John Wick 4

"John Wick: Chapter 4" runs 169 minutes, and director Chad Stahelski and editor Nathan Orloff explain why every minute was necessary.

The last thing you want to do is treat it as a bunch of parts.” Once again, Stahelski — who’s as influenced by directors of musicals like Bob Fosse and Stanley Donen as he is by Sergio Leone — finds the analogy he’s looking for in music: “It’s not a piece of the song, it’s the whole song that makes you rock out.” Sometimes Stahelski and Orloff found that cutting a scene too short made the movie feel longer because it wasn’t the correct rhythm, which led to many, many viewings of the entire film to figure out the right balance. If the stripped-down original was Stahelski’s “A Fistful of Dollars” and the second and third installments expanded the “John Wick” universe in a manner comparable to “For a Few Dollars More,” “ [John Wick: Chapter 4](https://www.indiewire.com/t/john-wick-chapter-4/)” is Stahelski’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” the movie that takes “John Wick” into the realm of the epic. “You’ll never know if a five-minute car scene or a 10-minute car scene is good until you watch the whole movie,” Stahelski said. “You just compress, compress, compress,” Orloff said. Orloff noted that there was a lot of experimentation in the movie’s first half to figure out how much time to spend on the supporting characters while always bringing the story back to John Wick.

After almost 20 years of starring in old school-style action movies, Scott Adkins steps up to 'John Wick' looking unlike himself.

It was important that we sell the weight of the costume with the way the way I moved and the way I fought. Action is in a great place at the moment. Years later, how do you feel about the state of action movies and the actors who lead them? There’s a lengthy 10 minutes of dialogue between you, Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, and Shamier Anderson before the fighting starts. He loves the sound of his own voice and is a bit pompous. It was important to me and Chad that we sell the weight of the suit. We just adapted my style to fit the character’s. In John Wick: Chapter 4, Adkins throws down against Keanu Reeves in the role of “Killa,” an egomaniacal German assassin with a rotund frame and a penchant for poker. In an interview with Inverse, Scott Adkins reveals how he adapted his kickboxing fighting style to suit Killa’s killer instincts, the challenges of getting into makeup every day, and what the future of action movies might look like. He’s the head of the German table. “The prosthetic side is a big thing. If he were born a decade earlier, Adkins would have been contemporaries with Jean Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, and Sylvester Stallone, to name a few.

John Wick: Chapter 4 is projected to be the biggest movie of the action franchise, but don't expect it to hit streaming services anytime soon.

By this time, John Wick: Chapter 4 will be available alongside the entire John Wick franchise for streaming on the platform. Peacock and Lionsgate's deal confirmed that releases like John Wick: Chapter 4 would start streaming on the service in 2024, so the latest movie will most likely be on Peacock in fall 2024. [John Wick: Chapter 4](https://screenrant.com/tag/john-wick-4/) is set to be the biggest movie of the franchise, but when will it be available to stream? Still, given the high projections for John Wick: Chapter 4’s theatrical success, Lionsgate may extend the movie's streaming release date to even later. As a Lionsgate movie, John Wick: Chapter 4 will first begin streaming on Starz. [John Wick: Chapter 4’s positive reviews](https://screenrant.com/john-wick-4-reviews-good-reasons/) being the best of the franchise.

'John Wick: Chapter 4' on Track To Hit Franchise Record $115 Million USD Global Box Office Opening: The film is also currently the best-reviewed John Wick ...

Hit the theaters this weekend to see the fourth sequel of the Reeves-led franchise. [Keanu Reeves](https://hypebeast.com/tags/keanu-reeves)‘s [John Wick: Chapter 4](https://hypebeast.com/tags/john-wick-chapter-4) is looking to top box offices for opening weekend. This movie is slated to hit 3,800 theaters, 1,675 of them in IMax.

Here's everything we know about Killa, the killer played by action star Scott Adkins in John Wick: Chapter 4.

Adkins is also all muscle however, meaning he looks nothing like the Killa on the page. Killa is brother of Queen of the Romas Katia (Natalia Tena), has gold front teeth, laughs a lot, and is huge. Scott Adkins is one of the most successful and in-demand action stars working today. Here we’re taking a look at another addition to the John Wick ensemble – Scott Adkins’ Killa. Whatever the fateful outcome, John Wick knows that he left a good life behind a long time ago. But now, win or lose, Wick has a way out: challenge the Marquis to single combat.

"John Wick: Chapter 4" is aiming to set a new franchise record at the box office.

