‘John Wick’ Franchise Director Chad Stahelski Interview

Jack Giroux at /Film has an interesting interview with John Wick 3 director, Chad Stahelski.  It’s worth a read and here are a couple of tidbits to whet your appetite before you click over…

They call it the curse of the sequel. They love the first movie because it’s original, but by its very nature, the sequel can’t be original in the same way as the first one is because it’s a sequel [Laughs]. So how do you become original, how do you keep the audience invested in what they love and at the same time, show them something new? They want to see it again, but they don’t want you to repeat exactly.

Same with backstory. Halle [Berry] can look at John with the anger, the love, and the look and stoicism and still agree to help, and that should tell you there’s something there. I don’t need her to say, “I love you. We were together for five years.” If you’ve gotta say that, you got the wrong cast or you’ve gotta drop the writers.

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