski. The bloody action flick also stars Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane and Bill Skarsgård. “John Wick: Chapter 4” made a killing at the box office its first weekend — and the CEO of its studio, Lionsgate, is hungry for more.

EXCLUSIVE: Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Hollywood swore off the booming and lucrative box office territory, ...

A translated version of the article reads: “It is promised that the movie will be professionally dubbed in 4k quality. The second-biggest grosser was the Guy Ritchie-directed Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre with $7.2M (now an estimated $9.7M). The only problem is that it will be 2D, without glasses and immersion. However, it’s Deadline’s understanding that, unlike John Wick, there is no pre-existing agreement to distribute the Hunger Games prequel in Russia. That non-sanctioned distributor releasing John Wick: Chapter 4 in Russia was Unicorn Media Limited, a Maltese company that is not sanctioned and with which Lionsgate has had a previous working relationship. That movie, released by Global Film in Russia, opened to $310,5K and finaled at $1.1M We found only one cinema that promises full-fledged 3D, but not everyone will be able to enjoy this spectacle — the screenings will be in Krasnoyarsk.” The report further noted that in Yakutsk, “Cinema-Center guarantees high quality copies, but, unfortunately, only in 2D.” Drake told Deadline that the studio worked with the U.S. While Lionsgate had the Gerard Butler movie Plane and the Guy-directed action title Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre stateside, those pics’ Russian releases weren’t pre-sold by the studio. Lionsgate’s Russian presales on John Wick: Chapter 4 predated the country’s invasion of Ukraine last year. The U.S. Worldwide, off 71 offshore territories, John Wick: Chapter 4 posted a [ franchise-record opening of $137.5M, $73.8M domestic](https://deadline.com/2023/03/box-office-john-wick-chapter-4-keanu-reeves-1235309015/).

"John Wick: Chapter 4" may run nearly three hours, but Keanu Reeves only says 380 words across 103 lines of dialogue.

John Wick’s longest run of dialogue in the movie is just a sentence. Of course, what John Wick lacks in dialogue he more than makes up for in grueling action scenes where Reeves’ body is put through the wringer. “John Wick: Chapter 4” director Chad Stahelski and Reeves “stripped out roughly half the dialogue written for his character in the initial script.” The scene in which John Wick and the villainous Marquis de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård) hash out the rules of their duel was scripted with Wick having 50% of the dialogue in the scene, for instance. The actor had to learn how to do a reverse 180 and drift all while reloading his prop gun and shooting it out of the door. Nearly a third of Reeves’ dialogue in the sequel consists of just one single word. John Wick is a man of few words.

John Wick 5 is now a possibility after Chapter 4's big opening weekend at the box office. Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski are behind the movies.

He said the studio’s response to killing off Wick was — in his words — “what are you fucking thinking?” And we’re talking about a couple of others that he could certainly participate in,” said Drake. That SXSW screening was key to the final push of marketing campaign that even rivals commended. Nor is it lost on Reeves that John Wick 4 is the second-best domestic opening of his live-action career behind The Matrix Reloaded, which started off with $91.8 domestically two decades ago in 2003. Nor should the studio.” But on Sunday, Lionsgate’s Drake told The Hollywood Reporter that a John Wick 5 is no longer out of the question. He shows up in Ballerina, the series’ first spinoff that stars Ana de Armas as another determined assassin. Making a fifth installment of John Wick is no small challenge considering that Reeves’ character seemingly meets his demise the end of Chapter 4. “We’re all going to take a tiny rest here and then scratch at ideas about whether there’s a credible way to get into five. Drake noted, “Keanu and Chad, rightly so, are very protective about never screwing with the audience. Overseas, the results were just as impressive, where the movie debuted to a resounding $67.6 million from 71 markets for a global start of $141.4 million, a series record on all fronts. “There’s a will and there’s an openness.

From the video game that helped inspire it to the countdown method that made it work, here's how Chad Stahelski and his stunt crew choreographed the ...

