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Director Chad Stahelski revealedJohn Wickhad far fewer kill in the original script than what appeared in the last movie . The high - class hitman played by Keanu Reeves in Lionsgate ’s action franchise has bathe nearly 300 people in their own blood so far . The cinema series launched in 2014 with Stahelski’sJohn Wick , and was followed byJohn Wick : Chapter 2 in 2017 andJohn Wick : Chapter 3 - Parabellumin 2019 - both also lead by Stahelski .
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In an interview withComicBook , Stahelski spoke about the originalJohn Wickscript he was sent when he officially room the labor , which was very restrained . In it , only three people died , two of which were killed in a car crash . As he explained :
" It was much more contained . I consider only three people give-up the ghost in the original script , two were in a car crash . It was very , very minimum , and it was slenderly dissimilar . I read it , and I ’d always had this idea about Greek mythology and how to separate more a fablestic kind of story , make a surrealistic military action movie so it was n’t so grounded and grey , just something different . "
In terms of the massive putting to death counts in theJohn Wickmovies , particularly the jump from 80 to over 120 from the first moving picture toJohn Wick 2 , Stahelski said it is n’t designed . Rather , he and his stunt team choreograph the legal action scenes with the apparent motion in mind , rather than the number of bad guys being kill . He said,“People joke about it [ the kill count ] , but the way I choreograph with my guy cable and poppycock , we just choreograph apparent motion and set objet d’art and we seek to get this balletic kind of dance , live performance feel to everything . “The director went on to explain that as a outcome ofReeves ' activity skillsand the desire to labour theJohn Wickaction scenes to be full-grown and more exciting , the kill count of the films has increased :
" I consider , just by nature , because Keanu ’s gotten so much well with the stage dancing and the warlike arts and the motion and we change weapon so much and we get bigger set pieces , that , just by its very nature , because the fit grows , the body numeration grows . But we do n’t start off go , ' Okay , what was in number three ? How do we wash up it for identification number four ? ' We just choreograph and it happens . "
Now , three picture into the franchise , it ’s unmanageable to imagineJohn Wickwithout the monumental kill reckoning , and only three end in that original picture show . Perhaps there would n’t even be aJohn Wick4and5 in the worksif Stahelski had n’t reworked the hand and plough Reeves ' character into the mythic murderer he is in the picture show . Of naturally , there ’s no way to know if that first moving picture would ’ve been just as democratic if the change had n’t been made , but with how successful the franchise has been and continues to be , it would seem Stahelski made the veracious call withJohn taper .
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