One of the most iconic action franchises of the last few years has been officially confirmed to continue with , continuing the story of the legendary assassin, even after his apparent death at the end of John Wick 4.

Lionsgate has confirmed that director Chad Stahelski and star Keanu Reeves are set to return, but very little information has been revealed about the film itself. However, the film's confirmation means .

Even though the John Wick franchise is most well-known for its incredible action scenes, the story that was told over the course of the four movies, and the characters that were built up within that story were another one of the central reasons that the series worked so well.

With the main story of the first four movies over, John Wick 5's story is seemingly going to be something completely different, , which will require taking a step back, and potentially copying one of the most important parts of the first John Wick.

While the idea of a world where hundreds of assassins are running around, killing people and making their own secret society in hotels across the world was always somewhat fantastical, the first John Wick movie did go to lengths to try and ground the film in the real world.

Aside from the story having a very simple central conflict, with John's mission for revenge pitting him against an easy-to-understand Russian Mafia organization, in conjunction with the lives of regular people, which John Wick 5 can learn from.

One of those details was the group that John, or whoever needed them, would call when they needed bodies to be disposed of. There's a lot of killing in this universe, so to allow these groups of assassins to operate with any kind of secrecy, there would need to be a group that could clean up all of their messes, which the first movie showed off.

Another was when a police officer showed up at John's house after a fight due to a noise complaint, who left even after seeing that there was a dead body in the house, , as they are aware of their world and have some sort of understanding.

While realism isn't the be-all-end-all of action movies, , throwing any sense of realism out the window in order to continuously up the ante when it came to the movies' action sequences.

The immediate counterargument is that the cleanup still happens, it just isn't shown, but by the end of the fourth movie, that seems very unlikely, with scenes like the Arc de Triomphe fight in John Wick 4 being impossible for anyone to cover up.

However, it is important to note that the lack of realism wasn't necessarily a bad thing in those movies. , leading to great scenes like the Arc de Triomphe fight, which absolutely worked to the benefit of the movie more than a complete dedication to realism would have.

John Wick 5's director, Chad Stahelski, has said that the next movie is moving away from the High Table story, which was the main focus of the last few films in the franchise, and the next one will focus on an entirely new threat.

With that in mind, bringing the scale of John Wick 5 back down to Earth and telling a similarly grounded story to the first film would help usher in this new era for the franchise, slightly turning back the scope of the series so that .

Even if the movie doesn't entirely return to the kind of story that was told in the original John Wick, it could still take some cues from it, lowering the stakes a little bit, with fewer of the massive, city-spanning action scenes, and making the perfect entry into a new age of the franchise.