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Last day of training in L.A., the team is off to NYC!! John Wick 2...If there is a dog...we'd advise everyone not to mess with it!

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While speaking to Keanu Reeves for his upcoming horror flick Knock Knock, Steve took the opportunity to ask about the upcoming John Wick sequel and got some great information on how writer Drew Kolstad and director Chad Stahelski (who co-directed the first film) are approaching the story, their plans to top the first film's excellent set pieces, and more.
With regards to the story, Reeves revealed that there are essentially two characters at play - John, the guy, and John Wick, the legendary assassin - and for the sequel we can expect to see John Wick going to battle for John.
"I think we have a really good premise, and it's an organic premise. It's basically - to me there's John Wick and then there's John. You know, John is the married guy whose wife just died, and that five years of his life. Then there's John Wick, who's the mythical assassin. In this, John Wick's past comes and infiltrates John's life and John Wick, in a way, has to fight for John."
According to Reeves, one of the major questions was trying to find a reason to keep the story going without rehashing the same emotional beats from the first film.
"'Why tell the story? Why do we need to do this again? How do we do that without doing another dog?' So we speak about John Wick, the next chapter, and what is that emotional hook? What is that? So I think we have a good idea of that."
And if you were a big fan of the Hotel Continental and the idiosyncratic world-building component of the first film, expect to see that interest paid off. Kolstad and Stahelski have paid attention to what the fans want and they’re looking to "open up" that world in the new chapter.
"Chad and the writer, Derek Kolstad, they've really listened to what people have enjoyed about the work and how they speak about it. So there's definitely that influence of the other world, the Continental world, the look, the feel, what it is about the movie, what made people like it; is definitely being paid attention to and the world opens up in this chapter."

It's the question that drives us...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/john-wick-2-common-play-834635

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www.msn.com/en-us/video/p/john-wick-2-begins-filming-in-brooklyn/vp-BBmB8th

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