Filmmaker Chad Stahelski says test audiences preferred the ambiguous conclusion of the released movie.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forJohn Wick: Chapter 4.
“We had a different ending,” says the filmmaker.
Keanu Reeves in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’.Murray Close/Lionsgate
We shot an ending where you actually saw John Wick at the end of the movie.
So it was very clear that he was still alive.
The audiences we tested with absolutely preferred the ambiguous ending."
Reeves has previously suggested that Wick might not be as deceased as the released film’s ending suggests.
I mean, I wouldn’t do aJohn Wickfilm without Chad Stahelski.
We’d have to see what that looked like.
For me, it feels really right that John Wick finds peace."
Stahelski also hinted at the possibility that John Wick might not have died in the film.
“What’s the only way John could have gotten out?
However you want to take that, that’s cool with us.
But it feels satisfying to me, at least, and to Keanu.
We’ve come full circle, and that feels like a satisfying ending.
How you interpret it, I’ll leave it to you guys.”
