Chad Stahelski & David Leitch Talk John Wick, The Matrix, Speed Racer and More - Collider Connected
452Last week I conducted a live interview with directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch for our new series Collider Connected. As you’ve hopefully seen in our previous episodes, Collider Connected allows us to go in-depth with our subjects due to the length of the conversations, and this discussion with Stahelski and Leitch was no different. Even though we had talked about the interview running around 45 minutes, we hit the 90-minute mark and I still had questions! I would have kept it going, but Leitch was late for a meeting.
If for some reason you're unfamiliar with Stahelski and Leitch, the two got their start as Hollywood stuntmen before becoming stunt coordinators, creating their own action design company 87eleven in 1997. Stahelski and Leitch quickly became household names in the stunt world, and began directing second unit on tons of projects including Captain America: Civil War. In 2014, they released their directorial debut John Wick, and have since gone on to successful careers all their own—Stahelski has continued to steer the John Wick franchise, while Leitch has directed films like Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, and Hobbs & Shaw.
If you’re a fan of their work, you’re going to love this interview. During the wide-ranging conversation they talked about what they learned from working with the Wachowskis early in their careers, what they did on Speed Racer and how it was like going back to film school, working with Lana Wachowski on The Matrix 4, the formation of their action design team 87eleven, what it will take to get stunt work recognized at the Oscars, the status of a new Highlander film that Stahelski is developing, the importance of pre-production, and they shared some great behind-the-scenes stories about the making of the first John Wick (which they directed together) including how it almost was a straight to home video release. In addition, we talked about future projects like John Wick 4, Atomic Blonde 2, Deadpool 3, Hobbs & Shaw 2, and so much more it would be impossible to list it all here.
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