Fine, yes, we'd watch a Star Wars movie from John Wick's Chad Stahelski

At the risk of getting absolutely pilloried for Bad Opinions On The Internet—a capital offense in the world of social media—we’d like to venture a position: The films are not, by and large, exceptionally good action movies. Yes, there are exceptions! Fun dog fights, well choreographed lightsaber duels, eye catching battle sequences like the Hoth fight in .

There are good action in the canon, undeniably. But the franchise’s strengths typically run more to world building, character, and spectacle than sheer action acumen. Which is why we’re absolutely fascinated to hear director Chad Stahelski, one of the best action directors working at the moment, basically dare Disney to let him make a movie of his very own one of these days This was part of a conversation with ’s Josh Horowitz, occurring while the pair were doing a patron aimed commentary filled Watch A Long of Stahelski’s , large excerpts of which have now gone up on Youtube.

(It’s an absolute blast to listen to, by the way, full of interesting tidbits—as when Stahelski talks about trying to cast Jackie Chan in the part that eventually went to Donnie Yen in , or revealing that star Keanu Reeves buys T shirts for the films’ stunt performers celebrating how many times he’s killed them across the franchise.) But there’s also a long chunk focused on the fact that Stahelski has never ventured, as a director, into other people’s IP, and what it might take to get him there, culminating in a moment where he half jokes, “Disney, if you’re listening, hit me in a couple of years, and I have a couple of takes for .” As Stahelski and Horowitz both note, it would make for a potentially contentious pairing: Part of the reason the movies don’t look like anything else in theaters is because Stahelski maintains an unusually heavy amount of control over almost every aspect of filming, with the studio largely giving him and his crew free reign to unleash cinematic chaos, provided they can keep budgets low and box office high.

Disney, meanwhile, has been notoriously iffy about letting directors get individualistic with its space based cash cow, especially in films, so it’s not hard to imagine the independent minded Stahelski running into conflict with the corporate machine. (That being said, it’s also not hard to imagine the end result kicking absolute ass; no modern action director is as focused on mixing inventiveness and clarity in his fight sequences, and combat could generally benefit from both.) (It would also involve Disney actually Star Wars , which the company has gotten weirdly reticent to do over the last four years.) Interestingly, along with the hypotheticals, Stahelski did get a bit more concrete—noting that he had, at the very least, had some conversations with Marvel about its .

Speaking warmly of Kevin Feige, Stahelski made it clear that those initial conversations didn’t work out, but also that he’d still love to take another stab at the character down the line, once he’s (someday) done with for good, and has finished his commitments to his . [ ].