Smoke, I want to finish this. There's a bit in the film about the Jason Statham Movie "Safe" Potentially Could Have the World's Introduction to the Kind of Gun-Fu Style That You Ended Up Bringing to the "Wick" Movies, and I Think It Was David Who Says in the documentary that, as a Little Pushback from Statham About His Preference for Some of the Action, I Think You Were the One Who was basically liked, "Screw this, we're going to. Own Project One Day. " What do you remember how it went down?

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Chad Stahelski: It's not the case it was (laughs).

Well.

Chad Stahelski: We work a lot with Jason. He is a very good friend of ours, I love him, I love his films, our team made "beekeeper", we are still working with him. As choreographers, whether we are at work or not, we are always for *** in the gym, trying to come up with others ***. At that time, there were many "taken", and it was very "bourne", it was very much of the sniffer camera with fast edits and things, and I came from pretty heavy military art with background with outrage in Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, Aiki-Bitsits, all this. At that time I really got into three guns. This was a way before "Johnon Wicks". We explored the whole world and thought it would be kind of ... We were just pushing when you see our early rehearsal strips, but we really liked it.

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And every time we make a movie with Jason or Stallone - at that time we did a lot of "spend" - we were trying to experiment as choreographers. So, we did a few beautiful awake things. Those were just a pistol-fu strip, you needed to see them all ... It's not like having one or the other. We also had 10 other ideas that we attract both to Asoneyson and all sorts of things. You know what I mean? And, as I said, in a previous interview, it was like "good, well, when you design a character ..." - I don't know if you've ever seen "safe" or what it is

I did.

Chad Stahelski: It is an ex-special man of the forces who is now a homeless man, who must not talk or communicate with the human race, and he should save a little girl. So, Boaz (Jakin), as a director, designed it in a certain way. So, Asoneyson is a homeless boy, he is kind of form, but he has a (military) background, and at the time he seemed to not look like, if you live on the street and not eat properly and not in shape, he would be like, "Well, why is this guy so good? It wasn't like we hated him. All were like: "Oh, this is great, it just doesn't fit the character. Why did he shoot guys in (face)?" It's not about counting the body. It was a very specific, grounded, real -world emotional work of someone who was lost, trying to find a family, a little girl.

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I can choreography a fight scene with you and I, and no one has to die, beat up - there are many variables. But you do a fight with a gun? Someone dies. And it usually takes only one bullet, especially the way we shoot, right? POW, pow, pow, pow ... f ***, you shot four times in half a second. So, it changes the melody of the film. You can't have a movie with a gun-fu with just two bad guys. Would be very boring. You see the way we go through the body count - it's near, I have to throw the boy and then shoot it. He just didn't answer.

Go back and do body count, it's 350 people on "Johnon Vick 4." You know what budget did I have for stunts? You could make the movie "Safe" from our trick budget. Was crazy. And it gets a little funny. It's a little Wile E. Coyote, right? It must be, with suits of fireproof suits. Just, when you really go back and think about it, it's not for anyone to say they don't like the gun-fu style. You have to remember what is a gun-fu and in "Johnon Wick", that's like, "Oh, f ***, that's great, it's obvious. Great!" But put it in the movie "Burn", or put it in the real film - put it in "Heat" - or put it on "Mission: Impossible", it will become Madly.

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Yes.

Chad Stahelski: I spent 10 years in building a franchise to be a bug, to have a world where I can kill 300 - friend, say it: 350 bad guys. It's crazy! And you wonder why people don't ... no one hated it, everyone watched and laughed. It's great. But logistically, it would be so weird for that movie. Tonal, logistically, financially, it would never work. We were nonsense we used, knowing that there was no way to be a great choice of characters for him. Of course, some of the aikido, and the individual moves. But I, Asoneyson and Boaz's director, were like: "Yes, it's cool, but ..."

And there is a little hint about it, when Jason does disarmament in the restaurant and things. It was there. And Asoneyson could do it all, no problem, and a wonderful, Jason man. I want to see his ***. Simply, it wasn't the real character, tone and movie about it. I use the example of, you saw a "matrix", right? Okay, the photo Neo makes a gun-fu. The movie is changing dramatically, isn't it?

It does.

Chad Stahelski: Good. If I don't change anything else, imagine a "Johnon Vick" with a wire. Changing the film, isn't it?

It does.

Chad Stahelski: Do you hate wire work?

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No.

Chad Stahelski: No. Do you hate the gun-fu? No. Do you hate black jackets? No. Do you hate running? No. That's (like) wardrobe, suits the character. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But you are just listening to that story, you don't hear 50 other things we've gone through. We were great at the work of the match. No one tells the story of how, "They didn't use saber to fight" Safe! "" We didn't make a wide word in "Johnon Wick". However. But in Highland, you hit what I do a lot?

Oh man.

Chad Stahelski: So, style is part of the character. So, again, it wasn't.

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