John Wick 4 Director Talks Directing Donnie Yen vs Keanu Reaves

John Wick 4 Director came out at Collider’s Directors on Directing panel at Comic-Con, featuring brand-new footage of Keanu Reeves battling various bad men while attempting to topple the High Table. Reeves engaged in combat with Donnie Yen, another action actor with a wealth of expertise, in one of the many fight scenes. The two engage in combat while armed with pistols and swords in a moment that action fans have been waiting years to see. When producer Chad Stahelski and director J. J. Perry got down to talk about Perry’s directorial debut Day Shift, which Stahelski also directed, the conversation naturally led to the most recent action movie and the epic battle between Reeves and Yen. Besides, we all know John Wick 5 is on its way because we can never get enough of Keanu.

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John Wick 4 Director valued Donnie Yen’s years of experience

In John Wick 4, Having Yen was advantageous because of his years of experience. He would give Stahelski advice and, in the director’s opinion, was extraordinarily quick to understand what was required of him. Despite being 59 years old, John Wick 4 Director remarked that Yen was “still fast as fuck,” which gave the eagerly anticipated session with Reeves plenty of excitement. He said that working with the two of them was an odd experience “So, I’m standing in between. You’ve got Donnie Yen and you got Keanu Reeves, and you’re touching hands with all of them, blocking out stuff. And you’re like, ‘Holy shit. Those are really real.” Stahelski was faced with the dilemma of whether to arrange a battle that fans have been clamoring for and whether to wind up the John Wick series. He asked himself, “How am I going to make this fucking movie?”

John Wick 4 Director concluded by promising that the combat scene between Reeves and Yen would be distinctive. Despite the fact that the director was well-versed in some of Yen’s characteristic moves, he nevertheless wanted the fight to suit the John Wick universe and the over-the-top action of it all while depending on the acting skills of the two stars:

So, it always comes down to, I can do the Donnie Yen triple kick. I can do all this, but you also want to do something different. So, you start sitting, you come at it from character, and you have a lot of discussions with the guys going, ‘Okay, Donnie is amazing at this. Keanu is amazing at this. They’re both great actors, so let’s lean onto that, and let’s do something we haven’t seen before.’ So now, that Donnie Yen with a sword and a pistol and Keanu with a samurai sword and a couple of pistols and throwing an AR-15 and a glass mirror room with Japanese artifacts. And yeah, throw in a couple of dogs, and let’s see what happens.

The John Wick series started in 2014 and has become massively popular

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The John Wick series started with John Wick. Chad Stahelski wrote and directed the 2014 American neo-noir action thriller movie. It stars Keanu Reeves as the titular character. Alongside him, there are also Willem Dafoe, Dean Winters, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, and Ian McShane.

John Wick 4, which is distributed by Lionsgate, is scheduled for a March 24 theatrical debut in the United States. The movie’s original May 21, 2021, release date was postponed because of the COVID-19 epidemic and partially because of Reeves’ obligations with The Matrix Resurrections.

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