According to Collider, “John Wick: Chapter 4” clocks in at a whopping runtime of 2 hours and 49 minutes.
The first film was 101 minutes. The second film ran at 122 minutes, while the third clocked in at 131 minutes. Now, the pattern of "bigger and longer" will continue.
Still, I’m actually surprised that “John Wick: Chapter 4” is going be close to three hours long. It’s not the type of movie that usually has this kind of runtime. The films have been lean, without much fat to them. Maybe they’re going for more story and substance with this one.
Star Keanu Reeves previously told Total Film, "John Wick: Chapter 4 has the most action of any of the [John Wick] films, which is saying a lot. And it's more by a good margin. It's a big show."
The film is set to be released on March 24th, 2023. Keanu is back, so are Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane and Lance Reddick. Director Chad Stahelski is also back in the fray working with a script co-written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch.
Production began on June 28, 2021, in Berlin and Paris, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and wrapped on October 27, 2021. Why the gap between wrap and release?
A fifth chapter has already been greenlit with Reeves saying he’ll keep making “John Wick” movies as long as the franchise stays successful. So he’s basically playing a game of wait-until-one-bombs at the box-office.
Given how successful these films have been, we could potentially end up with 8 or 9 of these. I’m not complaining, the first two were fantastic and the third one decent enough. However, a sense of repetitiveness is starting to seep into this franchise, but hopefully Reeves/Stahelski have a fresh and winning formula for ‘Chapter 4.’
While James L. Brooks teased last year that "we'll soon be seeing" Jack Nicholson, 89, act again, and that he was "reading scripts," that idea has now been shut down by his close friend Michael Douglas, 82.