And the camera was in a very specific place at a very specific time when [each action beat] had to take place. And we do it partly because I really believed me and my crew would love it. I need to be there, because the camera’s going to be at a very specific spot. We did it partly because we thought the audience would love it. Rogers: And they had to act like they didn’t know what was happening. We did some testing; I wanted to do all the muzzle flashes on a vertical plane, so it felt different. So I tried “video games top shot,” and way down at the bottom was Hong Kong Massacre. We flew a camera that was designed — and the camera moves were designed — in correlation with the choreography. We were doing the Osaka sequence while prepping the top shot in France, and also trying to find time to get Keanu driving. And from the Osaka sequence, we went straight into the Berlin nightclub, and then Jordan on top of that. So those of us that are charged with doing the action, that’s what we’re doing in each scene, whether it’s in the club scene with the falls and the fights and the water and the dogs and all of that, that’s no less or more challenging than the cars hitting the people. Director [Chad Stahelski](https://www.polygon.com/23653326/lance-reddick-memorial-john-wick-4-director) was a longtime stunt man and then stunt coordinator before making his directorial debut with John Wick in 2014, and he’s turned the franchise into a showcase for ambitious fight sequences.

Keanu Reeves "had to do all the choreography" for handling his shotgun in 'John Wick: Chapter 4' and had an "awesome" time filming with the firearm.

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The director called the complicated sequence the most stressful in "a hundred nights" of complex action scenes.

John Wick: Chapter 4’s attempt to outdo itself as the most complex film of the action tetralogy opened in theaters this weekend to a franchise record-breaking $73.5 million opening weekend. Adding to the climactic absurdity of the film sequence, Stahelski added “And if that doesn't get you, throw in a couple of dogs! If you want to give yourself a little bit of stress, that's a good way to do it.” I've got two camera crews in the middle of that traffic” explained the director. And if that still doesn't do it, have your lead actor drive 40 miles an hour in an open-door Barracuda against traffic! The stuntman and film director has worked on The Crow and The Matrix trilogy, stunting for Keanu Reeves before directed the actor in his first three films of the John Wick trilogy.

The “John Wick” series has come a long way from an ex-hitman seeking revenge for the killing of his dog, the last gift he received from his wife before her ...

Audiences that want variety may find themselves looking for more, but those happy with the fight sequences in previous “Wick” films are sure to be more than overjoyed at “John Wick: Chapter 4.” The fight choreography has always been a driving factor behind the success of the “John Wick” movies, but like the cinematography, “John Wick: Chapter 4” goes bigger and better. In “John Wick: Chapter 4,” Wick (Keanu Reeves) finds himself once again on the run from The High Table, the governing council of crime underlords and assassins under which Wick was once employed.

The fourth installment of the John Wick saga clocks in at 169 minutes and Reeves says only 380 words throughout the film directed by Chad Stahelski. Almost a ...

Stahelski revealed that Wick doesn’t have a lot of dialogue because “Mr. Almost a third of Wick’s dialogue consists of just one word like, “Yeah.” A report from [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-wick-chapter-four-keanu-reeves-dialogue-a1566ca3) counted all the words Wick uttered throughout the film and he seemingly didn’t have a lot to say, but there was a whole lot to see.

John Wick: Chapter 4 sees Keanu Reeves' titular assassin speak fewer than 400 words after the actor and director Chad Stahelski altered the script.

[Reeves's future in the franchise](https://www.cbr.com/john-wick-keanu-reeves-lionsgate-wants-more-sequels/), stating that the studio was "not ready to say goodbye" to the character. At the moment, there are two planned spinoffs for the franchise: [The Ballerina](https://www.cbr.com/john-wick-spinoff-ballerina-2024-release-window/), starring Ana de Armas, and a prequel series titled The Continental. This is despite Chapter 4 seemingly [concluding John Wick's story](https://www.cbr.com/john-wick-death-director-interpretation/) with the character's apparent death at the end of the film. [Hiroyuki Sanada](https://www.cbr.com/john-wick-4-shamier-anderson-hiroyuki-sanada-interview/)'s Shimazu Koji, the Osaka Continental Hotel's frontman, wherein he says, "You and I left a good life behind a long time ago, my friend." [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-wick-chapter-four-keanu-reeves-dialogue-a1566ca3), Reeves and director Chad Stahelski dropped almost half of John Wick's dialogue for the fourth film. It was also reported that 10% of those 380 words spoken by John Wick in Chapter 4 appeared in the film's trailer.

The film's co-screenwriter Michael Finch says it's by design, as Reeves and director Chad Stahelski removed “roughly half the dialogue written for his character ...

To put that in comparison, the first film had Reeves saying a total of 484 words across 101 minutes. Nearly a third of Reeves’ dialogue in the sequel consists of repeating one word. The fourth film’s trailer features about 10% of Keanu’s dialogue from the film – with the character saying more in that clip than he does in the film’s first 25 minutes.

