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Box-office forecasts say the film is likely to place at #3 for the weekend, losing out to the kid-friendly Lego Batman Movie and the powerhouse R-rated Fifty Shades franchise.

John Wick: Chapter 2 is head-shotting and body-slamming its way to U.S. Our discussion turned to the creation of John Wick titles without $100 million-plus budgets, and the director explained how the shootout in the mirror art exhibition proved to be one of the film's greatest challenges.Ĭontinuing, Chad Stahelski gave tremendous credit to all of the artists who collaborated with him on John Wick: Chapter 2 - noting that their work prevented any one particularly big action sequence from forcing a sacrifice in any other department.Behind the Scenes As Actors Train Up for the Stunt-Laden Sequel This was something that Chad Stahelski fully acknowledged last month when I sat down to talk with him during the Los Angeles home video press day for John Wick: Chapter 2. Much of the production value in the John Wick movies comes thanks to the incredible skills of the 87Eleven Action Design team and their ability to help choreograph and perform beautiful action sequences, but it truly takes a village to make a film. But there's a big gap between a quarter of a million and a million-and-a-half. Do you build a $250,000 version? Well, no, because then it's two mirrors on a wall. In our model, that wasn't going to work! So do you scrap the idea? No. How are we going to do it? We have to figure out how to do it.' And the first blueprints come back, and it's a $1.5 million set piece. The first time I set that out, the production designer said, 'Do you need that?' I said, 'Yeah.

I really wanted to do something like that.

The most expensive thing in John Wick 2 was that I wanted to do the mirror room sequence.