“John Wick” directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch are set to return fo the world of “The Matrix”.
Before creating the “John Wick” franchise, the pair were best known for their work as stunt directors on numerous films including the entire “Matrix” trilogy.
Speaking with Collider recently, Stahelski confirmed they are onboard for the fourth installment in the series which was in the midst of shooting under director Lana Wachowski when the coronavirus pandemic shut it down. He says:
“They were really cool. They asked us to help out with the choreography and some of the physical training for the guys. I’m helping out a little bit for a sequence, I think Dave’s helping out for a sequence. Lana’s come back with a lot of love to have a pseudo-family reunion, so that’s been a lot of fun. It’s been good to see a lot of the crew members again. We just finished doing a sequence in San Francisco before the pandemic started.”
He labels the project “incredibly fun,” says the franchise is “coming back with a vengeance” and confirmed their work on the film is more at the conceptual level this time:
“It’s more about the creative concept of some of the choreography and backing them up with stuff. Other than the Matrixes, most of their stuff…what makes [Lana] so great is she directs her own action. We’ve had second unit directors on some of the Matrixes just because of the logistics involved. But of late, and especially on Matrix 4, she’s directing her own action. The second units for them are mostly establishing shots, the B-sides of the some of the compositions for some locations. But Lana, she does her own action. She weaves it into the main unit stuff, which is why their stuff looks so good.”
Leitch had previously mentioned a strong desire to be a part of the film whilst out doing press for “Hobbs & Shaw” last year. Lana Wachowski co-wrote the new film’s script with Aleksander Hemon and David Mitchell.