The fourth instalment of the action thriller franchise, which is 169 minutes long, sees Reeves speak very few lines of dialogue, almost a third of which ...

The fourth instalment of the action thriller franchise, which is 169 minutes long, sees Reeves speak very few lines of dialogue, almost a third of which ...

[Reeves recalled accidentally cutting a stuntman’s head open](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/keanu-reeves-john-wick-4-stunts-b2307844.html) on John Wick 4. “Overseen by stunt coordinator Scott Rogers, the action sequences here are better described as massacre marathons. [Read the full story here.](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/keanu-reeves-john-wick-4-stunts-b2307844.html)

"John Wick: Chapter 4" writer Michael Finch said that Keanu Reeves was involved in writing the script for the new movie.

The report also added that Wick says an average of four words per line in the fourth film. ](https://www.insider.com/john-wick-films-director-make-two-four-2023-3) However, the actor obviously does a lot more than just recite lines in each movie, as there's a mind-boggling amount of stunt work that goes into the character because of his determined nature. No quarter." "John Wick: Chapter 4" cowriter Michael Finch told the WSJ that it's surprising how little Reeves wants to talk in the "John Wick" movies. - A new report points out that Keanu Reeves only speaks 380 words in "John Wick: Chapter 4." Wick has always been the strong and silent type, but he speaks mostly in compact sentences and singular words in "Chapter 4."

Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski removed around half of the titular assassin's dialogue from the original script for John Wick: Chapter 4.

Co-writer Michael Finch, who penned the script with Shay Hatten, tells the outlet that Reeves personally trimmed a bulk of the film's dialogue along with director Chad Stahelski. The report notes that this is a sharp contrast to the original John Wick film, where Reeves said 484 words in just 101 minutes, demonstrating how the deadly killers has changed over the course of the series. In the span of 169 minutes, or just a bit shy of three hours, Reeves has 103 lines of dialogue, ultimately saying just 380 words in total by the end of the film.

The latest 'John Wick' might be the most entertaining chapter yet—and one of the best action films in recent memory. It required the creative minds behind ...

Reeves, meanwhile, is in the midst of a [Keanussaince](https://ew.com/movies/2019/06/03/keanu-reeves-fever/) that’s been largely spurred by the success of the John Wick movies. In a blockbuster era defined by superheroes and remakes, John Wick came out of the blue with a risky proposition—killing off a puppy to fuel a revenge saga—that ended up revitalizing a beloved movie star’s career while delivering some of the most stunning action sequences of the past decade. [Highlander reboot](https://deadline.com/2021/05/henry-cavill-lionsgates-highlander-reboot-chad-stahelski-1234761916/) and film adaptations of the [Ghost of Tsushima](https://deadline.com/2021/03/sony-playstation-productions-ghost-of-tsushima-movie-john-wicks-chad-stahelski-directing-1234721342/) video game and [Rainbow Six](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/michael-b-jordan-rainbow-six-movie-chad-stahelski-1235293749/) novel. It was time for Wick to return the favor and to put the interests of a friend ahead of his own. While Stahelski and the screenwriters admit that Lionsgate had reservations about one of its biggest franchises killing off its main character, the door is always open for Wick to return. The director and star kept coming back to the idea of Wick reaching some kind of redemption. “No matter how you cut it, no matter what you think of the color and the story and the action, it hangs on him,” Stahelski says. After the parameters of their duel are negotiated in Paris—a reluctant Caine is nominated to compete on behalf of the Marquis—the showdown is scheduled for the following morning at the entrance of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica. Even so, the prospect of Wick ever dying felt like a deal breaker: when his kill count in a single movie can hit the But the glorious excess of Chapter 4 is in line with the trajectory of these films, which began with Wick effectively wiping out an entire eastern European syndicate to (righteously!) avenge the death of his puppy. But the Marquis is banking on Wick never making it to the duel; he places a massive bounty on his head that alerts every Parisian hit man to the Baba Yaga’s presence in the city. Ever since the first John Wick had the audacity to open with the devastating death of the eponymous hit man’s puppy—a gift from Wick’s late wife meant to open his heart to love again—the franchise has worked overtime to reassure the audience that this is a pro-dog enterprise.

His travels take him to Osaka, Berlin, and ultimately Paris, where he seeks to destroy the Marquis, the man hired by the Table to dispatch John. At the end of ...

