Eva Longoria paid $6 million to save ‘John Wick’. The first movie in Keanu Reeves’ blockbuster action franchise was released a decade ago, and while the series has gone onto to gross $1 billion worldwide over four films, it was nearly a very different story. Director Chad Stahelski told Business Insider: “We were less than a week out and we lost almost $6 million on a gap financing. “We were financing independently to get the bond, but one of the investors couldn’t raise the money in time.” Chad, his co-director David Leitch and Reeves had already poured their own money into ‘John Wick’, and p…