With its new opponents, John Wick: Chapter 4 might buck a long-standing series pattern. In John Wick: Chapter 4, Keanu Reeves’ assassin will experience his most difficult conflict to yet. John could at long last be able to free himself from the High Table’s control if he teams up with the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne).
The Marquis de Gramont (Bill Skarsgrd), who will engage John in combat as a representative of the High Table, is one of John’s adversaries in John Wick: Chapter 4. The Marquis de Gramont’s goal of killing John Wick, according to Bill Skarsgrd in an interview, “would ensure his place and power at the High Table.” The fact that Skarsgrd refers to the Marquis de Gramont as “someone from the gutter that now savours the sparkly outfits he’s wearing” could suggest that he is a villain with motivations that are very different from those of prior John Wick foes.
The John Wick series is characterised by the level of respect that John Wick commands because of his well-deserved reputation as an assassin. Both Viggo (Michael Nyqvist) and Abram Tarasov (Peter Stomare) underline John Wick’s reputation as the Baba Yaga to anyone who misunderstands him in the first two John Wick films. All of John’s adversaries throughout the series agree with that statement, despite the fact that they are actively attempting to kill him.
Even further, Zero (Mark Dacascos) and his Shinobi disciples explicitly declare that they are admirers of John in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, which they do while they are engaged in combat. There has never truly been a John Wick villain who views him as an enemy in the more conventional sense because John is so much regarded by his foes. One strategy John Wick: Chapter 4 may use to keep the series fresh is to vary up the villain formula.
According to Skarsgrd’s portrayal of the Marquis de Gramont, he appears to view John as little more than a tool for acquiring power. The Marquis de Gramont is John Wick’s antagonist as a result of his conflict with the High Table, but he also appears to oppose John on a more personal level. As a result, the Marquis de Gramont might be the first to lose all respect for John Wick because he sees it as a flaw that led to the defeat of John’s former adversaries.
The Marquis de Gramont might harbour true resentment and even contempt for John because of his rags-to-riches origin narrative. The Marquis de Gramont could believe that John Wick is the only one who can deprive him of everything now that he has attained the High Table rank that he does. That would not only distinguish the Marquis de Gramont as a distinct character in John Wick: Chapter 4, but also make him probably John Wick’s most combative and quietly desperate opponent ever.