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John Wick ’s dogs have become a Brobdingnagian part of the franchise and one of the fan - favorite elements of the movies . Dogs have been so centrical to theJohn Wickfilms that they ’ve act as motivation for Wick ’s revenge , helped him in his recovery , and aid John in scrap . The firstJohn Wickmovie was all about his dog , as the bad guys killed the whelp ( Daisy ) that was sent to him by his at peace married woman . This kicked off John ’s violent itinerary , but there were more dogs to come in the future motion-picture show .
John got another dog , a pit bull , in theJohn Wickending , and he has been his in effect boy and familiar ever since . John Wick : Chapter 3 - Parabellumintroduces fighting dogs , andJohn Wick : Chapter 4’sdog brings the franchise full circle . The dogs have make for almost as grown a role as any homo and are more trustworthy than most . With that in mind , it ’s no surprise that there are many frankfurter - related facts pertaining to the action serial , and there ’s more to the John Wick dogs than the movies bring out .
12The Beagle’s Acting Debut
Andy Was Purchased From A Breeder Purely For The Film
Andy postulate some prison term off , spending it on the Animal Actors International farm in New Jersey .
Daisy , theJohn Wickdog whose destruction inspired the line " Yeah , I ’m think I ’m back , " was dally by an animal actor name Andy . It was in reality his first character , at eight months old , purchased from a breeder specifically for the photographic film . fit in to Animal Actors International flight simulator Kim Krafsky , a beagle was picked because"There ’s this thing about them , they ’re just cute"(viaNew York Post ) . Andy took to the press lap with the rest of the cast .
Though a comparatively brief role in the first John Wick motion-picture show , Andy is the most significant of the dogs in the dealership as the puppy ’s death recoil off the whole story . Krafsky described Andy ’s " rock ‘n’ roll star " quality for acquire the dog the part over the other candidates . He also noted thatKeanu Reeves and Andy hit it off quicklywhich helped to establish the necessary bail . fortunately , Andy got a better ending than Daisy as Krasky revealed ( viaBusiness Insider ):
" A friend of mine took him to live in their menage , and his name was changed to Wick by their kids , "
11John Wick’s Dog Almost Survived
Daisy Living Would’ve Changed The Whole Story
The death of the hound Daisy in the first John Wick movie is a painful moment . Not only is it always heavy to see a defenseless animal obliterate in a picture , but the personal story behind John find Daisy , a final gift from his late married woman to convince him to live a happy life , makes it all the more heartrending . However , John Wickdirector Chad Stahelski revealedthat they almost did n’t go through with the andiron ’s death . The film director explain :
" We were risking credit cards , a house mortgage , everything . [ Producer ] Basil Iwanyk put his company up . And then you have that day where you realise we ’re doing all this and we ’re killing a puppy ? I thought we would never come back from it . "
generate the grade of winner theJohn Wickmovies have reached , it is interesting to look back at how much of the danger everyone was taking with the first movie . While it is hard to kill a dog in a moving picture and not turn off the full audience , Stahelski made the right alternative in sticking with the domestic dog ’s dying . Anything else would have felt like a cop - out and rob John Wick ’s wild journey of so much of its wallop .
10The Pit Bulls Were Played By Two Dogs
Burton And Cha Cha
Unfortunately , Daisy dies in the first 10 minutes ofJohn Wick , but in the film ’s last scenes , John sweep up a stone pit bull to save it from being put down . Despite the filmmakers being unforced to kill off the pup in the first movie , they do n’t labor their fate with Bubba and ensure that he is safe for the remainder of the franchise , even if John ’s own life only gets more and more vehement .
This John Wick hound has been played by two different animals in bothJohn taper : Chapter 2andJohn Wick : Chapter 3 - Parabellum . Chapter 2saw the part played by Burton(who Keanu took to call Bubba),and then Cha Cha inParabellum(viaPup Help ) . John ’s 2d sidekick has yet to be given a name , likely because the assassin does n’t want to get too attached . Not evenJohn Wick : Chapter 4revealed theJohn Wickdog ’s name .
9Dogs Fought Horses During John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum’s Production
Cha Cha Came Out Unharmed
A common saying in Hollywood goes " " Never work with children or brute , " understand that they will steal every tantrum they ’re in , and often make shot said scenes more difficult . This was definitely the case while filming the thirdJohn Wickmoviein New York . The fauna actorCha Cha , the 2d dog who played Wick ’s pit bull , picked a fight with a horse . Luckily Cha Cha came out of the altercation unharmed . Visual effects supervisory program Rob Nederhorst shared the story of the confrontation on his Instagram page .
“ commonly I would n’t station # johnwick3 # shake off image but dammit I ’m get an exclusion . This is cha cha . She ’s Johns # dog . She ’s awfully favorable . I got a big clinch from her just after this . :) . ”
It was probably triggered by the onset of topsy-turvyness due to the stress of shooting in such a loud and high - pressure environs , specially as even the cavalry were involve in the action sequences . While moments like this can highlight the struggles and possible issues with having fauna on movie solidification , it is also a monitor that these performing artist are still animals who sometimes embrace their animal instincts .
8Five Dogs Played The Malinois Shepherds
Santana, Tai, Sam 7, Boyca, And Ikar
InJohn Wick : Chapter 3 - Parabellum , John Wick send for in a favorfrom the director of the Casablanca ramification of the Continental Hotel , Sofia Al - Awar ( Halle Berry ) . it is cleared from their first meeting that John and Sofia have a complex history and one that she is not too happy about . Despite the difference that exist between them , they are more alike than she may be willing to admit , including their love life of dogs .
