20 Things You Probably Didn't Know About John Wick
3. John's Backstory Was Never Intended To Be Revealed
It is a shame that most franchise fare in recent years go out of their way to reveal every facet of their characters' lives, robbing them of any mystique and even complexity in some instances. Fortunately, the creative team behind the first John Wick film opted to keep certain parts of the titular assassin's life a mystery.
Chad Stahelski and David Leitch decided that they would not depict John's life before the events of the movie and especially the event that earned him his freedom, the "impossible task" that Viggo Tarasov (Michael Nyqvist) assigned him.
While subsequent entries in the franchise have added a few layers to John's life (most notably his pact with Santino D'Antonio and his time in the Ruska Roma), none have thankfully made any explicit revelations about Wick's life prior to the events of the first film.