He knocks her unconscious and leaves her with Harry, a fellow assassin, to await punishment, but she frees herself and kills Harry. Marcus alerts John, allowing him to subdue Perkins, who is forced to reveal the location of Viggo's front. Perkins, an assassin and former acquaintance, sneaks into John's room to kill him. John retreats to the Continental to have his injuries treated. John enters the Red Circle and kills a horde of thugs to reach Iosef, who narrowly escapes after Viggo's lieutenant Kirill waylays and incapacitates John. Winston, the Continental's manager, informs John that Viggo has Iosef under guard at his nightclub, the Red Circle. Viggo doubles the bounty for those willing to break this rule to kill John. John seeks assistance from the New York Continental Hotel, which caters exclusively to the criminal underworld and permits no assassinations (termed "business" in their language) on its premises. Unsurprised, Viggo places a $2 million bounty on John's head and personally offers the contract to John's mentor, Marcus, who accepts. Viggo sends a team of hitmen to John's house, but John kills all of them and enlists an underworld cleaning service to dispose of the bodies and evidence. After warning Iosef of his impending doom, Viggo tries to talk John out of seeking retribution, but John refuses to talk. John succeeded, and his efforts were key in establishing the Tarasov syndicate. When John wanted to retire and marry Helen, Viggo gave him an "impossible task", implied to involve multiple high level assassinations in a short period of time. Aurelio relays Iosef's activities to Viggo, who beats and berates Iosef before explaining to him who John Wick is: a famed assassin, formerly in Viggo's employ, nicknamed " Baba Yaga". Aurelio is visited by John, who identifies Iosef as the son of Viggo Tarasov, the head of the Russian crime syndicate in New York City. Aurelio, the shop's owner, recognising the car and knowing who it was stolen from, punches Iosef and throws him out. Iosef takes the Mustang to a chop shop to have the VIN changed. That evening the gangsters break into John's home, knock him unconscious, kill Daisy, and steal his car. At a gas station, he encounters a trio of Russian gangsters whose leader Iosef insists on buying his car, which John refuses to sell. Despite John's stoic demeanor, he bonds with the puppy and they spend the day driving around in his vintage 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1. While struggling with his loss, he receives a beagle puppy named Daisy that Helen had arranged to send before she died, to help him cope with his grief. John then loses Helen to a terminal illness, and is heartbroken. Legendary hitman John Wick retired from his career as a contract killer to live a normal life with his wife Helen, and the two have lived happily for 5 years. A sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2, was released in 2017, and was met with comparable critical and commercial success. It grossed $86 million worldwide against a production budget of $20–30 million. The film was met with positive reviews, with critics labeling it as one of Reeves' best performances and one of the best action films of 2014. The film also pays homage to works such as John Woo's The Killer, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samouraï, John Boorman's Point Blank, and the Spaghetti Western films. The film used fight choreographers and gun fu techniques from Hong Kong action cinema. Stahelski and Leitch's approach to fight scenes drew upon their admiration for anime and martial arts films. They previously worked with Reeves as stunt doubles on The Matrix trilogy.
It marks Stahelski and Leitch's directorial debut as a team after multiple separate credits as second-unit directors and stunt coordinators. The film was produced by Basil Iwanyk of Thunder Road Pictures, Leitch, Eva Longoria, and Michael Witherill. Kolstad had completed the screenplay in 2012 and further developed it for Thunder Road Pictures. Chad Stahelski and David Leitch directed the film together, though only Stahelski was credited. The story focuses on John Wick (Reeves) searching for the men who broke into his home, stole his vintage car and killed his puppy, which was a last gift to him from his recently deceased wife. It is the first installment in the John Wick franchise. It stars Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Winters, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe. John Wick (retroactively known as John Wick: Chapter 1) is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by Chad Stahelski, in his directorial debut, and written by Derek Kolstad.
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