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John Wick’s Chad Stahelski to direct gritty fantasy Arcana

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Lionsgate has tapped John Wick director Chad Stahelski to helm Arcana, a gritty fantasy film from Predators writers Michael Finch and Alex Litvak, according to Deadline. Arcana is described as “a gritty urban fantasy set in the hidden world of magical clans.” Stahelski will produce with Jason Spitz and Alex Young through their company 87Eleven Entertainment with Finch […]

A Look Back at The Expendables Franchise (And a Look Forward…)

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Ten years on from the release of the first movie, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Expendables franchise and then looks at where it can go now (and who needs to join the crew)… When The Expendables was first announced in late 2009, my excitement levels went through the roof. Initially it was Sylvester Stallone, […]

John Wick director on working with Lana Wachowski on The Matrix 4 action scenes

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Prior to making the jump into directing on John Wick, Chad Stahelski and David Leitch served as a stunt performers and coordinators in Hollywood, working perhaps most notably on 1999’s The Matrix and its sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Despite having both branched out successfully into directing in the two decades following the […]

John Wick: Chapter 4 has been delayed a year

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We’re going to have to wait another year before we see Keanu Reeves’ master assassin back in action, as Lionsgate has announced that it has pushed back the release of John Wick: Chapter 4 by more than a year. The next instalment was originally set to open on May 21st of this year, the same […]

The Greatest Action Directors of All Time

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the greatest action directors of all time… The action genre has never particularly had the greatest respect associated with it. Maybe there’s a feeling that they’re dramatically anaemic, or sometimes intellectually inferior, but this isn’t always the case. It’s a genre that doesn’t always have consistent specialists, because certain directors who […]

John Wick directors tease their involvement with The Matrix 4

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Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, the directors of John Wick, have teased their involvement with The Matrix 4. Before their work directing John Wick and reuniting with Keanu Reeves, Chad Stahelski and David Leitch were involved with the groundbreaking stunt work on the iconic Matrix trilogy. Both of these men are returning for the in-production […]

John Wick director Chad Stahelski teams with A Quiet Place producers for car-themed action movie

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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that John Wick director Chad Stahelski is teaming with producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller for brand-new action film for Paramount Pictures. The script will come from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles writers Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum. The writing team first met with Form and Fuller while working on Michael […]

Birds of Prey’s Cathy Yan reveals how she got John Wick director Chad Stahelski to help with the action sequences

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With the release of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) around the corner, director Cathy Yan has revealed that she initially had the John Wick franchise in mind when planning out the film’s fight scenes and how she approached Chad Stahelski, the director of the John Wick films, for help to […]

Exclusive Interview – John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Sound Editor on differentiating every gunshot, recording dog noises and ADR grunting

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Harrison Abbott chats with John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum sound editor Mark Stoeckinger… From the outset, John Wick has garnered much attention for its impeccably crafted fight sequences, building up a rabid cult following in the process. Even those who aren’t as bowled over by the movies are forced to admit that – from […]

John Wick director on the possibility of adding more Matrix stars into future instalments

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Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick trilogy, has discussed whether there is a possibility of adding more The Matrix actors, in addition to Laurence Fishburne’s Bowery King, in future instalments of the franchise. In an interview with ComicBookMovie, this is what the director had to say about inserting The Matrix actors such as Carrie-Anne Moss and Hugo Weaving down the […]