The “John Wick” movies are additionally, Lee acknowledges, a mounting train in making an attempt to outdo what got here earlier than. “Chapter 3” needed to be even longer and bigger than “Chapter 2.” No marvel “Chapter 4” is as huge as it’s. Whereas brainstorming, Lee mentioned, Stahelski would provide you with one wild concept and, it appears, it could go instantly into the brand new film. It appears Lee was keen to entertain any wild concept that originally made the film larger. She mentioned:
“I believe after the third movie we had been like, ‘Oh my God, we are able to by no means do that once more.’ After which I will always remember, Chad and I had lunch sooner or later and he was like, ‘I am considering Japan. I am considering nunchucks and snow. Have you ever seen what they’ll do with snowmobiles lately?’ And I used to be like, ‘Okay, now we have a film.’ It was such small items however I might simply see the wheels in his mind spinning, and we had been off to the races at that time.”
Certainly, among the 12 months’s new snowmobiles look fairly cool. In a bizarre stroke of luck, COVID-related delays and a scheduling battle allowed Lee and the opposite “John Wick” filmmakers to essentially suss out their story and resolve which motion sequences can be most sensible. Lee mentioned:
“Then there was Covid, however the good or the unhealthy of it was that it gave us additionally some extra time to develop the script and work on it. And Keanu did ‘The Matrix [Resurrections],’ in order that modified. We had a bit of bit extra time in between than we usually do.”
The marinating allowed Lee and Stahelski to make an motion epic that earned $73.5 million in its opening weekend.
No snowmobiles, sadly, however a powerful feat nonetheless.