In terms of what’s ostensibly a finale, typically there is a feeling that it’s essential ramp up the stakes to point out that “playtime” is over, and it is time to get severe. Often, that is carried out by way of the loss of life of a serious character. Now, I have a tendency to search out this tactic a little bit of a straightforward copout, however when it is dealt with with care and real coronary heart, it may be extremely efficient. For “Chapter 4,” Lance Reddick’s Charon was sadly chosen to be that individual. Talking with /Movie’s Vanessa Armstrong, screenwriter Michael Finch stated it was one of many hardest decisions within the script:

“The only saddest factor that I personally was concerned with, was killing [Charon]. I believe Chad [Stahelski] and Keanu [Reeves] felt it that we would have liked to offer a jumpstart or catalyst to the motion of the piece. [Charon] clearly is not totally clear. Like everybody on this world, he capabilities in grey. He simply occurs to be a little bit nearer to the sunshine than among the others. You genuinely like him as a human being as a result of he is a beautiful human being … The collective choice was that we’d like one thing to make us actually f*****g hate this Marquis, and what’s going to make us hate him greater than this?”

The top result’s actually a hit. Skarsgård’s Marquis can by no means come again from that betrayal, very like Alfie Allen’s Iosef Tarasov grew to become immediately irredeemably after killing John Wick’s canine. Besides right here, the real-world grief could subconsciously make us hate the Marquis even a little bit extra.