Stahelski and his team choreograph these scenes in a manner that forces the audience to keep the environment in focus. [steps](https://worldinparis.com/interesting-facts-about-the-sacre-coeur-montmartre) leading up to the church, and John has to fight his way up them. While this is likely the last John Wick, spinoffs aside, I am grateful that I was able to experience seeing all four entries theatrically. We still have the greatest achievement of the film on the horizon, the Sacre Coeur stairs scene. Directed by [Chad Stahelski](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821432/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0), Keanu Reeves’ former stuntman on [“The Matrix,”](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/) [“John Wick: Chapter 4”](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10366206/) is the latest entry into this original action thriller franchise that has thus far dominated both critically and popularly. In this clearly third act, John is given one task: to get to the top of Sacre-Coeur before sunrise. As if following a scene like that is even possible, “Chapter 4” continues to elevate itself with its next action sequence. Here, Stahelski gives us the best individual action moment since [“Mad Max: Fury Road.”](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/) Killa and Wick fight surrounded by waterfalls amid the raving crowds of intentionally oblivious dancers, all to the sound of pounding techno music. [Donnie Yen](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947447/) directed the action throughout the sequence sets a new bar for how action should be done in Hollywood. His allies are the former manager of the New York Continental Winston, the Bowery King, and the friends he has made in his decades involved in the assassin trade. [Scott Adkins](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012078/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0), in revenge for the death of Pyotr, John’s mentor in the Slavic underworld. [“Yeah, I’m thinking I’m back.” ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSfpoSrCGsQ)After a long four year hiatus, precipitated by the pandemic and other conflicts, John Wick ( [Keanu Reeves](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000206/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)) has returned.

Per WSJ, “In the first installment, clocking in at 101 minutes, Mr Reeves said a total of 484 words. With a run time of 169 minutes, the fourth movie pushes ...

[meWATCH](https://www.mewatch.sg/season/8-Days-Interviews-33082#.Y3tSzibPAZI.link) and [Mediacorp Entertainment on YouTube. Another spin-off, The Continental, looks at how Winston, McShane’s character, landed the job of running the assassin sanctuary/hotel, in the 1970s. Meanwhile, Wick is expected to turn up in Ballerina, the series’ first spin-off with Ana de Armas as another vengeance-seeking assassin. Meanwhile, John Wick: Chapter 4, which reportedly cost US$100 million (S$132 mil) to make, slain the global box-office in its opening weekend. “I feel like his ‘yeah’s are like taking a lot of information and feeling and it kind of encapsulates a lot with one word.” For instance, the scene in which Wick and baddie Marquis de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård) lay out the rules of their final duel was originally scripted with Wick having 50% of the dialogue.

According to a new report, about half of Keanu Reeves' dialogue in director Chad Stahelski's John Wick: Chapter 4 was cut from the initial script.

The important thing to know about Wick is that he's a man who is still grieving his wife, Helen. The focus in a John Wick film is very much on the action. While Wick is known for his prowess with a gun and variety of other weapons, the latest entry in the franchise is further proof that the assassin is very much a man of action above all else, often offering up only monosyllabic responses.

Keanu Reeves says staggeringly few words of dialogue in the nearly 3-hour runtime of his latest film, John Wick: Chapter 4.

No one really loves Keanu Reeves in this movie franchise because of all the witty lines he gets to say. [Chad Stahelski and Lionsgate delivered](https://nerdist.com/article/lionsgate-wants-keanu-reeves-to-star-in-more-john-wick-movies-spinoffs/). All of this was designed to be this way. [us here at Nerdist](https://nerdist.com/article/john-wick-chapter-4-review-film-offers-franchise-high-and-is-one-of-the-best-action-movies-ever/), one of the best action movies ever made, “action” is the operative word here. In fact, John Wick’s longest run of dialogue is only one full sentence. Actually, he says only 380 words across 103 lines of dialogue, according to a report in [Variety](https://variety.com/2023/film/news/keanu-reeves-cut-john-wick-4-dialogue-actor-says-380-words-1235565814/) (via [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-wick-chapter-four-keanu-reeves-dialogue-a1566ca3)).

John Wick: Chapter 4,” the fourth installment in the Keanu Reeves assassin series, debuted with a franchise-best $73.5 million at the box office.

While Keanu Reeves is not known for delivering long monologues as John Wick, he speaks shockingly little in Chapter 4.

