New Details Emerge About 'John Wick 3'
Marking the digital HD release of John Wick: Chapter 2 (4K, Blu ray, and DVD on 6/13) Collider's Tammy Cook spoke with series Director Chad Stahelski and confirmed new details about 'John Wick 3.'
When asked about the status of the sequel, Stahelski responded:
“Yeah — we’re currently in the middle of writing it right now,” Stahelski said of the film’s status, and it seems like the film pretty much has a greenlight; it’s just waiting on the filmmakers to get everything into place. When asked when they might start filming, Stahelski replied, “It’s more of a how fast can we get our shit together. But I would assume that if not by the end of this year, the beginning of next year.”
Stahelski also confirmed 'John Wick 3' will focus on expanding the franchise's mythology:
“We want, not so much to go bigger on the third one, but to show you more of the intricacies of the world… I feel like there are all these different subtleties that I skipped over in Number Two, that I’d like to go back to on [chapter three] and show you the inner workings of different parts of New York. So rather than massive set pieces, I’d like to show you cooler and more intricate ones… I think it would be a mistake budget wise and creatively to just go big and blow up a freeway. That’s not our gig. That’s a comic book or a Bond gig. We want to show you cool and intricate details. What are those little details in everyday life? Hopefully – we make people look at garbage collectors and cleaner vans and homeless people a little differently now.”
After reading the entire interview, it's not difficult to buy into Stahelski's 'Wick 3' vision, even if he's not behind the director's chair. Thankfully, audiences reacted positively to John Wick: Chapter 2 by nearly doubling John Wick's (2014) original domestic and worldwide gross. Numbers aside, we can only hope Lionsgate greenlight's 'John Wick 3' so we can see Stahelski's vision come to life.
For more details about 'John Wick 3' character arcs and backstory, check out Collider's complete interview with Chad Stahelski.
