(Left) Three-time Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and spouse Sun-jung Jung attend the 2010 Governors Awards within the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, CA, Saturday, November 13. Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Right) Keanu Reeves as John Wick in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4.’ Photo Credit: Murray Close.
There aren’t many individuals who would wish to go toe to toe with Keanu Reeves’ murderer character from the ‘John Wick’ franchise. But director Oliver Stone seems like he’s spoiling for a struggle –– or a disagreement, at the very least.
Speaking to Variety on the Transilvania International Film Festival the place he was selecting up a lifetime achievement award, Stone was unflinching in his criticism of the motion motion pictures the place Reeves cuts a swathe via varied enemies.
Stone on ‘John Wick’
Here’s what Stone needed to say concerning the ‘Wick motion pictures:
“I saw ‘John Wick 4’ on the plane. Talk about volume. I think the film is disgusting beyond belief. Disgusting. I don’t know what people are thinking. Maybe I was watching ‘G.I. Joe’ when I was a kid. But Keanu Reeves kills, what, three, four hundred people in the f*****g movie. And as a combat veteran, I gotta tell you, not one of them is believable. I realize it’s a movie, but it’s become a video game more than a movie.”
It would possibly sound shocking coming from the director of violent motion pictures reminiscent of ‘Natural Born Killers’, ‘Platoon’ and the author of 1983’s ‘Scarface’, however then a lot of his filmography has been concerning the horrors of such actions.
Stone was additionally vocal when it got here to his emotions about fashionable motion pictures’ model:
“How many cars can crash? How many stunts can you do? What’s the difference between ‘Fast and Furious’ and some other film? It’s just one thing after another. Whether it’s a super-human Marvel character or just a human being like John Wick, it doesn’t make any difference. It’s not believable.”
He’s additionally offended about the way in which motion pictures are made as of late:
“When they make movies now, they want to think about how do we market it, who’s going to watch it? Of course, that’s a consideration. But it becomes the sole consideration. You really have to have a bigger and bigger hit, which ruins the business because it makes the margins bigger, and of course that makes the cost of the film bigger.”
Keanu Reeves as John Wick in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4.’ Photo Credit: Murray Close.
Going nuclear
In his personal profession, Stone hasn’t loved as a lot success as his Eighties and Nineties heyday, together with his dramatic motion pictures failing to attach with audiences and struggles to get documentaries made as he’s more and more seen as a contrarian.
Most lately, Stone needed to struggle to make a documentary referred to as ‘Nuclear Now’ about how nuclear energy has been unfairly vilified (regardless of the likes of occasions reminiscent of Hiroshima and Chernobyl).
Here’s what he stated concerning the frustrations of the brand new documentary:
“It was rejected. It was rejected at birth. No financing. No company wanted to do it. No Netflix. It’s crazy. People in showbiz are idiots. They just go with the trend; they just go with the fashion — it’s a fashion business.”
Academy Award profitable director Oliver Stone (proper) presents director Jacques Audiard, “A Prophet (Une Prophete)” (left) with a certificates of nomination for the 82nd Academy Awards at a Foreign Language Film Award reception held within the Grand Lobby of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, CA on Friday March 5, 2010. The Academy Awards for excellent achievements of 2009 can be offered on Sunday, March 7, 2010. Credit/Provider ©A.M.P.A.S. ©A.M.P.A.S. All rights reserved.
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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ is produced by Lionsgate, Thunder Road and 87Eleven, and scheduled for launch on March twenty fourth.
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