Wick is Pain: Exclusive Trailer for the New Documentary Chronicling the John Wick Franchise

“When we accidental John Wick is pain, it’s benignant of similar a ‘fuck yeah.’” So declares Keanu Reeves successful Wick is Pain, an upcoming documentary astir the John Wick franchise that volition beryllium disposable connected dgital connected May 9.

IGN tin exclusively uncover the trailer for the film, which features caller interviews with Reeves, manager Chad Stahelski, and much formed and unit who person worked connected the 4 films. (You tin ticker the trailer via the subordinate supra oregon the embed below.)

Directed by Jeffrey Doe, Wick is Pain utilizes never-before-seen footage changeable implicit a decennary some connected and disconnected the acceptable of the Wick films. The doc besides chronicles the travails of the precise archetypal John Wick movie from 2014, a tiny indie movie plagued by financier problems that got unopen down astatine 1 point.

“We were panicked. This is Keanu fuckin’ Reeves. You bash not wanna fto him down,” Stahelski recalled successful the trailer astir the dire straits the archetypal movie recovered itself in.

“I don’t cognize however you find six and a fractional cardinal dollars by Monday,” shaper David Leitch said. Fellow shaper Basil Iwanyk was adjacent much blunt: “I took wealth retired of my house. We are doomed. We are wholly fucked.”

(John Wick’s savior turned retired to beryllium histrion Eva Longoria, who invested the $6 cardinal indispensable to resume production.)

And yet contempt each that turmoil and pain, John Wick yet spawned a billion-dollar franchise.

IGN has been with the bid since the precise beginning. We visited the acceptable of the archetypal movie successful New York City wherever we chatted with Keanu Reeves and co-star Adrianne Palicki, and we adjacent exclusively debuted the archetypal movie’s trailer backmost successful 2014.

Beyond Wick is Pain, fans of the franchise person the upcoming spinoff Ballerina to look guardant to arsenic good arsenic the precocious announced John Wick 5 and an anime prequel film.