Despite John's stoic demeanor, he bonds with the puppy and they spend the day driving around in his vintage 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1. A sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2, was released in 2017, and was met with comparable critical and commercial success.Īfter losing his wife Helen to a terminal illness, John Wick receives a beagle puppy named Daisy that Helen had arranged to send before she died, to help him cope with his grief. It grossed $86 million worldwide against a production budget of $20–30 million. The film received highly positive reviews with praise directed at its action sequences, visual style and Reeves's performances and went on to be regarded as one of the best action films in 2014. The film also pays homage to works such as John Woo's The Killer, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samouraï, John Boorman's Point Blank, and Spaghetti Western films.
The film used fight choreographers and gun fu techniques from Hong Kong action cinema. Stahelski and Leitch's approach to fight scenes drew upon their admiration for anime and martial arts films. They previously worked with Reeves as stunt doubles on The Matrix trilogy. It marks Stahelski and Leitch's directorial debut as a team after multiple separate credits as second-unit directors and stunt coordinators. The film was produced by Basil Iwanyk of Thunder Road Pictures, Leitch, Eva Longoria, and Michael Witherill. Kolstad had completed the screenplay in 2012 and further developed it for Thunder Road Pictures.
Ĭhad Stahelski and David Leitch directed the film together, though only Stahelski was credited. The story follows former assassin John Wick and his attempt to hunt down the men who broke into his home, stole his vintage car and killed his puppy, which was a last gift to him from his recently deceased wife. It is the first installment in the John Wick franchise.
It stars Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Winters, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe. John Wick is a 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Chad Stahelski (in his directorial debut) from a screenplay by Derek Kolstad.
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