John Wick was originally written to be a 75-year-old
In the new oral history They Shouldn’t Have Killed His Dog, the film's team recalls how the role evolved

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Imagine a version of John Wick where the main character is too old for this shit. That’s what was originally on the page before Keanu Reeves “got his talons into it,” according to screenwriter Derek Kolstad. In the new book They Shouldn’t Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Oral History Of John Wick, Gun Fu, And The New Age Of Action, by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman (as excerpted by Entertainment Weekly), the team behind the film explains how John Wick went from an old geezer to Reeves.