John Wick Chad Stahelski’s director is not holding up on the Continental – “Our opinion was not really noticed”

The world of John Wick it is built on a very specific recipe … a part Keanu ReevesA part of the kinetic struggle choreography and a lot of visual touch drawn by souls, western of spaghetti and criminal films of the 70s.

According to the director Chad StahelskiPeacock’s creators The continental I have lost almost all this.

While Dancer The first big screen spin-off with a short return from Reeves, finds his foot in the cinemas, Stahelski is not undermining words on the television program that has tried to expand the Wickverse without him.

In a recent conversation with the Hollywood journalist, he pulled the curtain back on how detached he and Reeves was The continentalAnd how the final product seemed far from what they had built. Stahelski explained:

“Keanu and I were – I wouldn’t say aside, but our opinion was listened to and not really noticed. They tried to convince me that they knew what they were doing. A group of people thought they had magic sauce.

“But if he eliminates the intuitive of Basil Iwanyk, if he eliminates Keanu’s way of delivering eccentric dialogues and if I bring out all the visual elements that I have in my head from Wong Kar-Wai, souls, Leone, Bernardo Bertucci or Andrei Tchaikovsky … then it’s not the same thing.

“They thought it was easy how to use anamorphic lenses, make a Kooky hotel, put in strange dialogue and insert the drama of the crime.”

That disconnection shows. While The continental he had talents like Mel Gibson AND Colin Woodell Attached, he went and came with little fanfare, a blip in a franchise known for his pop-cultural impact.

Stahelski has gone further, sharing what makes the films appear and how different this process is from the way studies generally operate.

“If I saw our process, you would be like,” are you telling me this franchise of billions of dollars, does it like this? “I am exploring my next film in London and yesterday we saw a nice position that totally changed the second act.

“We have rewritten everything. I find great members of the cast and constantly rewrite their parts. This is what he does [the movies] So good and organic – we are constantly updating. But he likes to know what they are getting for their dollar and wants to block a script for budget reasons. While we are saying: “Just write the check, see you at the finish line”.

It is that looseness, that constant remodeling on the fly, which it gives John Wick It is soon impulse, and it is a process that clearly did not lead to television adaptation.

Looking to the future, the next spin-off will follow Donnie Yen ‘The character of S, Caine and Stahelski seem much safer than that.

“The Donny Yen Spinoff Doesn’T Have The John Wick Character. It’s Got Donny Yen and It’s An Ode To Kung Fu Movies. IF John Wick 1 was about Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin, This is about Chow Yun-Fat, John Woo and Wong Kar-Wai. One is a little Easier to get it across to audiences because it’s in a sub-genre of what we love. “

As for John Wick himself? After chapter 4, it seems that the character has officially extended … for now. But Stahelski does not exclude a return.

“The study would do it a lot, I’m sure, at some point. Listen, they were fantastic and they asked us to really try and we really have a good couple of ideas and we will try.”

I’m sure we will see Wick in action at some point. I will be very surprised if we don’t do it. I don’t just want to see talent, time and money wasted in another series of spin-off in half.