Except for “Shazam: Fury of the Gods,” it’s been a standout March at the box office, with new entries of “Scream” and “Creed” also establishing opening weekend benchmarks in their respective series. “John Wick 4” is the only new nationwide release, so it’ll have no problem overtaking “Shazam 2” as the No. As long as momentum sustains, “Chapter 4” hopes to become the biggest earner of the four by the time it leaves theaters. It cost more than $100 million to produce, giving it the highest price tag in the series. “Chapter 4,” earning some of the best reviews of the already well-received pack, should continue the trend. [Keanu Reeves](https://variety.com/t/keanu-reeves/) as a legendary assassin, looks to collect a mighty $65 million to $70 million from 3,800 North American theaters over the weekend.

Cinematographer Dan Luastsen has become one of the key figures in the Wick universe, and he says "Chapter 4" is the biggest & most beautiful.

He goes from the darkness into the sunrise in the desert at the beginning of the movie and then into the sunshine at the end of the movie. In capturing the action, a Spidercam was deployed, and lighting was mapped out to shoot 360 degrees. Laustsen says action scenes were “played as wide as they could” with dolly, crane, and Steadicam framing the bulk of the imagery while handheld was used sparingly. For director Chad Stahelski’s John Wick: Chapter 4, Laustsen says that the creative team’s eyes were on making the latest installment “bigger, crazier, and more beautiful.” “We wanted to make more powerful images of the characters, especially Keanu,” Laustsen says. Japan puts the Osaka Continental Hotel center stage – the assassin safe haven akin to the Moroccan Continental in Chapter 3 and New York Continental from the first two films. Thematically tying John Wick’s character arc to the simmering story is light from the sun, which starts and ends the movie. Greens and ambers subliminally connected each location in the story. In one scene, Wick is chasing down enemies on horseback, his black suit creating a surrealist contrast in the saturated desert environment. When you have a leading actor who says let’s go for it, it’s such a help.” Those efforts have carried over to the John Wick franchise, which Laustsen began lensing back in Chapter 2, with an atmospheric vigor that punctuates the onslaught of action through an ethereal and deliberate touch. Color palettes found ground through collaborative efforts with production designer Kevin Kavanaugh (The Dark Knight Rises, Nightcrawler), who also has been on the series since Chapter 2. [Dan Laustsen](https://www.motionpictures.org/2018/02/cinematographer-dan-laustsen-shape-waters-fluid-fable-2-2/) has a way with color.

Hiroyuki Sanada & Shamier Anderson discuss joining John Wick: Chapter 4, the fight scene with Donnie Yen, taking over the dog handler role, & more.

ANDERSON: Not just because I have a dog in this version, but the John Wick 3 with Halle Berry, that dog sequence? So can you both talk a little bit about the dog being a huge part of the franchise, and you get it this time, and getting to fight Donnie? Do I get a spinoff?” You know, “Something?” But it's really great, and the Donnie Yen of it, I’ll let Hiro speak on that, but I got to watch those guys fight, which is legendary. And the experience is one thing, working with a Belgian Malinois, and how incredibly skilled they are and learning that process, and then the other side of it, the responsibility of having a dog in this film and what that holds and what that means to everybody. What does it mean to both of you to be part of a franchise like this that is so beloved to so many people around the world? So that's the biggest thing, but I’m so happy to be a part of the series.

John Wick: Chapter 4 is on track to have the biggest box office opening weekend of the franchise, marking a new record for the film series.

This has likely helped his popularity as John Wick skyrocket, making for another strong case why John Wick: Chapter 4 will be the series' biggest film ever. With trailers already teasing a big fight scene between John and Caine, as well as Caine racking up his own body count throughout the film, John Wick: Chapter 4 is promising the largest amount of action the series has ever seen. The highly-anticipated film will see John Wick return to the big screen for the first time since 2019's John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum.

According to an interview by IndieWire with director Chad Stahelski and editor Nathan Orloff, the first cut clocked in at three hours and forty-five minutes, ...

You feel that bump in movies all the time because they were doing it in pieces and not seeing it as a whole. The “four-hour first cut” and the “six-hour assembly cut” are just the beginning of a process, which means that things will hopefully get honed by the time it arrives in theaters. Superman: Dawn Of Justice](https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/04/15/the-original-cut-of-batman-v-superman-was-four-hours-long), [Blade Runner 2049](https://www.avclub.com/blade-runner-2049-was-originally-4-hours-long-1820019200), and [Elvis](https://news.yahoo.com/elvis-director-baz-luhrmann-reveals-085901958.html). For John Wick 4, Stahleski says that every time they cut 30 seconds, he’d “make everybody watch the movie again.” [John Wick: Chapter 4](https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/john-wick-chapter-4-2023), which means it’s time to check in with how long that original, never-to-be-seen cut was. As did [Thor: Love And Thunder](https://www.avclub.com/taika-waititi-no-thor-love-and-thunder-directors-cut-1849163761), [Batman V.