John Wick’s co-director, David Leitch, says that Bruce Willis was originally cast as the hitman.

“We were first exposed to the script by our manager at the time, Kelly McCormick, who is now my wife and producer,” Leitch explained to The Hollywood Reporter. “She had introduced us to Basil Iwanyk and Peter Lawson at Basil’s company (Thunder Road) to maybe do the second part of that script. So that was the first time we read it, and I think Bruce Willis might have been attached at the time .”