Chapter 4 is such a success that Lionsgate is now considering a fifth installment in the franchise, according to Lionsgate’s motion picture group chair Joe Drake, who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about [the possibility of what’s the come](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/john-wick-5-back-on-the-table-box-office-blowup-1235361085/). In a 169-minute film, John Wick speaks a total of 380 words — nearly a third of those are just one word — and 10% of them are used in the film’s trailer. [Keanu Reeves](https://clutchpoints.com/keanu-reeves-net-worth), is a man of few words. “We’re all going to take a tiny rest here and then scratch at ideas about whether there’s a credible way to get into five. The longest line said by Wick is when he’s speaking to Shimazu Koji (played by Hiroyuki Sanada) and says, “You and I left a good life behind a long time ago, my friend,” according to the same WSJ report. You can thank Keanu Reeves himself for that change.

When actors of this caliber are game for an independently produced action flick, you figure it's got a bit more on the ball than a dashed-off, DTV affair. The ...

So it might sound one way when somebody else has it, but when Wick has it, it might get a little bit more low frequency or it might get a little bit bigger just to accentuate a little bit more. The best sound designers and editors understand the importance of particularization. In an interview with /Film's Ryan Scott, the "John Wick: Chapter 4" sound team of Casey Genton and Mark Stoeckinger revealed that Wick's guns fire differently. You always know where you are at every moment of the sequence. When actors of this caliber are game for an independently produced action flick, you figure it's got a bit more on the ball than a dashed-off, DTV affair. There are numerous reasons why "John Wick" has become one of the most surprisingly successful action franchises of the last 20 years.

This post contains spoilers for "John Wick: Chapter 4." All right now, for all you boppers out there in /Film land — just how much movie is "John Wick: ...

[Chad Stahelski's desire to make John Wick a mythological figure,](https://www.slashfilm.com/1233260/john-wick-4-is-a-big-bloody-riff-on-odysseus-and-greek-myth/) from his nickname of "Baba Yaga" in the first film to the end of his Paris gauntlet in this movie, which serves as a visual representation of the Sisyphus myth. Although Wick's bop through the streets of Paris doesn't see him encounter foes quite as colorful as the Warriors do during their journey, one could argue that the entirety of the "John Wick" saga features more than enough comic-book-like enemies to make the "Warriors" homage complete. The bulk of the film follows the remaining Warriors, led by war chief Swan (Michael Beck), as they attempt to reach their home turf while avoiding the Riffs, scores of other colorful (and dangerous) gangs, and the police. To ensure Wick's lateness, the Marquis puts out a contract on Wick to all the killers of Paris, which means John must bop his way through the streets to reach the Sacré-Cœur on time. With the Riffs putting out word that the Warriors are to be taken dead or alive before they reach their home in Brooklyn, the gang must fight (or "bop," as the term is coined) their way back down through the city. For anyone looking at the film's runtime worried that it would be one simple story stretched out to a huge length, fret not — "Chapter 4" is an epic in the old-school sense of the term, hopping around the globe with its titular assassin (played once again with brooding intensity by Keanu Reeves) as he faces a series of new and increasingly difficult challenges.

By using video game logic to bring its action to life, John Wick: Chapter 4 delivers the best franchise installment yet.

And by doing so, John Wick: Chapter 4 delivers some of the best moments in the history of action cinema. While the franchise is no stranger to video game logic, John Wick: Chapter 4 takes things to a new level by pushing the boundaries of how cinema can actively incorporate elements from other mediums. And that's precisely what all the named assassins in John Wick: Chapter 4 are, significant challenges for Reeves to slowly take down, as they also have a huge health bar compared to simple enemies. That's video game logic to its core and something that highly improves the franchise. And that is why Chapter 4 is the [best movie in the whole franchise](https://collider.com/john-wick-chapter-4-review/). It's straightforward to detect when the film is on a "cutscene" moment or a "playable" one. [more set pieces than any other movie in the franchise](https://collider.com/keanu-reeves-john-wick-chapter-4-interview/). Boss battles are often the highlight of a video game, a challenging obstacle that tests the player's skill. All that matters for us, as players, is that the health bar doesn't get fully depleted, which would cause a game over. However, contrary to film, a video game is an interactable medium through which a player experiences the story by constantly making choices. For instance, the endurance of a player's character is not affected by the actual damage they sustain. With [John Wick: Chapter 4](https://collider.com/tag/john-wick-chapter-4/) now available, we can say for sure that video game logic is to blame, as the latest adventure of Reeves' assassin embraces AAA games structure with renewed determination.