This article contains spoilers for Ballerina.

It’s not quite time for Norman Reedus to bow out of the world of John Wick — that is, if Ballerina director Len Wiseman gets his way.

The Walking Dead star Reedus made his John Wick debut in the spinoff movie Ballerina as Daniel Pine, an assassin who would do anything to protect his young daughter Ella (Ava Joyce McCarthy) from becoming a killer herself. Daniel is only in two scenes in the movie — one at the beginning where he works with Eve (Ana de Armas) to try to keep Ella away from the Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne), and another at the very end when he’s reunited with his daughter while he heals from his injuries — but the director has an idea in mind that would bring the character back for a sequel.

“I cast Norman Reedus because I have plans for him,” Wiseman tells Entertainment Weekly. “And I would love to see him come back in a way that he’s now kind of indebted to her.”

Eve’s revenge mission ultimately leads her to save young Ella from the Chancellor’s plans to groom her into one of his assassins. She brings Ella back to Daniel for an emotional father-daughter reunion, and Wiseman hopes to continue to explore that relationship in another movie.

“I have a little bit of a plan for that,” the filmmaker says. “And then also how he’s connected, and what his family connection is [to the Chancellor’s cult].”

The director also has another idea for a sequel that would focus more on Eve now that she has discovered the truth about her origins: just like Ella, she was also stolen away from the Chancellor’s cult of assassins as a child. While her long-lost older sister Lena (Catalina Sandino Moreno) died during her fight with Eve, the filmmaker has plans to mine even more trauma for the young assassin with another family member.

“At one point I had [in the script] that she meets her mother, and we never got there,” Wiseman says. “We were maybe going to shoot the scene, but that’s always something that we hear, her mother’s dead, but in this world, you never know who’s really dead. There was an element of, when Eve does get the contract on her at the end, we don’t necessarily know for sure who put that contract on her. And if that path led to that, maybe her own mother [put the hit on her]. That would be brutal.”

Wiseman would love to see his “full fantasy wish” come true, meeting Eve’s believed-to-be-dead mother, especially after Eve destroyed her tribe’s town.

“Her mother still will need to return to that village and see it decimated, and her daughter has been killed,” the director says. “So the ramifications can come in many different forms.”

While the filmmaker doesn’t want to “curse” himself with planning too far ahead in the future, he hopes that the Ballerina (pointe-shoe-wearing) leg of the John Wick franchise is only just beginning.

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“I am hoping that everybody loves this character,” Wiseman says of de Armas’ titular killer. “I really just focus on the one movie at a time, but it would be great. I would love it if it were to continue. But I don’t think she replaces [Keanu Reeves’] John as a franchise lead. I think she’s a new character in the world to follow.”

Wiseman laughs as he adds, “I don’t think anybody replaces John Wick. I just don’t think it’s possible.”

Ballerina is now playing in theaters.

This article contains spoilers for Ballerina.

Eve’s (Ana de Armas) fight has only just begun by the end of Ballerina.

The John Wick spinoff movie introduces a new ruthless assassin on a quest for vengeance, and director Len Wiseman tells Entertainment Weekly that there’s so much more yet to come with Eve’s story after this movie. And despite Keanu Reeves’ titular killer advising her multiple times to walk away from this life, she continues to dive deeper into the world of contract killings even after she finally gets her revenge.

“She’s checked herself into the Continental, and her next move is really sorting out how her whole life has been a lie,” Wiseman tells EW of where Eve goes from here. “She now understands what her father was really doing for her, understands where she came from, and decided, ‘I’ve made a choice. I’ve got the answers that I needed, but there are consequences in this world.'”

If Ballerina gets a sequel to continue exploring that open-ended conclusion, the director says it will need to unpack the fallout from Eve’s choices. “She has to now deal with the consequences that John Wick laid out to her, that Winston [Ian McShane] laid out to her,” Wiseman says. “It is a brutal world. You don’t walk off into the sunset very easily. And so now Eve’s next move is how to deal with the consequences of her actions in this [movie].”

Ballerina is essentially Eve’s origin story, beginning with her tragic childhood. When her father (David Castañeda) is killed in front of her, she’s given over to the Ruska Roma for training in both killing and ballet. Twelve years later, she graduates to become a hired gun. Only two months into her new career, she discovers a clue about who really killed her father, motivating her to find and punish the mysterious cult of assassins responsible for his death.

While the Ruska Roma’s Director (Anjelica Huston) tries to dissuade Eve from seeking revenge, she immediately goes rogue, getting intel from New York’s Continental owner Winston that helps her track down the tribe’s leader, the Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne), and his entire town of trained assassins.

While fighting her way through the town, Eve learns she was actually stolen away from this place when she was a child by her father, who wanted her to have a better, less violent life. That’s why the Chancellor had her father killed, to punish him for kidnapping Eve. She also meets her long-lost older sister Lena (Catalina Sandino Moreno) in the town, but she’s killed pretty quickly — no emotional hugs here.

Eventually, the Baba Yaga himself, John Wick, is sent to kill Eve to stop her from causing a war between the Ruska Roma and the Chancellor’s gang of killers, who have had a truce for over 100 years. But John doesn’t follow through on his contract, instead helping Eve kill the Chancellor and save a little girl named Ella (Ava Joyce McCarthy) from a life of murder. Eve helps Ella reunite with her father, Daniel (Norman Reedus), ultimately finding redemption for her own tragic childhood.

It’s not a totally happy ending, though, since Eve discovers at the very end of the movie that a contract has been put out on her for $5 million, forcing her into action once again. Her original mission may have ended, but her troubles are only just beginning.

“The Chancellor relates to her at the ending that this cycle will continue: ‘You kill me, you’ve cut the head of the snake, but the body still lives,'” Wiseman says. “There will be ramifications of that. And she didn’t kill the entire village.”

The filmmaker would love to explore what would happen if Eve’s mother isn’t actually dead, as everyone believes. What if she returns to see her entire home destroyed and Lena dead?

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“If I really were to get my full fantasy of that, her mother would discover that village and see it decimated and her daughter has been killed, so the ramifications can come in many different forms,” Wiseman says. “And also, is John completely off the hook for helping her out at the end? He technically was going by the rules in a sense, but he kind of fudged the rules a little bit. I don’t think anybody gets off kindly in this world.”

The director thought it was a no-brainer that John defied his orders and helped Eve in her mission instead of killing her, especially considering that this movie takes place between John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and John Wick: Chapter 4.

“It comes down to John and what John has gone through in his life and what circumstances he’s been put in at this point,” Wiseman says. “And there’s an understanding of how sometimes this life takes things from you. He was somebody that is having to deal with the consequences of the revenge path that he went on and what he had lost, and so it really is him seeing a bit of himself in her and how personal it is and what has been destroyed about her life. So he feels for her in that moment.”

Ballerina is now playing in theaters.