John Wick Franchise director Chad Stahelski weighs in on Eva Longoria’s financial lifeline in the original movie.
Longoria recently acknowledged a $6 million investment for the first time and said business insider She still received a check for the 2014 film, but sadly didn’t invest in the entire series, which has grossed $1 billion at the box office.
Appear in hollywood reporterof It happened in hollywood Podcast, Stahelski says he had no idea his angel investor was star of podcast desperate housewives until later John Wick Completed and published.
“Interesting enough, [co-director] dave [Leitch] I didn’t know anything about the situation until the movie came out,” Stahelski explained.
“About a week before we went into production, we had gap financing. We got into a dispute with an investor over a loss of about $6 million. So when you [making an] An $18 million movie that could kill you. And we have no money. So many crew members left. We are losing locations. In fact, we were 24 hours away from failure. So between Basil [Iwanyk, the film’s producer]Myself, Dave, Keanu, everyone postponed, wrote checks, we put everything in – and it still wasn’t enough,” he continued.
“Then, 48 hours before we had to roll, Basil came to us and said, ‘Hey, I found an investor who can fill the gap.'” We jumped right into the film without much thought, and it was almost a year later Found out it was Eva Longoria! Well, Dave and I found out, and we were like, “Oh my God!” We had no idea. So we called her the next day and took her to lunch at Chateau Marmont to say thank you and we couldn’t thank her enough,” he said.
For years, Longoria and Stahelski mocked her good instincts.
“She said, ‘It’s an investment, I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what it is. But it sounds kind of weird and cool,'” he said. “So I hope she gets every penny back. I hope she makes millions.
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