Keanu Reeves affectionately needed all of the "John Wick: Part 4" doubles to recall exactly how frequently they passed on during the creation of the blockbuster activity film. Another report from The New York Times about the creation of the spin-off's remarkable activity scenes incorporates an insight regarding Reeves giving the film's trick group with shirts that had the quantity of passings each double looked in the film. For a portion of the trick group, that number was over 20.
Why so many demise scenes per one stand-in? This is on the grounds that "John Wick: Section 4" re-involved stunt laborers in numerous scenes. For the moment exemplary flight of stairs battle, in which Reeves' John Wick battles trouble makers as he races up the 222 stages prompting the Sacré-Coeur Basilica (just to be pushed down to the base and need to do everything over once more), the creation utilized 35 trick laborers, a considerable lot of whom had rehashed passings in the scene.
"It's like, obviously that is what you need," battle facilitator Jeremy Marinas informed The Times regarding the second chief Chad Stahelski enlightened him concerning the flight of stairs scene. "You need 100 people tumbling down the steps and you believe that I should make each response and fall unique. Obviously you do. It was like we were simply one more day at work."
"We as a whole skill hard it is simply to stroll up steps when we would rather not," Marinas added, "Just to contemplate how well Keanu — not John Wick — Keanu had the option to do shooting upwards while venturing. Being a marksman on level ground is sufficiently hard."
Per The New York Times, recording the flight of stairs battle required seven night shoots. Each double was presumably "killed" four or multiple times each, and "toward the finish of the shoot Reeves made Shirts for the trick entertainers decorated with the times they were killed throughout the whole film."
Stahelski added that Reeves played out each trick as it related to John Wick climbing the flight of stairs. With respect to the 44-second tumble down the steps, that was where trick twofold Vincent Bouillon proved to be useful.
"That look John Wick gives when he checks the time and really looks into the flight of stairs, I believe that is perhaps 50% John Wick and 50 percent Keanu Reeves going, 'Ugh, Stahelski rehashed it to me,'" Stahelski said of recording the scene. "You got to endure. That is why is John Wick fun. He endures and he continues onward."
The Shirts are not by any means the only gift Reeves gave to his "John Wick: Part 4" stunt group. Individuals magazine detailed in 2021 that Reeves denoted the finish of creation on the film by giving the his four-man stunt group customized Rolex Submariner looks as a thank you for their persistent effort on the impending activity tentpole. Reeves' trick group on the film was comprised of Bruce Concepcion, Jeremy Marinas, Dave Camarillo and Li Qiang.
Per Individuals magazine: "within each watch was engraved with individual messages to every person from the entertainer. Marinas shared a glance at the watches in his Instagram Stories, calling it the 'best wrap gift ever' and uncovering his watch read 'The John Wick Five' alongside the message, 'Jeremy Thank you Keanu JW4 2021.'"
"John Wick:
Part 4" is currently playing in auditoriums cross country.