Keanu Reeves said he doesn’t know exactly where the idea came from, but one day — sometime around the release of “John Wick: Chapter 2,” starring Keanu Reeves, and before he started shooting “The Matrix Resurrections,” also starring Keanu Reeves — he imagined an 80,000-year-old warrior, who couldn’t die and can rip people’s arms off but struggles with loneliness. “It became a series of what ifs,” he said.
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Keanu Reeves said he doesn’t know exactly where the idea came from, but one day — sometime around the release of “John Wick: Chapter 2,” starring Keanu Reeves, and before he started shooting “The Matrix Resurrections,” also starring Keanu Reeves — he imagined an 80,000-year-old warrior, who couldn’t die and can rip people’s arms off but struggles with loneliness. “It became a series of what ifs,” he said.
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Is it weird because Keanu wrote part of it, or because Miéville wrote part of it? I’d suspect the latter.