This Determined Housewives star saved John Wick with a much-needed $6 million funding lower than 24 hours earlier than capturing was to start.
Over the past ten years, the John Wick franchise has spawned sequels, spinoffs, TV exhibits, and video video games, so it’s arduous to think about that the primary film virtually didn’t occur. Whereas chatting with Enterprise Insider, John Wick administrators Chad Stahelski and David Leitch revealed that the undertaking had misplaced virtually $6 million lower than every week earlier than manufacturing was set to start. Fortunately, John Wick discovered an unlikely saviour in none apart from Eva Longoria.
“We had been lower than every week out and we misplaced virtually $6 million on a spot financing,” Stahelski stated. “We had been financing independently to get the bond, however one of many buyers couldn’t increase the cash in time.” Stahelski, Leitch, and Keanu Reeves had every put their very own cash into John Wick, with producer Basil Iwanyk maxing out a number of private bank cards, however they nonetheless got here up quick. CAA was serving to put the financing collectively and, in a last-ditch effort, provided a few of their purchasers the chance to put money into John Wick.
“[Eva] got here to the rescue and she or he supplied the hole financing, actually lower than 24 hours earlier than we needed to lock the doorways on the film and stroll away,” Stahelski stated. “Basil took us out to dinner [after filming], and we had been laughing about all of the bullshit that occurred, and he stated, ‘By the best way, comic story, you recognize who hole financed you? Eva Longoria.’ We had been had been like, ‘What!’” The John Wick director took Longoria out to lunch to thank her, and she or he later instructed the pair that investing within the film was “one of the best cash” she’d ever spent. Followers of hard-hitting motion and skull-splitting gunshots owe Eva Longoria a honest thanks.
The following John Wick undertaking to hit our screens shall be Ballerina, a by-product which stars Ana de Armas as a younger girl with killer abilities who units out to get revenge when hitmen kill her household. Because the movie takes place within the John Wick universe, it would function appearances from a number of franchise characters, together with Ian McShane as Winston, the proprietor of the Continental Resort, the late Lance Reddick as Charon, the Continental’s concierge, and Anjelica Huston because the Director, the pinnacle of the Ruska Roma. Keanu Reeves may even make an look as John Wick. The movie may even embrace Catalina Sandino Moreno, Gabriel Bryne, and Norman Reedus in undisclosed roles. The movie is about to hit theaters on June 6, 2025.
