The “ John Wick ” franchise has just returned to life with “Ballerina,” starring Ana de Armas as a Ruska Roma dancer who trains as an assassin to avenge the death of her father. But even if the series’ producers hadn’t come up with the genius idea of making a spin-off movie about a killer who puts the brutal pow in plié, the “John Wick” series would still be coming back to life.

At CinemaCon in early April, it was announced that Keanu Reeves would be returning to star in “John Wick 5.” That might have come as a surprise to anyone who saw “John Wick: Chapter 4” and watched as the title character got killed off in what seemed at the time to be the most dead-as-a-doorknob way possible. That movie, which might have been called “John Wick — The Final Wreckoning,” was explicitly designed

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