Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski React to John Wick 4 Fan Theories

We kinda get like- You can't give that away.

Is that one of the spoilers?

Yeah, that's a spoiler.

[groans] Vanity Fair, you need to cut that.

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Hi, I'm Keanu Reeves.

And I'm Chad Stahelski.

And we're going to talk about some fan theories

for John Wick: Chapter Four.

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You're going to die.

Maybe not.

A new day is dawning.

[gun clip clicks]

New ideas, new rules,

[blade rasps]

new management.

I have spent time on Reddit.

I just don't spend a lot of time on Reddit.

Don't want some of those things rattling

around the head, you know.

[Crew] And Keanu, are you online?

I'm not, no.

[Crew] Not on Twitter?

None.

So this is gonna be new and exciting.

Okay. Posted by u/GymnoJake.

I think Winston is a much bigger deal

in the assassin underground

than the films make him out to be.

He knows where Iosef is in Chapter One.

He knew where Perkins was.

He knows John was ordered to kill him

in Chapter Three by the Elder.

His verification number

when labeling John excommunicado is 11111.

Not even Santino D'Antonio,

the next heir to the Cammora seat

in the High Table has a number that seems that significant.

I think John and Winston have been making their plan

since Santino blew up John's house.

No.

No.

And yes.

Yes. Lot of history.

Lot of history. Lot of history.

Winston is that important. He is hiding.

Bigger. Bigger.

I mean, he seems to be connected to the High Table.

He's connected.

At least he's respected and connected.

Respected and connected.

New York City.

And he's ambitious.

Very.

Does he want to have a seat at the High Table?

Hm.

Could he have a seat at the High Table?

He could.

Could he? Dunno if he wants to.

I don't think he could. But he's very important.

But not working with Santino.

I don't think they had a plot. No, no. No. But yeah.

But he knew Santino.

He could have had a plot with Santino to twist the plot.

Yeah, but there's no plot. Okay. Go ahead.

F: When John says that he doesn't sit at the table

then Winston says, 'Your family does.'

Three to four seconds later you see John

and a woman looking at each other.

I think that could possibly be his sister.

That'd be awesome.

A bad ass sister that will slay foes just like John.

Ms. Baba Yaga.

I think he's talking about Natalia.

Yes. Yes.

So that would be-

No

No.

She is bad ass and she could slay foes.

But not John's blood relative.

No. No.

But in the tribe.

In the tribe of the Ruska Roma

she's considered very close to John.

I knew her father.

Stepsister-ish.

Okay. Cousin-ish

No, we're getting crazy.

We don't know.

I'm going to need a gun.

♪ Goodbye my friend ♪

♪ It's hard to die ♪

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Rafael Gale. Gahl?

I'm sorry if I pronounced it incorrectly.

I have to say, I think Winston is pulling the strings

with the revelation that John's family sits at the Table.

I wouldn't be surprised if Winston is using John

to either eliminate those who are trying to usurp his power

because he's the Head of the Table.

Mm.

Or using John to gain power to overthrow the Table.

Solid strategy.

Solid. Wrong.

Yeah, wrong.

[Keanu laughs]

I mean, we're saying that,

but that's not the story that we're telling.

I think that Winston's very clever like that.

Yeah.

But not the Head of the Table.

No.

Winston has a very big role in this one actually.

He's always had a pretty good part in it.

He's always been really part of the DNA.

He gave me the address to The Red Circle.

Yep. He gave the address to The Red Circle.

He helped change the bounty.

He's pretty tied in.

And he does have his way of manipulating.

And I saved his life,

and he shot me off a roof. Yes.

No head shots.

No.

He got him right in the jacket. He's assuming that...

I think a lot of people think

that he knew you had the bulletproof suit on,

so that's how he shot you.

Gave you an edge.

What about the five stories to the ground?

I think he was counting on that awning.

He knew that one air conditioning-

That one awning.

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Shaka Zulu: Theory time.

When Winston says, 'your family'

I think John probably was an orphan,

so they put him away for safety.

His family was really good at hiding that

they're in the underworld.

He's not saying John's family exactly

but family as in his wife's family.

My theory since the beginning

that she or her family are in the Table.

Hm. Nice one.

Yeah, that was good.

Maybe future stories.

Yep. I think that's, we're gonna tuck that one away.

Is he dead yet?

Yep.

What?

[Keanu imitates explosion]

Mind blown.

No, but you can't do that

because John Wicks are sincere.

We don't lie.

We don't try to trick you.

You know, the characters are all-

They're all straightforward.

