Following on from this week’s first poster and news of a New York Comic-Con panel, director Chad Stahelski has been chatting to Collider about the upcoming sequel John Wick: Chapter 2, stating that it has “twice the action” of the first movie, as well as teasing what’s in store when Keanu Reeves’ retired hitman heads to Rome to take on some of the world’s deadliest killers.

“I would say we had twice as much action as the first movie,” states Stahelski. “We took it all a full notch up as far as the driving car stuff went. A great portion of the car chase in the opening of the film is Keanu, which is very impressive… People kept asking us in the year after the movie came out, ‘We’d like to see more about the hotel.’ ‘We’d like to see more about all the different characters. ‘What is this underworld where everyone’s the best?’ What’s it like to be in a world like this? That’s what we really wanted to expand on. Me and the other creators on the show, my partner and the other producers, the biggest attraction to us about filmmaking really is creating a universe, and creating a world, and creating a little bit of escape. That’s really what we focused on and we’re hoping that’s what comes across in the second movie.”

John Wick: Chapter 2 is set for release on February 10th and reunites Reeves with returning stars Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, Bridget Monahan, Tom Sadowski, and Lance Reddick. New additions to the cast include Laurence Fishburne (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Common (Selma), Ruby Rose (Resident Evil: The Final Chapter), Riccardo Scamarcio (Burnt) and Peter Stormare (Fargo).

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