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James Gunn channeling Lollipop Chainsaw for Suicide Squad
John Wick 4 and The Hong Kong Massacre
“The staircase I knew I could own because it was a metaphor for Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill and being knocked down. We had that dialed in; we had the Arc de Triomphe dialed in,” director Chad Stahelski says. “The apartment fight wasn’t clicking. It was just a fight in an apartment. And I’m like, How do we shift perspective?” The former stuntman, who has helmed every John Wick installment, found the “special sauce” of inspiration in the 2019 video game Hong Kong Massacre, which unfolds from a bird’s-eye view. “There was a visual there that shouldn’t have made sense but did,” he says. “It was part video game, part anime, part cinematic experience.”
John Wick 4 and The Hong Kong Massacre
“The staircase I knew I could own because it was a metaphor for Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill and being knocked down. We had that dialed in; we had the Arc de Triomphe dialed in,” director Chad Stahelski says. “The apartment fight wasn’t clicking. It was just a fight in an apartment. And I’m like, How do we shift perspective?” The former stuntman, who has helmed every John Wick installment, found the “special sauce” of inspiration in the 2019 video game Hong Kong Massacre, which unfolds from a bird’s-eye view. “There was a visual there that shouldn’t have made sense but did,” he says. “It was part video game, part anime, part cinematic experience.”
