The Only Murders In The Building actor invested in the film less than 24 hours before it would have shut down.
“We were less than a week out and we lost almost $6 million on a gap financing,” Stahelski said. “We were financing independently to get the bond, but one of the investors couldn’t raise the money in time.” At that point, both directors and Keanu Reeves had already put their personal money into the film, while producer Basil Iwanyk had apparently maxed out three of his personal credit cards. It wasn’t enough.
Facing the possibility of John Wick putting his suit back in the closet forever, Leitch said CAA, which was putting the film’s financing together, offered some actors the opportunity to get involved. “You’ll be first out of this waterfall, you’ll get your money back then X amount,” he recalled them saying. Apparently, “Eva was like, ‘Cool!'”
“She came to the rescue and she provided the gap financing,” Stahelski continued. All $6 million of it, which Iwanyk didn’t tell the directors and Reeves at first. “Literally less than 24 hours before we had to lock the doors on the movie and walk away, Basil said, ‘We’ve got the investor, we’ve locked the gap,'” he recalled. They didn’t find out who it was until the end of production, when the producer took them out to dinner and “we were laughing about all the bullshit that happened.
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