Keanu Reeves Gifted ‘John Wick 4’ Stunt Crew T-Shirts That Listed the Number of Times They Died in the Movie
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Keanu Reeves lovingly wanted all of the “John Wick: Chapter 4” stuntmen to remember just how many times they died during the making of the blockbuster action movie.
A new report from The New York Times about the making of the sequel’s unforgettable action scenes includes a detail about Reeves gifting the film’s stunt crew with t-shirts that had the number of deaths each stunt person faced in the movie.
For some of the stunt crew, that number was above 20. Why so many death scenes per one stunt person? It’s because “John Wick: Chapter 4” re-used stunt workers in multiple scenes.
For the instant classic staircase fight, in which Reeves’ John Wick fights bad guys as he races up the 222 steps leading to the Sacré-Coeur Basilica (only to be pushed back down to the bottom and have to do it all over again), the production used 35 stunt workers, many of whom had repeated deaths in the scene. “It’s like, of course that’s what you want,” fight coordinator Jeremy Marinas told The Times about the moment director Chad Stahelski told him about the staircase scene. “You want 100 guys falling down the stairs and you want me to make every reaction and fall different.
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