Keanu Reeves has explained the emotional ending of John Wick: Chapter 4 alongside director Chad Stahelski.*Spoilers below*The conclusion to the fourth outing of the action series proved to be a shock for fans.
Despite the film’s titular character winning his climactic duel against Marquis Vincent de Gramont (Bill Skarsgard), he sustains a seemingly fatal gunshot wound.
After uttering the name of his late wife, Helen, (who died in the opening of the first John Wick film), he appears to die. The final scene shows Winston (Ian McShane) standing at Wick’s grave.At the film’s premiere at the South By Southwest Film & TV Festival, a fan asked Reeves and Stahelski about the ending.“We had the opportunity [to do another film] because of the audience [response to] Chapter Three, and we were like, ‘What was the ‘why?’” Reeves said. “And when Chad and I was talking, the ‘why’ was death — and it was John Wick’s death.
For him to get his peace, or freedom, in a way…that was the reason to make the movie. It can’t just be, ‘Let’s do another one.’ It was really about death, or a way of dying.
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