Leave Your Mark With These John Wick Franchise Secrets

“It was awesome,” he told E! News during the press junket about making the film, praising the “visionary” director of all four John Wick films, Chad Stahelski, and promising “unhinged but beautiful” action.

And to think, the now 58-year-old star signed up for the first John Wick flick about a decade ago, having no idea just how much the grieving widower who comes out of retirement to exact revenge on the well-connected thugs who beat him up, steal his ’69 Mustang and kill the dog his beloved late wife arranged to be delivered after she was gone…

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Right, okay, just how much that character would resonate, that is. And here we are, nine years later, with the fourth movie in theaters, an idea for a fifth not off the table and several principal cast members, including Reeves, suiting up for the upcoming spin-off film Ballerina, starring Ana De Armas.

But before you pull up a seat at the High Table, re-immerse yourself in the John Wick universe with these secrets about the making of the hit franchise: