In the 2014 sleeper hit John Wick, Ian McShane (“Deadwood”) played the mysterious and enigmatic owner of the Continental Hotel, a boutique hotel that caters to assassins. He didn’t have a lot of screen time in the first film, but he made quite an impression. Will we see more of him in the upcoming sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2?
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“Well, I’m kind of the only one left from the first one,” McShane told Entertainment Weekly. “This is same kind of premise. It’s not like two years later, but pretty soon after the first one. Keanu [Reeves] is a great guy. They got this terrific Italian kid, Riccardo Scamarcio, who plays the chief villain, who’s excellent, and we have a lot of stuff together. And the guy who directs it, Chad Stahelski, is really smart. He’s been Keanu’s stunt guy for [nearly] 20 years and he’s studied muay-thai. He’s got every stunt man who’s available for [this film]. The action looks like it was done by somebody out of Hong Kong instead of Hollywood which I always think is a great sight.”
The first film had a revenge-driven plot. Can we expect more of the same?
“Keanu gets a new dog. But yes, it’s about what comes on him after that,” he offered. “It’s all about the assassin’s code, if you like. He’s killed a Russian gangster and now there’s a contract out on him, so it’s a continuation. I loved the first one. This could be even better than the first.”
Keanu Reeves returns in the sequel to the 2014 hit as legendary hitman John Wick who is forced to back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers.
The cast features Keanu Reeves, John Leguizamo, Lance Reddick, Bridget Moynahan, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, Ruby Rose, Common, Peter Stormare, and Riccardo Scamarcio.
Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 2 arrives in theaters on February 10, 2017.
