Keanu Reeves Told ‘John Wick 4’ Team ‘I Want to Be Definitively Killed’ at the End, but They Didn’t Listen: ‘We’ll Leave a 10% Little Opening’ for Your Return
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director “John Wick” producer Basil Iwanyk told Collider that Keanu Reeves begged the team behind the long-running action franchise to kill him off at the end of “John Wick: Chapter 4.” It was par for the course for Reeves, who is so physically drained after filming each “John Wick” installment that he rarely is motivated to return for more.
In this case, the producers once again did not entirely listen to their star. “After the second, third, and fourth movie, making these films is so exhausting and it destroys Keanu, physically and emotionally,” Iwanyk said. “By the end, he’s always like, ‘I can’t do this again,’ and we agree with him.
The guy is just a shell of himself because he just goes off and goes for it. He was like, ‘I wanna be definitively killed at the end of this movie.'” “We were like, ‘You know, we’ll leave a 10% little opening,” Iwanyk teased. “John Wick 4” ended with John’s presumable death after competing in a duel to free himself from the High Table.
John gets shot in the third round of the duel and seemingly dies on the steps of the Basilica of Sacré Coeur while seeing a vision of his late wife, Helen.
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