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The character was originally written as a 75-year-old before the Speed star expressed an interest in playing the role.
“The lead was a seventy-five-year-old man, twenty-five years after being retired.
Keanu Reeves in John Wick.David Lee/Lionsgate
It was the fun of watching Clint Eastwood kick ass.
Other than that, I’m not sure how I put this movie together.
But the tone of the script forJohn Wickwas subversive and really fun.
Cover of ‘They Shouldn’t Have Killed HIs Dog’.St. Martin’s Press
It has a very clear emotional through line and a great premise for an action movie.”
Iwanyk was not the only person interested in the screenplay.
A bidding war had begun.
Keanu Reeves in John Wick.David Lee/Lionsgate
If you want to have a career as a writer, we should take this.'
That never happens."
“And he said, ‘Do you have any action movies for Keanu Reeves?’
What’s he been doing?
And he was directing his movie,Man of Tai Chi, and doing47 Ronin.
We give him the script, we tell him, ‘Clearly, you’re not 75.'”
Reeves warmed to the character of John Wick and to the universe created by Kolstad.
“We all agreed on the potential of the project.
This den of thieves that have this honor and a code.
And I loved the quest that he goes on to reclaim his life.
And the world he moves through to do it.”
One thing everyone agreed on?
Keanu Reeves would not be playing a 75-year-old.
“I spent two months at Keanu’s house on the weekends working on the script.
He reads them all.
And I’m like, ‘Fine.'”
They Shouldn’t Have Killed His Dogis available on July 19.
