Mike Jones Minute-Con 10/28/24

It's all about John Wick in today's #MikeJonesMinuteCon, how Eva Longoria saved the franchise and an animated prequel movie is in the works!

Episode Transcript

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His brain is full of nerves. And every weekday afternoon,
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What ten years ago this week, the first John Wick
movie came out in theaters, But it almost didn't happen.
Chad Stahelski and David Leech co directed the first movie
in the series and told Business Insider that they ran
out of money while filming and almost had to shut
the production down, but a last minute donor came through
Eva Longoria gave them six million dollars to get to

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the finish line. The first john Wick made eighty six
million dollars and Eva got not only quite the return
on her investment, but she saved the whole franchise. And
now there's another story coming in the John Wick world.
An anime film is being developed which will tell the
tale of what happened before the first movie, what the
impossible task was that he had to do to leave

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the Assassin's world behind. We have that to look forward to,
along with Ballerina and a TV series that will pick
up after john Wick. Four. Get your daily pop culture
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