John Wick 4, the director shot a much more mysterious alternate ending

John Wick 4 has made a alternate endingmuch more mysterious according to the director Chad Stahelskibut then discarded, favoring the conclusion brought to the cinema. Keanu Reeves is back with the fourth installment of the acclaimed action franchise. But how would the alternate ending add more mystery to the film?

John Wick 4, the director tells the alternative ending of the fourth chapter

Attention: you will find below spoilers about the fourth John Wick film and also about the ending of the film. To the microphones of The Hollywood Reporter, Chad Stahelski has revealed that at first he also shot an alternative ending of John Wick 4, much more mysterious than the one then shown in theaters. In fact, after the test screening, the director and the rest of the team preferred to continue with the original plan, i.e. the one later shown in the cinema. According to the director, the ending then chosen for John Wick 4 is much more exciting than the alternative one, which instead focused more on mystery.

To be honest, it wasn’t very accurate during the test screening. I didn’t tell a lot of people, but we did an extra scene and shot a different ending. It didn’t include a duel, but we revealed that John Wick… well, we shot a funeral scene differently and we wanted it to be a little more mysterious than that. That’s why you see the puppy looking up towards the end during the funeral scene. We wanted to try both endings because both Keanu and I wanted to make a good movie and figure out which choice was more satisfying.

The fourth chapter of John Wick is collecting good results at the box office for the franchise, as well as has already collected excellent reviews. The spin-off is already in the pipeline Dancer

starring Ana de Armas as well as the prequel series The Continental. According to the director, the alternative ending of John Wick would have hinted that the protagonist is not actually dead. In any case, Keanu Reeves has said that the final scene of John Wick 4 is his favorite ever. When, on the stairs, he says his wife’s name, Helen: it’s his favorite scene of him after eight years spent one-on-one with John Wick. In an interview during the South by Southwest Film & TV Festivalthe actor added:

We had the opportunity to make another film because audiences responded well to John Wick 3. And we asked ourselves: why? Chad and I talked about it and why it was death, John Wick’s death. For him to get peace, freedom, in a way that was the reason to make another film.