“John Wick. The man. The myth. The legend. You’re not very good at retiring.”
JAMES CHAPMAN is a professor of film studies at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Hitchcock and the Spy Film, in addition to a number of books on film and cultural history, and is editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
JASON CONSTANTINE is the president of coproductions and acquisitions at Lionsgate, best known for his work on The Expendables film series with Sylvester Stallone, horror franchises like Saw, and the John Wick franchise.
DANIEL CRAIG is a British actor, best known for the portrayal of James Bond as well as his lead role in the successful Knives Out mystery film series.
MARK DACASCOS is an actor and martial artist who rose to prominence with his 1993 film, Only the Strong, which would go on to influence a generation of martial arts films. He portrayed the role of John Wick antagonist Zero in the 2017 film John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum.
WILLEM DAFOE is an Oscar-nominated actor best known for roles in To Live and Die in LA, Streets of Fire, the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films, Inside Man, and Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter. He portrayed the role of Marcus in John Wick.
STEVEN E. DE SOUZA is a screenwriter best known for his work defining the eighties action genre with films such as Die Hard, 48 Hours, Die Hard 2, and Commando.
RICHARD DONNER was a director and producer for film and television. Early success came in television from directing the landmark episode of The Twilight Zone “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” before he transitioned to directing motion pictures with such classics as The Omen, Superman, The Goonies, Ladyhawke, and all four Lethal Weapon movies. His later years would be spent producing features along with his wife, Lauren, before his death in 2021.
JONATHAN EUSEBIO is a trainer and stunt coordinator for films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, DCEU, and other genre franchises. He was the fight coordinator for John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2 and stunt coordinator for John Wick: Chapter 3.
LAURENCE FISHBURNE is an actor best known for such films and television as Apocalypse Now, Deep Cover, The Matrix, Mystic River, Hannibal, and Black-ish. He portrays the “Bowery King” in the John Wick films.
LISA FUNNELL is a professor, award-winning author, and leading expert on gender, feminism, and geopolitics in James Bond and other action films. She is currently working as an associate professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of Oklahoma.
MIKE HOSTENCH is an expert on Hong Kong cinema and has been the deputy director of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia since 1992.
PETER HUNT was a fixture in the British film scene during the 1940s and ’50s, before securing a regular role as an editor for the James Bond franchise, notably on Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger, and then becoming a director on the series with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
BASIL IWANYK is a film producer of the John Wick franchise. His early work as an executive at Warner Bros. led to producing such films as the remake of Clash of the Titans and The Town, before starting his own production company, Thunder Road Films, in 2011, whose films also include The Expendables, Sicario, Greenland, and Brooklyn’s Finest.
ANTONY JOHNSTON is a British writer of comic books, video games, and novels, which include his graphic novel The Coldest City, adapted as Atomic Blonde for actress Charlize Theron.
DEREK KOLSTAD is a screenwriter for the John Wick films, as well as the action film Nobody, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and the upcoming TV adaptation of the video game series Splinter Cell.
DAN LAUSTSEN is an Oscar-nominated cinematographer for such films as the Academy Award–winning The Shape of Water and Crimson Peak, and was the director of photography for John Wick: Chapter 2, Chapter 3, and Chapter 4.
J. F. LAWTON is a screenwriter for the Steven Seagal action film Under Siege and the Keanu Reeves sci-fi/action film Chain Reaction.
DAVID LEITCH began in Hollywood as a stunt performer for such films as Fight Club and the Matrix sequels, before becoming the codirector of John Wick along with fellow former stunt performer Chad Stahelski. After John Wick, he quickly became a Hollywood A-list director with solo directing efforts on Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, and Sony’s Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt.
RICHARD MAIBAUM was an American playwright and screenwriter in the United States best known for his screenplays for the James Bond franchise from 1962 to 1989.
TOM MANKIEWICZ was an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures and television whose credits included numerous entries in the James Bond franchise and uncredited work on the Richard Donner Superman films, as well as creator of TV’s Hart to Hart.
JOHN McTIERNAN is a film director best known for his work in the eighties action genre with films like Die Hard, The Last Action Hero, The Hunt for Red October, and the first Predator movie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
RIC MEYERS is an author and teacher, best known for his work in the martial arts genre and for work adapting film and television series like Dirty Harry and The Incredible Hulk to novel form. He is the author of Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Book and its corresponding documentary, Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie.
