Keanu Reeves was every inch the action star as he arrived at an event for his upcoming John Wick documentary Wick Is Pain.

The movie pulls back the curtain on the rollercoaster behind-the-scenes process of bringing the original movie to the screen in 2014.

After clearing a string of dizzying hurdles – including running out of money a day before production started and being saved by a $6 million investment by Eva Longoria – the film blossomed into a billion-dollar franchise.

Wick Is Pain premiered at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles this Thursday, and Keanu, 60, was seen rolling up to the event in style.

He was glimpsed showing up on a motorcycle, from his very own company Arch that he launched in 2011.

The star was wearing an Alpinestars jacket and a scarlet scarf that popped against his otherwise black ensemble.

After its screening in Los Angeles this Thursday, the documentary will be released on Friday on video-on-demand and digital platforms. 

Keanu Reeves was every inch the action star as he arrived at an event for his upcoming John Wick documentary Wick Is Pain

On the personal front, Keanu is still happily involved with visual artist Alexandra Grant, 52, whom he was seen out to lunch with last month. 

Alexandra and Keanu first became acquainted at a dinner party in 2009 and collaborated on two art books together before going red carpet official in 2019.

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However in the intervening years they have tended to guard their privacy and rarely discussed details of their relationship in public.

Alexandra found herself at the business end of an internet frenzy when she went red carpet official with Keanu at the LACMA Art + Film Gala in early November 2019.

‘I think every single person I knew called me in the first week of November, and that’s fascinating,’ she told British Vogue a few months later.

When she was asked in 2020 about the prospect of marriage, she said: ‘Love at every level is deeply important to my idenтιтy. How’s that for dodging the question?’

She added: ‘I do not believe that isolation is the way. There is a period of isolation that I do as a painter, but I deeply value the experience of being in relationships.’ 

By the time they went red carpet official, they had been friends for around a decade and it had been reported that Keanu wanted the romance out in the open. 

The movie pulls back the curtain on the rollercoaster behind-the-scenes process of bringing the original movie to the screen in 2014

Wick Is Pain premiered at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles this Thursday, and Keanu, 60, was seen rolling up to the event in style

He was glimpsed showing up on a motorcycle, wearing an Alpinestars jacket and a scarlet scarf that popped against his otherwise black ensemble

On the personal front, Keanu is still happily involved with visual artist Alexandra Grant, 52, whom he was seen out to lunch with last month; pictured this past December 

They first collaborated in 2011 on Keanu’s book Ode To Happiness, which she illustrated. The project marked her first book as an artist and his first as a writer.

They worked together again on the actor’s 2016 book Shadows, to which Alexandra once again contributed the artwork. 

She is his first known girlfriend since Jennifer Syme, who died in a car accident in 2001 less than four months after delivering her and Keanu’s stillborn baby.

In 2010 a pH๏τograph surfaced of the Matrix star sitting glumly on a park bench, resulting in the wildly viral ‘Sad Keanu’ meme. 

When the meme took off there was much speculation that his expression was connected to the shattering losses he had undergone in the past decade.

However in a 2021 interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Keanu dished that he actually looked forlorn in the picture because he was feeling peckish.

‘Man, I’m eating a sandwich!’ the movie star said of the picture. ‘I was thinking. I had some stuff going on. I was hungry.’