(Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Lionsgate)Īt 169 minutes - 160 minutes worth of movie, and nine minutes of closing credits - the fourth John Wick picture is already an extra-long final chapter. John Wick: Chapter 4 director, Chad Stahelski, and Keanu Reeves at the film's Hollywood premiere. I found his influences endlessly fascinating and unexpected, and approached this from the perspective of just making a good movie as opposed to having a big background in action.'

'He wanted someone who would organically find the movie he shot. 'He didn't want someone to come in and put their own stamp on a John Wick movie,' Orloff recalls of his initial conversations with the director. Orloff is actually a new addition to the John Wick team: Both of the previous sequels were edited by Evan Schiff, but when he was unavailable to work on the final chapter, Stahelski recruited a fresh voice who had limited experience in the action realm. 'It was a little daunting to know that at first, but my favorite scene in the movie is the one where John and the Bowery King talk about his epitaph, 'Loving husband.' That's so Clint Eastwood: this simple line with an ocean of emotion under it. 'Both Chad and Keanu wanted to do an epic samurai Western as a closing statement,' the 35-year-old editor confirms, adding that he knew the film would end with the death of John Wick when he first signed on. Both Reeves and Wick franchise architect, Chad Stahelski, have already said that ending should be taken literally, not metaphorically, and Chapter 4's editor, Nathan Orloff, backs up those sentiments in an interview with Yahoo Entertainment.

The final shot of the film - which scored a franchise-best opening weekend gross - lays him to rest alongside his dearly departed wife, Helen (Bridget Moynahan). At the end of John Wick: Chapter 4, Keanu Reeves's weary assassin lays down his guns at last, succumbing to wounds sustained during his climactic duel with High Table marquis Vincent de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård). Warning: This post contains spoilers for John Wick: Chapter 4. (Photo: Murray Close/Lionsgate/Courtesy Everett Collection)

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