John Wick is great, but given the directions that Chad Stahelski and David Leitch's careers have gone in separately after that movie, I think I'm most comfortable putting a lot of the success of that film on Stahelski rather than Leitch. I'm not a Leitch guy at all; his new one, The Fall Guy, sounds like something that on paper I'd love all the individual parts of, but every time I see that trailer play before a movie at the theater I just find it to be insufferable.
Also, can't help but to be turned off by the super quick turnaround with the July 2025 release date here, too. Those poor VFX artists. And Leitch isn't even 100% on board yet, so either the VFX team hasn't started working yet and it's going to be a ton of crunch for them, or they have started working without a director properly in place, and that means this is going to go the Marvel route of a director jumping in and having a bunch of pre-viz stuff already done for him but overseen by someone else that he has no control over and has to work around/incorporate. Both are... not great options!
I was a bit optimistic about this when Koepp was announced as the writer, and who knows, maybe it might wind up being something good, but this latest bit of news has that excitement waning. I'll go in with an open mind and maybe I'll be surprised, but for now the hype just isn't there.
