The John Wick franchise started out simple. It was a story of former assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) getting revenge on the spoiled son of a crime boss who killed the dog John's late wife had gotten him. As such, it came in at a brisk one hour and 41 minutes. But the sequels have expanded the world and each movie's runtime, with John Wick: Chapter 4's runtime blowing its predecessors out of the water at two hours and 49 minutes.
But according to John Wick director Chad Stahelski, the initial John Wick: Chapter 4 runtime would have made the movie one of the longest in Hollywood history.
