"John Wick," the 2014 action movie starred by Keanu Reeves, will have a sequel, and filming is reported to start late this month. For everybody who doesn't have an idea what the movie is about, it's a revenge-fueled gun-fu movie with top-notch fight sequences that makes good use of Reeves' acting talents.
Cinema Blend reports that co-director Chad Stahelski said a few months ago that they wanted to look for reasons why people would want the sequel. After all, although the first movie was great, it wasn't known for its character development.
Stahelski told Movies.com, "We want to make sure we have a story and a character that everybody loves and then we’ll dress it with action that we promise will be awesome."
Now months later, Reeves spills some beans over the storyline that the sequel will have in an interview with Collider.
"I think we have a really good premise, and it’s an organic premise. It’s basically—to me there’s John Wick and then there’s John. John is the married guy whose wife just died, and that five years of his life. Then there’s John Wick, who’s the mythical assassin. In this, John Wick’s past comes and infiltrates John’s life and John Wick, in a way, has to fight for John."
He added that the story aims to keep the story going without re-using the same emotional beats as the first movie.
“'Why tell the story? Why do we need to do this again? How do we do that without doing another dog?’ So we speak about John Wick, the next chapter, and what is that emotional hook? What is that? So I think we have a good idea of that."
Reeves also gave some clues as to his preparations for the sequel.
"So we’ve been opening up, I’ve been learning some other tools and different styles of that, and trying to develop some more techniques in terms of Judo and Jujitsu and bring those elements into the work. And then we have some other things that might be a little different…But it’s all organic."
There you have it. John Wick 2 is scheduled for release sometime in 2017, according to DateReliz.com.
John Wick stars Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyvquist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Winters, with Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe.
It is written by Derek Kolstad, and directed by Chad Stahelski.
