But I'm hopeful.Įrica Lee: There's a lot of other interesting directors out there, and plenty would be great. In what capacity that is or what the story is, I don't know yet. I think we have more story to tell, and are hopeful for a fifth.

I have heard Keanu say that this is the death of John Wick the character, but also, what does that mean? Is that the alias of John Wick? Is that the assassin John Wick? I think the answer is we don't know yet.

Is this really the end for John Wick?Įrica Lee: I hope not. I think I sat there speechless for three minutes. What happened? How did that relationship work? What do they have in common, and how does that make them friends yet also great foes? That's sort of how the character of Caine first came up in the development. But we always loved the idea that there would be this character that John was a contemporary of back in the day. What inspired the idea of having John Wick go up against Donnie Yen's Caine?Įrica Lee: John Wick movies are deeply inspired by Westerns and Samurais, and I think the coda of brotherhood and mentors is something that we wanted to explore in the movies in general. One of my favorite parts of the John Wick storytelling is that we don't explore his past through flashbacks but through relationships. It's been a long decade, and it's amazing that our reviews are so great and the fan feedback is so great. You never have enough time or money, so making it is hard, having it be good is hard, and having anyone see it is hard. It also gets better every movie, which is also very rare.Įrica Lee: Every movie, no matter what, is hard to make. The brand maintenance that we have on this one is very rare. I'm in such rarified air that Chad has directed all four movies. This is a one-in-a-million franchise the love of it, the way that we've been able to grow, and also the fact that there's really a small core team that has worked on all four. It's still so crazy to me, and here we are 10 years later. It was such a labor of love and such an uncertain commodity, the first one, that we really willed to exist. What's been the most surprising aspect of this 10-year journey?Įrica Lee: I'll never get over the fact that it was this spec script that I read that it was independently financed, and the movie fell apart like 10 times.

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