'John Wick: Chapter 4' is filled with fight scenes and guns, but none of the shots you hear in the film are real.
Created by famed stuntman and director Chad Stahelski, the latest film has been praised by action fans for its"buffet of bullet casings" and"masterful" dedication to the"action movie art form."
"Chad is a proponent of never using real guns on the set," said Mark Stoeckinger, supervising sound editor."So you'll never hear a gun sound from the set into the final mix because it doesn't sound anything like a gun, and it's something that's dramatically not interesting." Working on"John Wick: Chapter Four," Stoeckinger and effects re-recording mixer Casey Genton said there's a precision to crafting the gun shots — combining multiple layers of sound and fine tuning them to take into account location and impact.
"There's the gunshots, and then there's also what the guns hit," Stoeckinger said."Those shots always hit something. Even if it's not a big, noticeable sound, you would notice its absence."