Len Wiseman's 2025 actioner "Ballerina," which was marketed as "From the World of John Wick: Ballerina," stars Ana de Armas as Eve Maccro, a super-capable assassin raised in a bizarre and ultra-violent assassins school. Because "Ballerina" takes place in the same continuity as the "John Wick" movies, its mythology is achingly complex and semi-incomprehensible. The "John Wick" films are set in a world where seemingly a quarter of the Earth's population belongs to one assassin's guild or another, all of which are constantly at war. It also operates by a byzantine system of chits, favors, and blood libels, with entire industries having sprung up to provide assassins with clothing, weapons, education, and lodgings.

The four "John Wick" movies that preceded "Ballerina" — all of them directed b

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