John Wick 4: Keanu Reeves And Chad Stahelski Explain The Movie's Ending

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The following article contains major spoilers for John Wick: Chapter 4Now that John Wick: Chapter 4 is out, the film’s ending left many fans gasping, especially after star Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski had initially teased plans for a fifth movie. However, both men insist this latest installment makes perfect sense for the Baba Yaga.

In John Wick: Chapter 4, the movie reaches its climax when High Table rules force John to face off against his friend Caine (Donnie Yen) in a gun duel as the only way to claim his freedom from the council. John is shot by Caine, though he surprisingly uses the standoff to kill the Marquis de Gramont before seemingly succumbing to his wounds, with his last words being “Helen,” his wife’s name. The final scene then cuts to Ian McShane and Lawrence Fishburne's watching over John Wick's grave.

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Against all odds, John Wick is dead, and while many moviegoers will find the idea unfathomable, it all fits inside the plan. «We had the opportunity [to do another film] because the audience [response to] Chapter Three, and we were like, ‘What was the Why?'» Reeves said at SXSW (via The Hollywood Reporter). “And when Chad and I were talking, the Why? was death — and it was John Wick's death. For him to get his peace, or freedom, in a way…that was the reason to make the movie. It can’t just be, ‘Let’s do another one.’ It was really about death, or a way of dying."

In that sense, Reeves and Stahelski took inspiration from the Hagakure, a.k.a. The Book of the Samurai, a Japanese code of ethics. «We kind of took the way of dying — or the way we live well to die well — as the theme,» Stahelski said, which will hardly come as a surprise in a film that takes