“When we say John Wick is pain, it’s kind of like a ‘fuck yeah.’” So declares Keanu Reeves in Wick is Pain, an upcoming documentary about the John Wick franchise that will be available on dgital on May 9.
IGN can exclusively reveal the trailer for the film, which features new interviews with Reeves, director Chad Stahelski, and more cast and crew who have worked on the four films. (You can watch the trailer via the player above or the embed below.)
Directed by Jeffrey Doe, Wick is Pain utilizes never-before-seen footage shot over a decade both on and off the set of the Wick films. The doc also chronicles the travails of the very first John Wick movie from 2014, a small indie film plagued by financier problems that got shut down at one point.
“We were panicked. This is Keanu fuckin’ Reeves. You do not wanna let him down,” Stahelski recalled in the trailer about the dire straits the first movie found itself in.
“I don’t know how you find six and a half million dollars by Monday,” producer David Leitch said. Fellow producer Basil Iwanyk was even more blunt: “I took money out of my house. We are doomed. We are completely fucked.”
(John Wick’s savior turned out to be actress Eva Longoria, who invested the $6 million necessary to resume production.)
And yet despite all that turmoil and pain, John Wick ultimately spawned a billion-dollar franchise.
IGN has been with the series since the very beginning. We visited the set of the original film in New York City where we chatted with Keanu Reeves and co-star Adrianne Palicki, and we even exclusively debuted the first movie’s trailer back in 2014.
Beyond Wick is Pain, fans of the franchise have the upcoming spinoff Ballerina to look forward to as well as the recently announced John Wick 5 and an anime prequel film.
