Keanu Reeves lovingly wished the entire “John Wick: Chapter 4” stuntmen to recollect simply what number of instances they died in the course of the making of the blockbuster motion film. A brand new report from The New York Occasions in regards to the making of the sequel’s unforgettable motion scenes features a element about Reeves gifting the movie’s stunt crew with t-shirts that had the variety of deaths every stunt individual confronted within the film. For among the stunt crew, that quantity was above 20.
Why so many loss of life scenes per one stunt individual? It’s as a result of “John Wick: Chapter 4” re-used stunt employees in a number of scenes. For the immediate basic staircase battle, wherein Reeves’ John Wick fights dangerous guys as he races up the 222 steps resulting in the Sacré-Coeur Basilica (solely to be pushed again right down to the underside and should do it another time), the manufacturing used 35 stunt employees, a lot of whom had repeated deaths within the scene.
“It’s like, after all that’s what you need,” battle coordinator Jeremy Marinas advised The Occasions in regards to the second director Chad Stahelski advised him in regards to the staircase scene. “You need 100 guys falling down the steps and also you need me to make each response and fall totally different. After all you do. It was like we have been simply one other day at work.”
“Everyone knows how onerous it’s simply to stroll up stairs once we don’t need to,” Marinas added, “Simply to consider how nicely Keanu — not John Wick — Keanu was capable of do taking pictures upwards whereas stepping. It’s onerous sufficient to be a marksman on flat floor.”
Per The New York Occasions, filming the staircase battle took seven evening shoots. Every stunt man was most likely “killed” 4 or 5 instances every, and “on the finish of the shoot Reeves made T-shirts for the stunt performers emblazoned with the variety of instances they have been slain over the course of the complete film.”
Stahelski added that Reeves carried out each stunt because it pertained to John Wick ascending the staircase. As for the 44-second fall down the steps, that was the place stunt double Vincent Bouillon got here in useful.
“That look John Wick provides when he seems at his watch and truly seems up the staircase, I feel that’s perhaps 50 % John Wick and 50 % Keanu Reeves going, ‘Ugh, Stahelski did it to me once more,’” Stahelski mentioned of filming the scene. “You bought to undergo. That’s what’s enjoyable about John Wick. He suffers and he retains going.”
The T-shirts are usually not the one present Reeves bestowed to his “John Wick: Chapter 4” stunt staff. Individuals journal reported in 2021 that Reeves marked the top of manufacturing on the movie by gifting the his four-man stunt staff personalised Rolex Submariner watches as a thanks for his or her onerous work on the upcoming motion tentpole. Reeves’ stunt staff on the movie was made up of Bruce Concepcion, Jeremy Marinas, Dave Camarillo and Li Qiang.
Per Individuals journal: “The within of every watch was engraved with private messages to every particular person from the actor. Marinas shared a take a look at the watches in his Instagram Tales, calling it the ‘greatest wrap present ever’ and revealing his watch learn ‘The John Wick 5’ together with the message, ‘Jeremy Thanks Keanu JW4 2021.’”
“John Wick: Chapter 4” is now taking part in in theaters nationwide.