Keanu Reeves - John Wick 2 - Film
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Keanu Reeves Returns In
John
Wick Chapter 2
In 2014,
John Wick exploded on the scene as a retired super hit man who went on a
killing rampage after criminals killed his dog. The movie was a world-wide box
office Smash hit and the character played by Keanu Reeves became a major
superstar. With these kinds of makings on their hands, what else is a movie
studio to do but make a sequel? Thus, we have “John Wick Chapter 2.”
In the
second instalment, Mr. Wick, who is trying to maintain a low key, unsuspecting
retirement, receives a visit from an Italian gangster messenger sent by Winston
(played by Ian McShane), who is the kingpin of a secret assassin society “The
Continental.”
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| Winston (Ian Mc Shane) Mob Boss |
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| John Wick (Keanu Reeves) loads his piece for action |
Unfortunately, Wick has a sworn blood oath to The Continental and
must return to Italy for work. His assignment is to take out Winston’s own
sister Gianna (Claudia Gerini) the ruthless capo who he intends to replace as
the top commander of the Italian Camorra crime syndicate.
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| Cassian (Common) No joke killer |
Wick
must overcome his chief nemeses i.e., Gianna’s personal bodyguard, trained
killer Cassian (Common) and Ares (Ruby Rose) also no joke as a killer. In
between those two, Wick kills at least 50 or more nobody’s who are either
chasing him for the mob or in his way. Wick returns to New York with a worldwide
bounty on his head so he seeks the help of the mysterious Bowery King (Laurence
Fishburne).
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| Fishburne and Reeves on red carpet for the premiere |
This
film marks an on-screen reunion of Fishburne and Reeves from “The Matrix”
franchise. Fishburne credits Reeves with putting in a good word for him to
director Chad Staheiski for his role. Staheiski adds that he and the producers
had Fishburne in mind for the part even with the writing of the script. There
were some daring stunts in this film. Sometimes studios won’t OK stunts that
they feel are too risky or dangerous. How did the producers and director
navigate this situation? Producer Basil Iwanyk joked and said, “It’s what we tell
the studio we’re doing and what we actually do. If the studio knew some of the
things that Chad made the actors do, maybe we would not have had approval but
we did it anyway. The cast was very well trained.”
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| Producer, director and cast at press conference |
What are
some of the things that immediately come to mind when the studio orders a
sequel? Director Staheiski responds saying, “When we were asked to do a sequel,
we were very flattered and hopeful. It’s always a challenge to do something
original and build on something you’ve already built. I think when Keanu,
myself, Basil and Derek all got together we said if we’re going to do a sequel,
how do we do this? I think what everyone felt as with the first one, all of the
building we had done, the kind of underworld assins, The Continental mythology and
the world we had built. So, we really wanted to expand on that and show a
little bit more insight into that world and what John Wick did in that world
and all of the colorful characters we could put into that world. I think that’s
where we started from.”
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