Out promoting J. J. Perry’s vampire-hunting Netflix film “Day Shift” starring Jamie Foxx, that film’s producer Chad Stahelski offered an update on another project of his – the fourth “John Wick” film.
Stahelski has directed all the entries in the beloved Keanu Reeves-led action series to date, including the next entry, which is due in cinemas on March 24th next year.
Though it’s still over seven months until the film’s release, Stahelski has spoken with Collider and revealed that the movie is well into the post-production phase with the editing nearly done:
“We’re on the final stretch for picture lock, and then we have our VFX music. But this is the furthest along I’ve ever been, this much in post. We love the music that we’ve got so far. We still have Tyler Bates doing the composition on some of the bigger sequences.
VFX are going to be coming in throughout the rest of the year. But we’re dangerously close. In our edit, as far as our picture lock goes, we’re within a few minutes of locking. Our sequences are done. The movie is essentially done. There’s probably another few weeks of tweaking overall, then we lock picture, and we’re about music sound and the effects.”
Stahelski was asked about the length of the new film and while he wouldn’t reveal the run time, saying: “it’s longer than the other three, but not that long”. That suggests it’s only slightly longer than the 131-minute runtime of “John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum”.
The comments come in the wake of the film’s first trailer, which was released the other week. Regulars Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane and Lance Reddick are back, while Rina Sawayama, Donnie Yen, Shamier Anderson, Bill Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada, Scott Adkins and Clancy Brown co-star in the new entry.
As for where things stand with a fifth installment, he says right now the studio fully intends to continue the franchise.