The character incessantly has two Belgian Malinois Shepherds by her side , but these dogs were n’t played by only two weenie . They were in fact play by five separate stunt dogs so that different fauna actors could be used for different stunts , and so that no individual click became too distressed or weary . TheJohn Wickdogs were advert ; Santana , Tai , Sam 7 , Boyca , and Ikar , and each had a limited human relationship with their on and off - screen handler , Halle Berry ( viaThe Ringer ) .
Despite being confirmed , John Wick : Chapter 5 is one of the most mysterious - and uncertain - forthcoming movies , as the John Wick 5 word so far shows .
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7Halle Berry Didn’t Need A Dog Trainer In John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Halle Berry Bonded With Her On-Screen Pups
Despite the fact that frump are such a big part oftheJohn Wickfranchise , it is not until the third movie in the serial that any dogs really get in on the activity . They might not be John Wick ’s dogs , but Sofia ’s Belgian Shepherds slip the show inJohn Wick : Chapter 3 - Parabellum . They pull up off impressive stunts during the Casablanca gunfight , but there was n’t an creature animal trainer just off - television camera or concealing in the scene . The Belgian Shepherds were basically Halle Berry ’s dogs .
" I would pass four days a workweek out there with the dog — two , three hours a sidereal day — and I would just go through the drills with them , just like the trainer . As the flight simulator were learning who they were , I was learn who they were . "
6There Were Cats On Set Of John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Stray Cats Made It Difficult For The Dogs To Behave
TheJohn Wickfilming locations declare oneself another way of elevating the military action franchise with some arresting locales including in the movies . Of course , each take location arrive with its own challenge and that includes when it come to the hound used in the motion picture . During the filming of their big activeness coiffure small-arm inJohn Wick : Chapter 3 - Parabellum , Halle Berry and the filmmakers only really had one problem maintain the dog well - conduct .
The setting was film in the North African land Morroco , an area in which stray cat roam in large number and like little for Hollywood film set . Berry mouth highly of the training and respect of these animals , but just as with the streak - in with the cavalry , these are creature at the end of the twenty-four hours . According toJohn Wick 3’sHalle Chuck Berry :
" There ’s cats everywhere and when my dogs get wind cats they conk ballistic . We ’d be in the middle of a view and all of the sudden , a guy would come in stroll by and off goes the domestic dog . Because at the end of the day they ’re animals and nature say , you know , go get that bozo . "
5No CGI Dogs Are In John Wick
The Dogs Did Their Own Stunts
pragmatic stunt work is a big part of theJohn Wickfranchise with the vast majority of what ’s see reach by actors and stuntmen . There are manyaction sequences in theJohn Wickmoviesthat seem like they would be inconceivable to pull out off practically , yet the movie institutionalise to make these moment as real as potential . This extends to theJohn Wick dogs as well .
In a podcast , music director Chad Stahelski weighed in on the dogs , insisting that they were all substantial in the picture show , include in the action succession . The dog attack view inJohn Wick 3is a peculiarly stunning sequence when considering that all of the dogs are actual in that moment . However , Stahelski also admits that there are a lot of challenges that come with admit animals in such sequencesand he admits that he does n’t see the distinction between a frank acting and a dog acting like an animal ( viaReelBlend ):
" There ’s no such affair as a motion-picture show dog . It ’s just a dog doing his affair on solidifying . When a blackguard attacks , it ’s actually trying to injure a person . "
4The Wall Climb Really Happened
Halle Berry’s Dogs Had The Film’s Best Stunts
Keanu Reeves is truly praise for the stunt employment that he pull off in the John Wick pic , but there are some incredible stunts in the movies that do n’t need the star at all . InJohn Wick : Chapter 3 - Parabellum , there is a stunt where one of Sofia ’s frankfurter leap from her back and climbs up a 2d - story balcony . There was no CGI call for . The plastic film ’s visual effects supervisory program , Rob Nederhorst , point out on Twitter that all domestic dog - come to stunts were real , including the wall climb ( viaThe Slate ):
" The click climbed up that wall . Our action squad was incredible and I am honored to have worked with them . "
It ’s actually well within the realms of realism for a weenie to clear a 5 - substructure jump with a operative start or to scramble up a 15 - substructure wall , and that ’s without the supply benefit of a Halle Berry leg - up . While these movies hug outrageous activity , theJohn Wick 3dog military action sceneshave been praised by expert for how accurately they depict dogs in armed combat scenarios , including the scaling of the wall :
“ Scaling the bulwark to bite the subject area is very realistic . In the military it would n’t be so realistic only because if we had a menace up high we would just neutralize that threat . But if we wanted to get a dog up high that is a possibleness . "
3The Beagle Needed Bacon To Hit His Mark
Andy Was Motivated By Breakfast Meat
Andy , the animate being actor who act the firstJohn Wickdog , Daisy , was only eight month old when he take on the polar persona in the 2014 moving picture . In that respect , it ’s not surprising that he was n’t the most well - trained of animal player . Though the dog formed a bond paper with Keanu Reeves before take began , even some of the intimate vista between Daisy and John required a little spare motivation for the newcomer canine actor .
In the opening scenes of the film , Andy is testify palling around the theater with Keanu Reeves , but he often misses his Saint Mark . In fact , the only way to lure Andy into jumping onto John ’s bed and licking his face was to spread Baron Verulam soil on the actor ’s cheeks ( viaPup Help ) . Despite it not being authentic affectionateness , Andy ’s appetence sell the moment well within the movie .
