John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[janice]

Early on, Wick finds himself in a room filled with revolvers from the 19th century. Desperately, he swaps parts of the revolvers, listens to the mechanisms as he spins the cylinders and cocks the different hammers. This is a homage to the scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), when Tuco is assembling a revolver to suit his taste from a multitude of other revolvers in a gunsmith's shop.

[kristina]

Jason Mantzoukas is known for playing many memorable television characters including Rafi in "The League," Jay in "Big Mouth," Adrian Pimento in "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," and Derek in "The Good Place."

[christina]

Keanu Reeves describes John's conflict in this film as "a battle between two sides of himself: John and John Wick" He says, "John is the guy who just wants to be left alone, who seeks a quiet life in which to remember his wife. In order to do that he has to engage the side of himself that is John Wick, the side that knows how to fight to the death. John Wick is the only one who can help John survive."

[darrell]

Halle Berry had to focus on increasing her endurance while training. She says, "Because of Chad's long takes, it's essential to have really good cardiovascular stamina so I could do lots of moves at once and then do them over and over. I also wanted to show I could keep up with Keanu Reeves, which is no easy deal."

[charlie]

Mark Dacascos (Zero) was born into the martial arts. Both his father Al Dacascos and his mother Malia Bernal are respected, accomplished, and highly trained in Kajukenbo (a Hawaiian Mixed Martial Art: Karate Judo/Jujutsu, Kenpo, Boxing). Dacascos created his own form of martial art; Won Hop Kuen Do.

[carl]

In the 15th century Casablanca became known as a safe haven for pirates.

[albert]

Jason Mantzoukas joked about wanting to be cast in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) on his podcast How Did This Get Made, where he reviewed the Keanu Reeves movie Johnny Mnemonic (1995) with Paul Scheer and Jessica St. Clair.

[marc]

Wick's true name is Jardani Jovonovich. Jovon is the Serbian Hebrew form of the name John. His last name means "son of John". Jardani is from the Hebrew which means "of the garden". As is seen by the crucifix, his tribe was obviously formerly Jewish but had converted to Christianity at some point.He also identifies the tribes origins as being in Belarus. This is the former Soviet state which borders Poland at the west and has Minsk as its capital.

[ethel]

Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, and Lance Reddick are the only actors to appear in all the John Wick films to date (2019).

[sophie]

The title "Parabellum" comes from the Latin phrase: "Si vis pacem, para bellum" which means "If you want peace, prepare for war." It is also an alternate name for the ubiquitous 9mm handgun cartridge ("9mm Parabellum"). The phrase itself appears three times in the movie: it is tattooed on the back of the ballerina girl in the beginning, it appears on the door of a bus outside the hotel, and Winston (Ian McShane) says it out loud later in the movie.

[aaron]

The filmmakers wanted to do the fight in the glass gallery without any effects. Director Chad Stahelski says, "We relied on choreography, lighting, and camera angles, which meant the design had to sync with the action."

[oscar]

Cinematographer Dan Laustsen's favorite scene to shoot was the one at Grand Central Terminal. He says, "It's just so iconic New York. We wanted to light it in our own shadowy way, and it's difficult to do there because the working conditions are rough. You have to come in and get out fast. We only succeeded because we had such a fantastic lighting and grip crew in New York."

[kyle]

The Russian book featured in the library scene is Russkye Narodniye Skazkii, published in English as Russian Fairy Tales, by Aleksandr Afanasyev, and is a prominent collection of Russian fairy tales like those of the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christians Andersen. It includes the first known written tales of Baba Yaga, who is a central metaphor in this series. John Wick says the title and author correctly while requesting the Russian language version at the library.

[kristen]

The exteriors of The Continental were filmed at the Beaver Building, which is at the intersection of Pearl, Beaver, and Wall Streets. The building is also known as the Cocoa Exchange.

[frances]

Some hotel scenes were filmed at One Hanson Place in Brooklyn, which is the tallest building in that borough. It was once known as the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower.

[kenzi]

The motorbikes used in the chase scene are Yamaha MT-09s

[ken]

This is the third time Keanu Reeves and Tiger Chen fight each other after The Matrix Reloaded and Man Of Tai Chi.

[norma]

The showdown in the Continental lobby contains many intentional lighting changes, and one of them is a direct allusion and tribute to a key Matrix scene and overall Matrix Trilogy color theme.

[clayton]

Five different dogs portrayed Sofia's two dogs. They were trained by Andrew Simpson, who also trained the dire wolves in "Game of Thrones." The dogs were taught a one-of-a-kind form of dog martial arts that Chad Stahelski created for the film.

[claude]

"Guns. Lots of Guns." (From the trailer) The same line used by Neo (Keanu Reeves) in the Matrix.