John Wick 4, One of the original John Wick’s film directors has disclosed that the real screenplay had only three deaths. Whereas the final screenplay featured around 80 deaths.
One thing that is certain to happen or to be featured in John Wick’s movie is BLOOD. All his action films including the forthcoming one are famous for being bloody and consisting all kinds of unjustified violence from the beginning to end.
However, Chad Stahelski, one of the directors of first Wick along with David Leitch has now revealed that the original script didn’t showcase as many casualties as one had thought of. According to Chad, only he is responsible and accountable for bloodshed and fighting that was to happen.
During in an Interview Chad Stahelski spoke regarding the Wick’s original script:
“I think he [Keanu Reeves] sent it to me on a Friday and I read it maybe that day and thought about it over the weekend.
“It was much more contained. I think only three people died in the original script, two were in a car crash. It was very, very minimal, and it was slightly different.
“I read it, and I’d always had this idea about Greek mythology and how to tell more a fable-istic kind of story, make a surreal action movie so it wasn’t so grounded and grey, just something different.”
Also, if you look back on the number of dead bodies that were there in the first film, you will probably count more than 80 bodies. And in the second film- John Wick: Chapter 2 and the number of dead bodies were more than 128.
Will there be an increase in the number of deaths in John Wick 4?
Later in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, the number of deaths were reduced to just 94.
Its hard to predict the number of deaths that will happen in the next chapter. Also, Stahelski revealed that they have not planned the number of killings and they are not even thinking of increasing the numbers.
He continued: “People joke about it [the kill count], but the way I choreograph with my guys and stuff, we just choreograph motion and set pieces and we try to get this balletic kind of dance, live performance feel to everything.
“It’s just when you shoot people in the head, they can’t get back up so you can reuse a stunt guy. Every time Keanu moves, he does two half circles. He’s killed five guys. So, I got to keep using more and more stunt guys.
“I think, just by nature, because Keanu’s gotten so much better with the choreography and the martial arts and the motion and we change weapons so much and we get bigger set pieces, that, just by its very nature, because the scene grows, the body count grows.
“But we don’t start off going, ‘Okay, what was in number three? How do we beat it for number four?’ We just choreograph and it happens.”
