{"id":806505,"date":"2026-07-16T21:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806505\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:52:12","slug":"john-wick-producer-sued-over-alleged-donnie-yen-michelle-yeoh-double-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806505\/","title":{"rendered":"‘John Wick’ Producer Sued Over Alleged Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh Double Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘John Wick’ Producer Sued
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Donnie Yen<\/a> and Michelle Yeoh<\/a> are at the center of an alleged Hollywood double-cross … with a veteran producer claiming the company behind ‘John Wick’ hijacked his stars and cut him out of the action.<\/p>\n

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Arthur Sarkissian is suing Basil Iwanyk and Basil’s company, Thunder Road Films … claiming they torpedoed a movie he spent years and a bunch of money developing.<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Arthur says he first teamed with Thunder Road on “The Father<\/a>” and paid to rewrite the script for Yen … but instead of producing the movie, he claims Thunder Road dangled a bigger paycheck in front of Yen for “John Wick: Chapter 4” … killing Arthur’s project in the process.<\/p>\n

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He says the film then got a second life as “The Mother<\/a>,” with Yeoh attached and international presales allegedly reaching as high as $18 million. Arthur claims he was promised an $850K producer fee and even brought his handpicked director aboard.<\/p>\n

But the project allegedly hit another wall when Yeoh decided she didn\u2019t want to play a mother of two — moving the role to Jennifer Lopez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Arthur claims Thunder Road told him they were working to save the film … while secretly shopping around Hollywood for a replacement script.<\/p>\n

The suit says the search led to “The Surgeon,” another Yeoh action flick — only this time, Arthur says his promised payday was nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

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He’s suing Thunder Road and Iwanyk for breach of contract, profiting off his work without paying him, and making promises they didn’t keep \u2026 seeking at least the $850K, plus development costs, lost profits, and punitive damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘John Wick’ Producer Sued You Double-Crossed Me With Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh Published July 16, 2026 1:00 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,29389,4207,29390],"class_list":["post-806505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-kim-k","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-kk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}