John Wick Was Actually Gonna Be 75 Years Old

The John Wick series, the third movie of which we went to preview, is a series that put itself in high places in the action category with golden letters. The reason John Wick is so popular isn’t because the movie has a great story, cinematography or anything else, it’s Keanu Reeves who brought John Wick to life.

In fact, according to a recent information, the John Wick series that we watched and loved on the screens came to its final form thanks to Keanu Reeves. He took the script and recreated it himself.. Let’s take a look at the details.

John Wick was actually going to be 75 years old

The producer of the series, Basil Iwanyk, has just released the ‘They Shouldn’t Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action’ In his book, he states that the character of John Wick was fictionalized as a 75-year-old man in the original script.

Iwanyk describes the situation in a sentence in his book: “One of my closest friends, Charlie Ferrraro, sent me this script. The main character was a 75-year-old man and had been retired for 25 years. I liked the idea of ​​a story where a Clint Eastwood-esque character is smashing in a modern world, and I said, ‘We can do this with Clint Eastwood or Harrison Ford.'”

Iwanyk continues: “Another one of my closest friends, manager Jimmy Darmody, was Keanu Reeves’ manager at the time and said, ‘Do you have an action movie for Keanu Reeves?’ she asked. And I said to myself, ‘Keanu was one of the best action actors of the last 25 years, what happened to him? What is he doing?’ I asked. At that time he was shooting his own movie ‘Man of Tai Chi’. We gave the script to Keanu and said, ‘Of course you’re not 75 years old, there’s such a problem’.”

Later, Keanu and Iwanyk met on a common ground, saw the potential of the project and started working on it. Keanu, Iwanyk said, had an emotional attachment to the character of John Wick and wanted to spin this 75-year-old man’s story around himself and “I want to do this, I will play John Wick as 35” said.

That’s why Keanu Reeves plays similar characters in every movie he plays, which is why he always adds himself. Later, in collaboration with producers, writers and Keanu Reeves. The John Wick we now know has appeared. So we have to thank Keanu for this amazing series.