"Marketing was like, 'Dude, that's four to five million dollars in free advertising so far'" The co-creator of the John Wick franchise has revealed that the films were originally set to have another name.
They were changed, though, after star Keanu Reeves kept repeatedly calling the film the wrong name. In a new interview with Comicbook.com, John Wick co-creator and screenwriter Derek Kolstad revealed that the first film in the series was originally set to be called Scorn, but Reeves would repeatedly call it John Wick instead — so much so that the name stuck and ended up becoming the name for the franchise. “The only reason it’s called John Wick is that Keanu kept referring to it as John Wick,” Kolstad said. “Marketing was like, ‘Dude,