Name: Director Chad Stahelski on Creating the John Wick Universe
Uploaded: 2023-06-07T17:25:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Director Chad Stahelski on Creating the John Wick Universe' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Director Chad Stahelski on Creating the John Wick Universe' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-07. Transcript available.

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But it is kind of like a secret world deal like you have to punch the code in
to get into the door or you have a key fob
You know that's kind of like subcultures have always interested me. There's
always sub Rosa, right?
Yeah, the sub Rosa world of the inside whether it's comedians or stunt guys or
cops or military
There's always that in that in click and I think that's what fascinates a lot
of people a lot of times because they don't want to be part of that
Little we're originally gonna name um, I some people give me shit cuz we called
number three Parabellum and then number four was like just done with four
Yeah, we actually had a title for John Wick four. It was called Haga curry
Japanese word that really meant like hidden leaves. It was a treatise on
samurai code of ethics and
It really spoke to it was kind of like the art of the way of dying
Like how do you prepare yourself for a good death and a lot of it dealt with
you can only relate to people
A warrior can only relate to a warrior, you know, whether you're on other sides
or not a cop can only relate to a cop and like
You know, whatever a teacher can already to teach that inside sub Rosa thing
that only each other knew each other
Mm-hmm kind of thing. We got it, but we didn't want to put it, you know a title
on it
We kind of lost it
But I thought it was a really cool thing about being sub Rosa being in the
inside
Yeah
Yeah, maybe on the next one. Why'd you decide just it was like, you know, it
was
The the actual treatise it was from like 1646 or something like that
Unfortunately, it had been used
During World War two as a rallying cry
For a militaristic Japan to get behind so in in some Asian markets it
Could be considered to be a problem and we didn't want to take a chance
I it was cut. Yeah, Korea and Japan Korea. I'm like, okay. I get it
We don't we want to be sensitive to that, but we still thought it was a cool
name. Yeah
It's a weird world it is to make films and then have them be distributed
worldwide
It's because you know, it's like I'm sure you know you're always gonna piss off
somebody
Yeah, you're always gonna get something or somebody can be something see just
again
I like doing the fantasy film kind of thing. I like creating our own worlds
I like doing that because it's ours and it's not taking a side. It's not really
I
Don't have to adhere to history and have to adhere to an IP and kind of just do
our thing and I think that kind of freedom helps a lot
You know, I don't think people get
I know it's bent out of shape sometimes on that because you're creating your
own world. Do you feel like?
There's enough there's room for another thing like this in your life like is
this something you're gonna try to do again like recreate an entire
ecosystem an entire world
That's a good question. I I know again like we like we say it was unintentional
completely unintentional almost a fluke
We did one then we did say we didn't know and I didn't know anything about the
Continentals worldwide or the markers or anything till the second one made that
up
And the third one like oh, let's call it the high table sure someone will buy
that sure
And we just keep you know kind of riffing on stuff to do and just use your
imagination
But it works it does and I I think again and it works at a huge continental to
that
It's international like when he goes to Italy and he goes and gets suited,
right?
Well, that that was probably one of my favorite things. I love the suit. I love
That actor whoever that actor was that is explaining him the guns and oh, what
is it? Peter?
Serana fits. Yeah, yeah, he was in a couple he was in
The suits and the guns this whole scene that guy right there the the ball guy,
right? Yeah, that's Luca Mosca
That's actually my wardrobe supervisor. I couldn't cast somebody in time. So I
made him do it
peter's fun of it's this guy's funny so fucking funny
Yeah, you just agree by him as a complete psycho. That's he literally flew in
on the day learn the lines did the gig and flew out
Really? Yeah, he was awesome. Well, he's incredible. I what was that movie spy
was statham? Oh, yeah
He's Italian. He played the Italian spy. He was so funny
So the guy that's doing the wardrobe was your actual wardrobe
I couldn't I couldn't I kept sound like people would come in and start reading
I'm like just be like my guy here be like my
Okay, and we couldn't funny, but it'd be Luca here and Luca was so subtle. I'm
like, fuck it look good
And he'd never acted never acted before he's great. He's fantastic. He's great
I