We spoke w/ 'John Wick: Chapter 4' writer Shay Hatten about writing fight scenes and working on 'Ballerina.'
John Wick: Chapter 4 is officially in theaters, and we spoke with co-writer Shay Hatten about the fourth movie in the Wick franchise. Starring Keanu Reeves, John Wick: Chapter 4 follows the titular character in his war against the High Table, a high-ranking group within an organization of assassins who Wick wronged in the previous films.
SHAY HATTEN: Perfect. That's the best way to see it, is just every punch vibrates the theater, so that's the ideal experience. And then sometimes, again, it's like Chad calls me into his office, and he's like, "Sit down. This is how we're doing it. John grabs knives off the walls and throws them like baseballs." And he just has it completely in his mind, and it's already fully formed. So it's a lot of different things. I think it ultimately is a collaborative experience between Chad and his stunt team, what Keanu wants to do.
HATTEN: Well, I think that's what's so thrilling as a writer about working on these movies is it really is a unique thing where it is a giant, big-budget, action franchise that's not built on preexisting IP, except for the IP of the previous movies. The first movie, they never intended to make a sequel. And then it blew up, so they made a second movie.
So yeah, it really is just continuing to ask those questions and also to kind of explore different roles within this world. With Shamier's character, it really was like, what does it look like to be in this world if you're not one of the on-the-ground hired gun assassins? He's just a tracker who's not kind of as, I guess, not as inherently violent as other characters. He's more just like, "My skill is I locate people from this world.
I'm so curious about the expansion of this world. Because I know Ballerina takes place in between three and four, right?How much of Keanu is in this movie, and how much of John Wick's character is involved in it? HATTEN: I don't think I'm allowed to speak to it. I think Zack will find me if I talk about it, so I don't think I'm allowed to say anything.
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