John Wick was a hit earlier this year, grossing nearly $80 million at the box office and an additional $40 million or so from home video sales, all on a budget of only $20 million. Much to the delight of fans, a sequel is now in the works, and star Keanu Reeves has weighed in on what we should expect from the movie which is set to be directed by Chad Stahelski.

Asked about how they’re going about approaching the sequel, he explained: “I think we have a really good premise, and it’s an organic premise. It’s basically — to me there’s John Wick and then there’s John. You know, John is the married guy whose wife just died, and that five years of his life. Then there’s John Wick, who’s the mythical assassin. In this, John Wick’s past comes and infiltrates John’s life and John Wick, in a way, has to fight for John.”

Thankfully, it doesn’t sound as if John heading back into action will have anything to do with an adorable puppy dying again! “‘Why tell the story? Why do we need to do this again? How do we do that without doing another dog?’ So we speak about John Wick, the next chapter, and what is that emotional hook? What is that? So I think we have a good idea of that.”

“[We] had to come up with a reason why, and we came up with a reason that was good enough, that didn’t suck, and we’re just trying to make it better and better,” the actor continued when asked about the possibility of even more John Wick movies following the sequel if it’s another success. “In terms of a franchise, I don’t know, until you do it and it’s done, you don’t know, because it’s not source material, this is original goodness.”

It’s going to be exciting to see how John Wick 2 develops, especially with only one of the first movie’s directors at the helm. Just seeing the character once again kicking ass and taking names has a lot of promise though, so stay tuned to HeyUGuys for more on the sequel…