This Desperate Housewives star saved John Wick with a much-needed $6 million funding lower than 24 hours earlier than taking pictures was to start.

Over the final ten years, the John Wick franchise has spawned sequels, spinoffs, TV reveals, and video video games, so it’s exhausting to think about that the first film virtually didn’t occur. While talking to Business Insider, John Wick administrators Chad Stahelski and David Leitch revealed that the venture had misplaced virtually $6 million lower than every week earlier than manufacturing was set to start. Thankfully, John Wick discovered an unlikely saviour in none aside from Eva Longoria.

“We were less than a week out and we lost almost $6 million on a gap financing,” Stahelski stated. “We were financing independently to get the bond, but one of the investors couldn’t raise the money in time.” Stahelski, Leitch, and Keanu Reeves had every put their very own cash into John Wick, with producer Basil Iwanyk maxing out a number of private bank cards, however they nonetheless got here up quick. CAA was serving to put the financing collectively and, in a last-ditch effort, provided a few of their purchasers the alternative to put money into John Wick.

“[Eva] came to the rescue and she provided the gap financing, literally less than 24 hours before we had to lock the doors on the movie and walk away,” Stahelski stated. “Basil took us out to dinner [after filming], and we were laughing about all the bullshit that happened, and he said, ‘By the way, funny story, you know who gap financed you? Eva Longoria.’ We were were like, ‘What!’” The John Wick director took Longoria out to lunch to thank her, and she or he later advised the pair that investing in the film was “the best money” she’d ever spent. Fans of hard-hitting motion and skull-splitting gunshots owe Eva Longoria a honest thanks.

The subsequent John Wick venture to hit our screens will probably be Ballerina, a derivative which stars Ana de Armas as a younger girl with killer abilities who units out to get revenge when hitmen kill her household. As the movie takes place in the John Wick universe, it is going to characteristic appearances from a number of franchise characters, together with Ian McShane as Winston, the proprietor of the Continental Hotel, the late Lance Reddick as Charon, the Continental’s concierge, and Anjelica Huston as the Director, the head of the Ruska Roma. Keanu Reeves can even make an look as John Wick. The movie can even embrace Catalina Sandino Moreno, Gabriel Bryne, and Norman Reedus in undisclosed roles. The movie is about to hit theaters on June 6, 2025.