John Wick - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[michele]

The tattoo shown on Wick's back during the shower scene is the Latin phrase "Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat", which literally translates to Fortune Favors the Strong. This is used as the motto of several military units over the world.

[sophie]

Second movie in which Keanu Reeves drives a black Dodge Charger, the first being Street Kings (2008).

[victoria]

Although this is the first time that Keanu Reeves and Willem Dafoe have acted together on film, both were in the Speed franchise: Reeves was in Speed (1994), and Dafoe was in Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997).

[frances]

Tony Leonard Moore said that his character was originally going to be drowned face down in a toilet. But given how complicated it would be to shoot around the toilet with a camera, they changed it to the sink. Moore said that he had lightly concussed his head off the marble sink. But given he had another scene to shoot that day, he followed through.

[melinda]

Not only Randall Duk Kim and Daniel Bernhardt are reunited with Keanu Reeves from The Matrix franchise, Marilyn Manson is in John Wick's Soundtrack.

[linda]

His back tattoo "Fortuna Fortes Juvat" means Fortune Favors The Bold.

[sophie]

During hand-to-hand combat scenes, John Wick shows himself to be a judoka, and use Japanese traditional jujutsu. Judo is a Japanese martial art emphasizing throws. Specifically, Wick repeatedly uses head throws and arm throws. On the other hand, his rival assassin, Ms. Perkins, uses Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (employing a Kimura shoulder lock, the crucifix position and using her leather jacket as a gi to perform a wing choke in her fight against Wick in the hotel room).

[nicholas]

In the original script, the character of John Wick was written with "a man in his mid-sixties" to play the role, given the title character's fabled reputation, ergo, the filmmakers had initially imagined an older actor. However, head of Thunder Road Pictures, Basil Iwanyk, decided against this, stating, "Instead, we decided to look for someone who is not literally older, but who has a seasoned history in the film world."

[lonnie]

John Wick is a dog lover. Keanu Reeves played a deformed character called "Ortiz the Dog Boy" in Freaked (1993)). Ortiz was a mutant character crossed between a human and a dog.

[chris]

Ian McShane replaced Jason Isaacs as Winston.

[nora]

John Wick's watch, seen in the Red Circle changing room scene when he drowns his adversary, is a Carl F. Bucherer Manero Autodate, retailing for $3495.

[bernard]

During the Dust 514 (2013) scene, the mobster can be seen shooting an enemy with the name "Point Break".

[amber]

Daniel Bernhardt, who was also in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), studied martial arts before becoming an actor, which is the opposite of most actors who had to learn some martial arts to depict fight scenes in movies. Daniel Bernhardt's Agent character fought Morpheus on top of the moving eighteen-wheeler in The Matrix Reloaded (2003).

[wallace]

The story is loosely inspired by an incident in Texas involving former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, who wrote Lone Survivor, about his fireteam's ordeal during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan in 2005. Luttrell was given a yellow labrador puppy, whom he named DASY, after the members of his fireteam. On April 1, 2009, at about 1:00 a.m., Luttrell was awakened by a gunshot, and saw four men drive away. DASY was dead in his yard from a gunshot wound. He armed himself with two 9mm Beretta pistols and chased the men through four counties in his truck until police apprehended them. They taunted Luttrell, threatened to kill him, and indicated no remorse for their actions. They were later sentenced for animal cruelty. Luttrell stated later, "I spared them, because I've killed enough people already."

[nicholas]

When John Wick awakens to the Russians in his home, the scene mirrors a similar incident that happened to Keanu Reeves in 2014 (the same year the movie was released), where Reeves awoke to a stalker that had broken into his home. Reeves calmly talked to the stalker, then called the police at the first opportunity he had, and the stalker was then arrested soon after.

[frederick]

One of Michael Nyqvist's final acting roles before his death on June 27, 2017. (Age 56).

[riley]

Keanu Reeves' career was looking a bit dicey when he took on this film. Constantine (2005), The Lake House (2006) and the expensive remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) had all underperformed. Fortunately, this was a sizeable hit.

[janice]

The shotgun John Wick uses towards the end of the film is a Kel-Tec KSG.

[miriam]

This movie reunites three actors from the HBO television series Oz (1997). Although they do not share screentime, Lance Reddick, Clarke Peters, and Dean Winters appear in the movie.