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Career slump; script; budget; stunts; training; cars; director credit; injuries; kill count
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- The discussion describes Reeves’s pre-Wick slump through several unsuccessful or obscure projects and treats the comeback as unusually unlikely.
- Alfie Allen is reported to have filmed his car scenes in one fifteen-hour day.
- Derek Kolstad initially imagined an older Eastwood- or Newman-like protagonist, drawing on revenge films, The Killer and westerns.
- The production struggled for money and distribution before festival buzz and Lionsgate’s release; a $25 million budget and $85 million gross are cited.
- The balcony drop is praised as a practical stunt; Reeves reportedly wanted to do it but could not be insured.
- Reeves reportedly performed the nightclub sequence with a high fever, prompting a flu-game comparison.
- Reeves reportedly trained for four months in martial arts, tactical shooting and stunt driving.
- Palicki reportedly trained for months and spent two weeks learning her fight.
- Alfie Allen reportedly visited Russian bathhouses to research his role.
- The Red Circle nightclub is identified as a reference to Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge.
- Substitute cars were reportedly used because destroying several actual rare Mustangs exceeded the budget.
- The final fight took five cold nights at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with artificial rain stopped over concern about Reeves’s exposure.
- Stahelski and Leitch reportedly directed together but could not receive joint guild credit, leaving one credited as director and the other as producer.
- Nyqvist reportedly needed eighty stitches after a head injury and nearly lost an ear.
- The total John Wick kill count is84, after guesses of67 and112.