Actress Eva Longoria rescued the manufacturing of famed film franchise John Wick when it was getting ready to shutting down for good.
In the course of taking pictures for John Wick, the primary film within the collection that stars Keanu Reeves, the manufacturing ran out of cash. Up stepped Longoria with $6 million in funding. In trade she acquired a assure that she’d be among the many first buyers to receives a commission again, in accordance to Enterprise Insider.
The story, as informed by the film’s administrators Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, was that as they have been wrapping manufacturing they discovered there was a $6 million shortfall within the finances. At this level their producer Basil Iwanyk started scrambling to search out somebody—anybody—who might plug their monetary gap simply till the film was completed. CAA, the powerhouse expertise company that was placing collectively the financing, reached out to a few of its A-list purchasers. The deal finally made its technique to Longoria.
“She came to the rescue and she provided the gap financing,” Stahelski informed Enterprise Insider.
On the time, the film was 24 hours away from shuttering utterly, in accordance with Stahelski. Iwanyk “had maxed his three credit cards,” each administrators and Reeves had already “put in everything” to finance the film earlier than the eleventh hour funding from Longoria.
The funding virtually definitely paid off handsomely for Longoria. Whereas the precise particulars of her deal aren’t identified, John Wick grossed $87 million on the international field workplace. All the franchise— which started with the story of Reeves as a retired hitman who avenges the brutal homicide of his canine—consists of the three sequels to the unique and has introduced in over $1 billion worldwide.
“During the award season last year, I ran into her on two different occasions at Academy events, and we were reminiscing,” Lietch informed BI. “She was like, ‘Wow, that was the best money I’ve ever spent.’ It paid back significantly for her.”
Lietch and Stahelski didn’t discover out till after they completed filming that their thriller financier/savior was Longoria. “Basil took us out to dinner,” Stahelski mentioned, “and we have been laughing about all of the bulls–t that occurred, and he mentioned, ‘By the way, funny story, you know who gap financed you? Eva Longoria.’ We have been like, ‘What!’
