SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for John Wick: Chapter 4. If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk!
It’s not easy to build an original big screen action series in Hollywood these days. For the most part, studios prefer to lean on the name recognition of popular intellectual properties – be they from books, comics, video games, or television. But that’s part of what makes the John Wick movies an impressive anomaly. In 2014, stunt veterans-turned-directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch teamed up with Keanu Reeves to make a unique, kick ass film about an assassin who comes out of retirement to get revenge for his murdered dog, and over the course of the next decade, that film managed to spawn what is now considered to be one of the best action franchises of all time.
