You can’t keep a guy like John Wick down. As many shady underworld figures have learned to their cost, Baba Yaga simply keeps coming back. Except, John Wick: Chapter 4 seemed to somewhat close the book on Keanu Reeves’ bullet-spraying assassin. In the fourquel’s final reel, Wick seemed to succumb to his injuries in Paris, with audiences shown his tombstone for good measure – though, technically, we didn’t actually see the character die. Now, we know he will indeed be back in the recently-announced Chapter 5. But according to director Chad Stahelski, there’ll be more to Wick’s return than meets the eye.

“The saga of John Wick was pretty wrapped up,” he admits to Empire. “So the only way to do a 5 is to have a new story that involves John Wick. It’s not a continuation, with the High Table. John dealt with his grief. It will be really different,...