There's no...

Well...

We're not trying to do any jockeying.

No.

They're pretty altruistic.

Yeah. [dramatic music]

♪ You got yourself, yourself, yourself ♪

This is from Will Norris.

I can't believe that people aren't picking up

that John Wick is getting married in part four.

[Chad laughs]

I can't believe it either, Will.

That is how his family will have a seat at the Table.

He has to marry into the family.

Which is why Fishburne says that a man needs to

look good getting married or buried.

John's off to get married in that scene.

No.

I don't think John's gonna get married

in this John Wick.

I think he's still in those stages of grief with Helen.

A John wedding would, I imagine, be pretty...

People would be well-dressed.

Yeah, well-dressed.

I think it would-

There'd be champagne. It would be an occasion.

And there'd be dancing.

There'd be dancing and a dog.

lunarmemo:

So I have two theories.

The first one is that John Wick before the beginning

of the first movie, and what we are seeing is his travels

through the seven rings of Hell.

Good. He's on it. Dante.

'til he reaches Paradise and reunites with his wife.

I know this sounds crazy

but the movie does reference 'The Divine Comedy'

in subtle ways.

Second theory is that his wife was somehow connected

to the underworld, but they are holding back on the reveal.

Hm.

Love the Dante reference.

Love The Divine Comedy.

Yeah. We reference that a lot.

I mean, it's kind of part of the multiverse.

It is.

Like if we wanted a multiverse.

If we wanted a multiverse,

we'd send John to Hell. We could do that.

No, I know.

But we could also like [imitates blender whirring]

Shake it up.

And then, you know all sorts of

different dynamics would be happening.

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stormcrown:

I love the slowly unveiled world-building of the series.

Like in the first movie

it seems like a regular underground mafia

or an assassin thing in an otherwise same world as our own.

By the third movie, and some of the dialogue

of this new trailer, my friend and I developed a theory.

It's possibly an alternate universe where armies

don't really exist and all war and conflict is carried

out by this international assassin league

that spans possible centuries of existence.

There's your multiverse.

[Keanu imitates blender whirring]

Wow, stormcrown.

[Keanu imitates blender whirring]

Great idea.

Good palate.

[Keanu imitates blender whirring]

There's probably a great TV show in that.

Already starting.

Yeah. Alternate universe.

It's definitely an alternate reality.

I mean, John Wick is already a kind of hyper-reality.

We're in the hyper-real world.

You know what I mean?

And I think it's not a bad idea actually.

No.

No, that would be a good one.

November Alpha:

Winston said that Rick's family holds

a chair in the High Table.

At 59 the song says, 'I am the black sheep of the family.'

Sounds like it's about John Wick himself

who left the comfortable life of a High Table chair holder

and took the path of an assassin.

Yeah. Again.

Yeah, no.

I know, but we're back to the other things.

But they do like the idea

that you're coming from that world.

Yeah.

Which I think John's more ground level

and worked his way up.

No, I think John's family is dead.

Yeah. I think they're all-

I think they were actually killed.

Yeah, the way we had planned is

Wick has always been of the orphan thing, the orphan origin.

♪ Woke up this morning ♪

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sharpie.| popping in:

This is a slim chance.

But remember that guy that Gianna was talking with

before she got killed?

I think his name was Akoni.

Yes. Yes.

Yeah. I feel like he's going to come back

in 'John Wick 4' to fight against the High Table.

Ooh, Akoni.

No.

Well, it doesn't happen,

that doesn't mean that it can't be.

No, but Akoni could be it.

He's got some grievances.

He does, and we liked Akoni.

Yeah. I mean, I think if there's like...

Well, we can't give that away, but yeah.

Yeah. We can't give that away.

Can't give that away, either.

Can't give that away. Or Akoni...

There's so many great sub-characters we put

into the world that we really didn't explore.

So hopefully we get the chance to do that at some point.

The fact that people think about it as much as they do

and we've given 'em hopefully the seeds to

grow all their own ideas.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah, man.

I think we work on the kind

of like show don't tell,

but also what you're showing

has a history behind it, you know?

And I think you can feel

that in the films that there's a coherence

of what you're watching

but you're not learning all of the details.

The way we write these things is we kind of write

the really detailed scene.

And then Keanu here gets up and really acts out

everybody's part and the writers and I try to

keep up as he's acting them out.

Man. So I guess that's kinda-

It's your world,

and I'm just playing in it.

Last words, Winston?

Just have fun out there.

[man laughing]

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So thank you very much and thank you.

Thank you.