Keanu Reeves Reveals JOHN WICK 2 Plot Details
John Wick was one of 2014's most badass and wicked awesome action films. I loved every freakin' minute of it, and I'm excited for the sequel that's in development. Keanu Reeves is set to reprise his role, and one of the directors of the original film, Chad Stahelski, is coming back to helm the sequel.
We now have some details regarding the plot of the upcoming movie thanks to an interview with Reeves. While talking to Collider, the actor reveals who he'll be fighting for in the story:
“I think we have a really good premise, and it’s an organic premise. It’s basically — to me there’s John Wick and then there’s John. You know, John is the married guy whose wife just died, and that five years of his life. Then there’s John Wick, who’s the mythical assassin. In this, John Wick’s past comes and infiltrates John’s life and John Wick, in a way, has to fight for John.”
So John will be fighting for himself. As for why they feel that they need to tell this story, Reeves says:
“‘Why tell the story? Why do we need to do this again? How do we do that without doing another dog?’ So we speak about John Wick, the next chapter, and what is that emotional hook? What is that? So I think we have a good idea of that."
As for the action that we'll see in the sequel. The actor says he's been training for months to kick ass. The filmmakers are also looking to mix it up by trying some new things:
“We’re gonna do the same kind of thing in the sense of — what are the guiding principles? So it’s longer takes, know where you are on the space, who’s doing what, action with consequence. And then going to other levels of what the gun-Fu was, which was Jujitsu and Judo mixed with weapons and different styles of weapon training. So we’ve been opening up, I’ve been learning some other tools and different styles of that, and trying to develop some more techniques in terms of Judo and Jujitsu and bring those elements into the work. And then we have some other things that might be a little different…But it’s all organic. It’s not like all of a sudden John Wick has superpowers, it’s got to be connected to the character.”
I enjoy watching Reeves fight in his films. The guy is talented as hell. I can't wait to see what he does in this new chapter of the story. At one point in the interview, Reeves is asked if there will be any more sequels in the franchise. He wasn't sure because they need a reason to do it and a good story to tell.
"In terms of a franchise, I don’t know, until you do it and it’s done, you don’t know, because it’s not source material, this is original goodness.”
No release date has been set for John Wick 2 yet, it sounds like it might start shooting at the end of this month. While I wait for the sequel to be released, I'll gladly keep watching the first film over and over again.