ShayHatten explains the secret to writing JohnWick: Chapter 4, the brilliance of KeanuReeves, and his upcoming spinoff, Ballerina.
Shay Hatten is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand writers in Hollywood. While interning with Team Downey over six years ago, Hatten wrote Ballerina, a spinoff to the John Wick franchise about a dancer-turned-assassin. After the script was purchased in 2017, Hatten helped co-write John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. Since then, Hatten has teamed with Zack Snyder to help write Army of the Dead, Army of Thieves, and the upcoming sci-fi epic Rebel Moon.
In a conversation with Digital Trends, Hatten explains the secret to John Wick, the brilliance of Reeves, and the upcoming spinoff, Ballerina.Digital Trends: I want to start with how you crafted this story because everyone knows the John Wick films rely on highly choreographed action sequences that are huge in scale. Does [director] Chad [Stahelski] come to you and say, “OK. I have this action sequence in mind. I’m going to set it in Paris.
John is a man of few words. You have to make his dialogue count. You can’t waste any words. He gets right to the point. What’s the secret to writing John’s dialogue? Well, I think the key to it, and this is really the key to working on these movies at all, is just remembering the emotional core of John’s journey, which is he’s a guy who really only cares about one thing, which is the memory of his wife. Everything else he cares about — whether it’s his dog, his car, his freedom — are all extensions of his love for his wife. So no matter where this franchise goes, it’s just remembering that that is all he’s trying to service.
It feels very special, I’m not going to lie. I think what’s so cool about it is that I’ve written a number of movies at this point, but Ballerina is the first one that’s based on something that I just wrote as an original spec. I was a broke writer, just tapping away at night after my day job, and that was the script I wrote. And then to see it go on this long journey over the years and finally become an actual movie, it really is special.
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