If you weren't able to attend our IMAX JohnWick4 screening with KeanuReeves & director ChadStahelski you can now watch the Q&A. They break down how they film the incredible stunts and so much more. Spoilers are discussed.
If you’re a fan of the John Wick franchise and are curious about how Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski pulled off the jaw dropping stunts in John Wick: Chapter 4, then you’re in the right place.
COLLIDER: All right, you guys have put on screen some incredible action set pieces, and I am curious, with the four films, what do you think were the top three in terms of the difficulty from staging, filming, everything that went into a training? What were the top three? STAHELSKI: No, we forgot that we had trains. So we had to do a horse chase under trains. Horses don't like trains.STAHELSKI: So every 20 minutes the train would come by and the horses would have to take off.
I'm trying to think. Number two, its end of second act, and number three, we had to find a little bit with all the montage stuff. But I think number three was where we shifted story a little bit more in editing to really streamline it. I think number three, we're just under two hours on that one. So, I think that was probably the most streamlined one we had.
STAHELSKI: I don't know, I think there are some pretty funny scenes I think that we did that will probably get released at some point. I don't know if it'll be part of another cut, but I don't know, we'll see how we do on Monday. And then we took that idea of movable walls and we just went, “Well, we did it with people, let's do it with cars,” and that's how we did it with the Arc de Triomphe.
And how long before you step on set? Are you training for that? Practicing for that? All the extras are practicing and how much is all being figured out right there on set?REEVES: Yeah. So when they were filming Hiroki and, and Donny Yen scene when they're having their showdown in the Osaka Continental in the beginning of the film, I was in another room where we were filming in Berlin just training and learning choreography, because my fight scene was up after that.
So we started developing the four point flying system that we flew the camera on and then we had to build the set that was at the right height and we needed the staircase, so we saw Keanu come up. So, you know, it's him and we just kind of telescope up and just kind of live in that world for a little bit kind of video game-y, but it also gives it that different perspective. So you actually see the tactical gun fu going on.
REEVES: Yeah, I mean, I love the humor. Thank you, thank you. I love the humor of the scene. I liked that he's just kind of looking at that thing, at Sisyphus, at Buster Keaton. So I thought there was humor in it. It’s physically challenging, but we lucked out with some pretty good weather. It wasn't too cold and it was nice.REEVES: And then the wet downs. But, you know, it's a really fun sequence to do and it was really cool to actually do it solo.
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