If Keanu Reeves' dog-loving hitman had stuck to his original body count, the John Wick franchise might never have made it past the first film. According to director Chad Stahelski, the Baba Yaga was a far less violent soul in the original draft, which at one point went by a completely different name.
Speaking to Comic Book about the new documentary Wick Is Pain, which chronicles the journey of the now billion-dollar Keanu Reeves-starring franchise, Stahelski recalled how he initially didn't feel needed for the project, considering that the star's suit-wearing warrior only had a couple of kills to his name when the project crossed his desk. “I swear to God that the first day it’s called Scorn. I think John Wick only killed two people. I think it was like two or three people or something like that," explained the director. "It was very contained, Cold War kind of thing. And I said, ‘Look, this is great, but like, you don’t want us, like, it’d be no problem to help you, but you don’t need us. Like, it’s not that kind of movie where you need, like, our whole team and cost you millions of dollars.’"
