Keanu Reeves has played the iconic action hero John Wick for nearly a decade, but the role was originally intended to be written for a larger actor like Clint Eastwood or Harrison Ford.
One of the John Wick producers, Basil Iwanyk, revealed in the new book, They Shouldn’t Have Killed Your Dog: The Uncensored Complete Oral Story of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Actionof Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman, that the legendary killer was to be played by a 75-year-old man, Fox News reports.
Iwanyk said in the book that one of his best friends sent him a screenplay by Derek Kolstad, the creator of the John Wick franchise – seconds Weekly entertainment.
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“The leader was a 75-year-old man, 25 years after he retired. It was fun to watch Clint Eastwood hit a kick **. I thought, “Okay, there are probably one or two names I could do this with: Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford,” Iwanyk commented.
Kolstad noted that it was Reeves “who put his claws on [the script] and made it his own. ”
From The matrix The actor showed great interest in the script, renewed the character to play it.
“I spent two months at Keanu’s house on the weekends working on the script,” Kolstad said in the book, which was published Tuesday.
“He reads [the script] on a Friday, in 90 minutes, and he said, ‘I want to do it,’ “he recalled.
“The first thing Keanu told me was, ‘Okay, Derek, I’ll play you 35.'”
Reeves will return as the famous John Wick John Wick: Chapter 4will be released on March 23, 2023.
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