Derek Kolstad, the creator and writer of the first two “John Wick” movies, is not involved in the upcoming fourth and fifth instalments of the franchise. “At a certain stage the studio will tell you, your creation is graduated, and you wish it well,” Kolstad, who shared writing credit on “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,” tells Collider. “I’m still close with [director Chad Stahelski], still close with [first film co-director David Leitch], and I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I’m excited to see.” Kolstad revealed it was not his decision to exit the franchise: “When you think contractually of these things, the third one I shared the credit with any number of people, [the studio] didn’t have to come back to me, and so they didn’t.”
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