Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are penning the sequel, while John
Wick co-director David Leitch was hired last November to helm the sequel.
John
Wick co-director David Leitch was named earlier as the leading candidate for the job however, and Deadline echoes that sentiment.
When original director Tim Miller left the project, in came to John
Wick co-director David Leitch, promising a slick amped - up, even more stylish level of brutal action.
Replacing him is John
Wick co-director David Leitch.
Directed by John
Wick co-director David Leitch, who took over from original Deadpool helmer Tim Miller, the sequel sees the return of Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth as he continues his shenanigans.
The current hot tip for the vacant director's chair is John
Wick co-director David Leitch.
As reported by Variety, John
Wick co-director David Leitch has dropped out of filming that movie's sequel so he can solo - direct a spy thriller, leaving Chad Stahelski to co-direct John Wick 2 all by himself.
John
Wick co-director David Leitchbrings a wonderful sense of character to each of the movie's many fight scenes and ensures each is reflective of those participating.
While the trailer has confirmed that this franchise will hold sole dominion over the descriptor of «irreverent» for the near future, the addition of John
Wick co-director David Leitch should kick the action sequences up several notches.
Today, The Hollywood Reporter announced that John
Wick co-director Chad Stahelski has been hired to direct the long in development Highlander reboot.
This comes off last week when Fox announced that his John
Wick co-director David Leitch was hired to direct Deadpool 2.
Not exact matches
The direction by David Leitch (who was, indeed, an uncredited
co-director of John
Wick) is brisk and fluid, and the script, which Reynolds co-wrote with Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick is, as noted, a substantial upgrade on that earlier effort.
There was little doubt the sequel, John
Wick: Chapter 2, wouldn't be just as breathtaking, and Chad Stahelski,
co-director of the first film, takes charge and delivers a sequel with authority.
Helmed by David Leitch,
co-director of the first John
Wick....
«Deadpool 2» was a no - brainer, and it is on the way from «John
Wick»
co-director David Leitch.
At the helm was stuntman David Leitch, the
co-director of John
Wick — together with Chad Stahelski.
Update: Variety reports that «John
Wick»
co-director David Leitch is the frontrunner to direct DEADPOOL 2, though a deal hasn't
«John
Wick»
co-director David Leitch will direct «Deadpool 2,» which is due to begin filming this summer.
John
Wick the director previously set that along with
co-director David Leitch, Ryan Reynolds will be back in DeadPool next series, and as standard villain Wade Wilson, Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) will also be there, The Teenage Warhead the Negasonic, and Dopinder which is a Taxi Driver.
I caught the world premiere of John
Wick in 2014 at Fantastic Fest, with Reeves, Stahelski, and David Leitch (uncredited
co-director) in attendance and the screening was electric.
James McAvoy Joins «The Coldest City» With Charlize Theron From «John
Wick»
Co-Director David Leitch
That's not to say it eschews digital effects but director David Leitch, a co-creator and uncredited
co-director of John
Wick and a veteran stuntman and stunt choreographer, uses digital manipulation -LSB-...]
Chad Stahelski will helm John
Wick 2 by himself, as his
co-director on the first film, David Leitch, recently departed for The Coldest City.
In an intriguing cinematic twist, Keanu Reeves» Matrix stunt double Chad Stahelski becomes his
co-director with David Leitch on «John
Wick,» a visceral revenge thriller that marks a confident, muscular action debut.
Just days ago
co-directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch revealed to Movies.com they were already developing a sequel to John
Wick.
John
Wick: Chapter 2 is set for release on February 10th in the US and on February 17th in the UK and reunites Reeves with the original's
co-director Chad Stahelski and returning stars Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, Bridget Monahan, Tom Sadowski, and Lance Reddick.
She was already there thanks to her work in Mad Max: Fury Road (and playing a villain in The Fate of the Furious certainly helps), but there's probably no faster way to action immortality than teaming up with one of the
co-directors of John
Wick.
Developing the series are the writers and directors of the movies, including David Leitch and Chad Stahelski (
co-directors of John
Wick; John
Wick franchise screenwriter Derek Kolstad and Chris Collins.
When we got our first look at Atomic Blonde earlier this week, where director David Leitch said all of the things that you'd expect the
co-director of the first John
Wick to say.
But he also brought an invigorating sense of style and timing to John
Wick, his directing debut with
co-director David Leitch.
It's the most influential American action movie of the decade, and if you've seen John
Wick, you've seen its influence on everything that has come after, up to and including Marvel movies (the
co-directors of the first JW directed the second - unit action photography for Captain America: Civil War).
The unique vision that Leitch, a former stuntman, brought to John
Wick's action (along with his
co-director Chad Stahelski, who made the second
Wick by himself) was essential to its success.
David Leitch,
co-director of stupendous shoot - em - up John
Wick, continues the command of vicious stunts and visual style that made his and Chad Stahelski's 2014 film a violent, classy classic.
David Leitch, the
co-director of John
Wick and director of this summer's Atomic Blonde, directs Deadpool 2, taking over for filmmaker Tim Miller.