John Wick Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details
50 of the most interesting John Wick easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of John Wick movie message.
An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and took everything from him.
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
Director
Chad Stahelski
Stars
Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe
IMDB score
7.4
John Wick Movie Trivia
To get Daisy to wake John up, they had to smear bacon grease onto Keanu's face so the puppy would lick him.
John Wick Movie Easter Eggs
Keanu Reeves says to Laurence Fishburne "So I guess you have a choice." This phrase, or variations of it, was a constant theme of these actors' previous collaboration, the Matrix Trilogy (1999-2003).
John can be seen wearing 2 wedding rings as a nice little emotional detail showing his strong connection to his wife who passed away.
A video game being played has a player named PointBreak, Point Break is a movie starring Keanu Reeves
Keanu repeats the iconic quote from The Matrix (1999). "Guns. Lots of Guns."
When John goes to kill Iosef, the gamer tag of the guy who is playing CoD is named "Neo".
Gregori is seen playing a video game in which his username is Neo, which is a reference to Keanu Reaves' character in "The Matrix."
There is a scene where john running through the library and you can see ernest (who later tries to kill him).
Accuracy details in John Wick
Club Shootout , he uses Heckler and Kolch P30L with a 15 round magazine . If correctly noticed he reloads after every time he fires 15 rounds
John Wick movie hidden details
Before the action starts, John wears his wristwatch normally. But when he goes into the "battle mode", he wears them face inside the wrist, which is the way soldiers usually do it. (So that they could see the time while holding a rifle and to avoid reflections of the glass)
John drives his car over a small airport field. The security guard who lets him in is reading "Shibumi", a novel about a retired killer who at one time in the book is killing somebody with a pencil. John is a retired killer and killed 3 men with a pencil.
"John Wick: Chapter 3" John mixes parts from some Colt & Remington revolvers to make a functional FrankenRevolver. This is a reference to a memorable scene in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" where Tuco does the same DIY gunsmithing
"John Wick Chapter 3" when John assembles a custom revolver, it's an homage to a very similar scene with Tuco from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
John's Mustang bears a 2014 Inspection Sticker. This is because chapter 2 takes place immediately after chapter 1, which was "present day" when the first film was released in 2014.
Charon, the concierge, is named after the ferryman of the dead in Greek mythology. In Greek mythology, the dead are left a gold coin in their mouth to pay Charon for safe passage much like the gold coins the Continental uses and that Charon is paid with.
The security guard is reading Trevanian's novel "Shibumi", also about a retired master assassin dragged back into the game. The story Viggo Tarasov tells about how Wick once "killed three men with a pencil" is describing a scene from that novel.
Francis' subtitles say he's lost 60 pounds. However, in Russian, he says he lost 27 kilograms (60 lbs). Following this, John finds a total of 27 guards inside the club. Francis was subtly tipping him off to help him.
John is surprised to run out of bullets after he rapidly fires all the 7 shots given to him. This is because he is used to the 15 round H&K P30, which was his weapon of choice for the majority of the first movie.
John Wick 1 and 2 were filmed in gap of 3yrs but the storyline of the sequel are delayed only by few hours.In both movies there is a scene where John enters Continental in a particular angle.. In both the scenes we can notice most of the cars in the same position.
Superb Continuity from John Wick/John Wick 2: Despite Being Filmed/Released 3 Years Apart, The Films Are Set 4 Days Apart. All The Cars Outside The Continental Hotel Are The Same Between Films
John Wick and John Wick 2 are set 4 days apart, and the movies show this by having the same cars parked outside the Continental Hotel
His wife's coffee mug has the same design as the note card that his wife sends him with his new dog.
The dog in the vet's office was scheduled to be put down.
JW is drinking Blantons Green Label which is only sold in Europe. The first movie had him drinking Blantons SB only sold in USA
When John's s house is burned he pays a visit to Santiago D'antanio. There you can see a homeless man sitting outside musium. After John is hunted by the assassin's later in the movie the same homeless man saves John and offer him safe refuge and leads John to Santigao.
Every time someone says "Be seeing you." It is not just a simple farewell, Its also an underground assassin's way of saying "I chose not to kill you this time." This can be seen from the very first time it is said the first movie as well as the last time in Parabellum.
Baba Yaga punches a man with his gun as last resort after he runs out of ammo. The next time he uses the gun John double checks the barrel for jamming
the motorcycle fight scene of John Wick 3, Keanu (an avid rider himself) uses just his left hand to fight, keeping his right hand on the throttle at all times. He is forced to use his right hand once and seamlessly brings his left hand over to the throttle to keep up his speed.
Not sure if this has been posted before but in John Wick 3 (2019), During the final scene the placement of the flowers in the background gives the Adjudicator devil horns
both John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2, Viggo and his brother describe John Wick the exact same way. Even following up with the story about the pencil.
John's shotgun has a cartridge mounted right in front of the ejector port so he can quickly load one round directly into the receiver.
All of John's weapons from Italy are modified by Taran Butler, a world champion shooter who trained Keanu Reeves for this role.
Your position in the John Wick: Chapter 2 underground hierarchy is demonstrated through phone technology, with Winston being the only character to own a modern generation iPhone
John Wick: Chapter 2 [2017] when Wick offers Italian mafia boss Santino D'Antonio a coffee, instead of reaching for the already brewed drip coffe (or American coffee) he pulls an espresso shot for his Italian guest.
John Wick escapes into the subway, three black billboards in the background says "Question the System" "The Only Way Out is to Go Through" "Give Them the Lead First"
A movie riddled with amazing stunts pays homage to Buster Keaton at the very beginning.
John Wick Chapter 2 when Santino calls John Wick to give him his mission, he is overlooking a painting depicting Italian Civil war. The mission he is to give John Wick is to murder Santino's own sister.
I'm not sure if this was intentional but the flowers line up perfectly with the adjudicatiors head as, what I believe is symbolism.
Jimmy has a family picture taped inside his police hat.
After John gets his car back, you can see his tags still say 2014 from when the first movie was made and the last time we saw the car.
Bowery King/Lawrence Fishburne reminds John Wick/Keanu Reeves of an encounter they had years ago and he also told him that no one sneaks up on him anymore. And in John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum we see that, as he knew the ninjas were behind him and yelled to them "OK!"
The bowery king does truly have eyes all over New York.
John had just gone out to get some toys for his new dog Daisy. We know how things ended up later that same day...
First meets the Russians at a gas station in NJ... where it's not legal to pump your own gas
John Wick is tasked by Santino to kill his sister Gianna so he can take her seat at the High Table. Her coronation ceremony takes place in the Baths of Caracalla, the namesake of which infamously had his sibling (his brother Geta) killed so that he could become sole Emperor
Bodyguard Francis is most likely revealing the number of gunmen inside the building, not his weight.
Scenes with John when he's in control of fights are presented in a cool blue or green, scenes with Viggo and other characters drawing John back into the assassin life are presented in reds, and characters who represent John's escape from that life generally have gold color schemes.
When John and Viggo are fighting hand to hand, John stabs himself with Viggo's knife to make it easier to break Viggo's arm. When John stabs himself, he actually stabs his already open wound from earlier in the movie.
You can see that the drivetrain of his new Challenger was removed prior to being wrecked.
The Hindu goddess statue behind Winston is Kali. She's a deity often associated with violence and death but in this scene John has just been freed of his marker and is liberated from his obligation. Accordingly, many Hindu sects believe that Kali bestows moksha (liberation).