HEIDI MONEYMAKER is a stunt performer and coordinator known for her work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and John Wick: Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.
RAY MORTON is an author, journalist, film historian, and senior writer for Script magazine.
PHIL NOBILE JR. is a journalist, former columnist for Birth.Movies.Death., and current editor in chief for the new Fangoria magazine.
HARVEY O’BRIEN is a lecturer in film studies at University College Dublin. He has published on such topics as Irish studies, history and the media, horror, science fiction, and documentary films, and is the author of Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back.
GLEN OLIVER is a journalist, film historian, and pop culture commentator. He spent five years as a senior editor for IGN and nine years as an editor for Ain’t It Cool News.
ADRIANNE PALICKI is an actress best known for her breakout role in the landmark series Friday Night Lights, as well as ABC’s Agents of Shield. She appeared as Ms. Perkins in the first John Wick film.
J. J. PERRY is a stunt performer and martial artist known for his work in the Avatar, Fast & Furious, and Star Trek film series and served as a stunt performer on John Wick and supervising stunt coordinator on John Wick: Chapter 2.
KEANU REEVES is a motion picture actor, best known for his roles in Dangerous Liaisons, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Speed, The Matrix, and for his role of John Wick in the John Wick franchise.
ELÍSABET RONALDSDÓTTIR is an Icelandic film editor, known for her work in John Wick, Deadpool 2, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Atomic Blonde.
STEVEN JAY RUBIN is the author of nine books, including The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia, Combat Films: American Realism, Secrets of the Great Science Fiction Films, and The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia.
EVAN SCHIFF is a film editor known for John Wick: Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 and Birds of Prey.
JONATHAN SELA is a cinematographer known for his work on John Wick, Atomic Blonde, and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
BOB SIMMONS was a stunt arranger/stunt double for numerous films in the James Bond franchise from 1962 to 1985.
STANLEY SOPEL was a British film producer for many of the early James Bond films, beginning with Dr. No in 1962 and ending with Diamonds Are Forever in 1971.
JACKSON SPIDELL is a stunt performer and fight choreographer known for his work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Hunger Games film series. He served as a stunt double for Keanu Reeves in the John Wick franchise.
CHAD STAHELSKI started in film as a stunt performer, serving as Keanu Reeves’s stunt double in the Matrix films. After twenty-five years, he and David Leitch made the leap to directing with the first John Wick film. Stahelski stayed with the John Wick franchise, directing Chapter 2, Chapter 3, and Chapter 4, and is currently slated to direct a reboot of Highlander and the adaptation of the hit video game Ghost of Tsushima.
JAMES STRATTON is an educator, film scholar, and the author of Hitchcock’s North by Northwest: The Man Who Had Too Much, A Star Is Born & Born Again: Variations on a Hollywood Archetype, and 100 Guilty Pleasure Movies.
LARRY TAYLOR is the author of John McTiernan: The Rise and Fall of an Action Movie Icon and Tony Scott: A Filmmaker on Fire.
CHARLIZE THERON is an actor and producer, known for her roles in Mad Max: Fury Road, the Fast & Furious franchise, The Old Guard, and as Lorraine in Atomic Blonde. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2003 for the Patty Jenkins film Monster.
RODERICK THORP was the bestselling author of The Detective, which was made into a film starring Frank Sinatra, and Nothing Lasts Forever, which served as the basis of Die Hard. Thorp worked as a private detective for nine years and did extensive crime reporting, including a twenty-one-part series on cocaine traffic in Southern California, which was published in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
AUSTIN TRUNICK is a Connecticut-based author and film historian. He serves as the cinema editor for the nationally distributed magazine Under the Radar and is the author of The Cannon Film Guide: Volume I, 1980–1984.
BRUCE WILLIS is an actor whose breakthrough role in the television series Moonlighting led to him being cast as John McClane in the first Die Hard film, catapulting him to megastardom. He is also known for roles in Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense, and Sin City.
TERENCE YOUNG was a British film director for numerous entries in the early James Bond franchise, including Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Thunderball.