Donnie Yen displayed his martial arts experience all through his “Ip Man” run. However with “John Wick,” he’ll be absolutely immersed within the collection’ distinctive type of gun-fu. The type, pioneered by legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo, options closely all through the “John Wick” collection, and entails gunfights interspersed with combined martial arts. However Chad Stahelski and his 87Eleven Motion Design firm have pushed gun-fu to a stage even Woo most likely by no means envisioned.

Now, it is Yen’s flip to have a go on the super-charged gun-fu of the “John Wick” saga, in a highly-anticipated face-off with Keanu Reeves’ hitman that is been closely teased within the  “John Wick: Chapter 4” trailer. And as Stahelski defined to Collider, the conflict of two motion film titans required him to as soon as once more step issues up:

“I can do the Donnie Yen triple kick. I can do all this, however you additionally wish to do one thing completely different. So, you begin sitting, you come at it from character, and you’ve got quite a lot of discussions with the blokes going, ‘Okay, Donnie is wonderful at this. Keanu is wonderful at this. They’re each nice actors, so let’s lean onto that, and let’s do one thing we’ve not seen earlier than.'”

That “one thing” mainly amounted to giving Yen a sword and a pistol, whereas Reeves used a samurai sword and a few handguns for the massive showdown. Past that, Stahelski defined how he pushed issues additional by throwing in, “an AR-15 and a glass mirror room with Japanese artifacts,” alongside, “a few canines.” All of which ought to mix to make a suitably spectacular set piece that attracts on the gun-fu type of the franchise whereas mixing issues up with the addition of the swords.