Principal photography commences for "John Wick 2" and will a release date be announced soon?
Collider's Steven Weintraub claims that the sequel has begun production in Brooklyn. Other sources confirms reports that no-parking notices have been placed around the Barclays Center.
The original film also filmed in Brooklyn - including the Brooklyn Bridge Park, as well as other locations around New York.
Meanwhile, rapper-turned-actor Common has been cast as a villain in "John Wick 2."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 43-year-old musician will portray a female crime lord's head of security.
Rumor had it that "John Wick 2's" story would revolve around the titular character and his relationship with his mentor. Now, Keanu Reeves himself has unveiled the sequel's plot.
While promoting "Knock Knock" with Collider, the "Point Break" actor offered details about the follow up.
"I think we have a really good premise, and it's an organic premise," he said. "It's basically - to me there's John Wick and then there's John. You know, John is the married guy whose wife just died, and that five years of his life. Then there's John Wick, who's the mythical assassin."
Reeves will be reuniting with the original film's creative team - director David Leitch, co-director Chad Stahelski and screenwriter David Kolstad.
"Chad and the writer, Derek Kolstad, they've really listened to what people have enjoyed about the work and how they speak about it," Reeves shared. "So there's definitely that influence of the other world, the Continental world, the look, the feel, what it is about the movie, what made people like it."
Keanu Reeves also promises more of the first movie's "Gun-Fu" in the sequel.
"We're gonna do the same kind of thing in the sense of - what are the guiding principles?" Reeves added. "So it's longer takes, know where you are on the space, who's doing what, action with consequence. And then going to other levels of what the gun-Fu was, which was Jujitsu and Judo mixed with weapons and different styles of weapon training."
"John Wick 2" does not have an official release date yet.
