Are you ready to step back into The Matrix? Warner Bros. Pictures sure hope so, and they release the first trailer for ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ which reunites original stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in the iconic roles they made famous, Neo and Trinity.
From visionary filmmaker Lana Wachowski, the long-awaited fourth film in the groundbreaking franchise that redefined a genre. Whilst there isn’t really an official synopsis of the film, the new trailer does give us some idea of the set-up for the movie. It seems that Neo is in therapy, having forgotten most of the events of the previous films (some would argue forgetting the third movie is no bad thing…) So this looks to be something of a reset for the franchise, as Neo, reverting to his original name, Thomas Anderson, has to remember who he is.
Thomas/Neo tells his therapist, played by the always wonderful Neil Patrick Harris, he’s been having “dreams that weren’t just dreams”. He also seems to be taking a prescription of blue pills… which, if you remember the first movie, are the things that keep the “residents” of the Matrix from “waking”. He also runs into Trinity at a coffee shop, who seems to feel a connection, but they don’t seem to remember each other.
A bit later, we see Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who appears to be playing a young version of Morpheus, who hands Neo a “red pill”. As you might expect, from that point on, things get much crazier…
Alongside Reeves, Moss, Harris, and Mateen II, the film stars Jessica Henwick (‘Iron Fist,’ ‘Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens’), Jonathan Groff (‘Hamilton,’ ‘Mindhunter’), Priyanka Chopra Jonas (TV’s ‘Quantico,’), Christina Ricci (‘Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story,’ ‘The Lizzie Borden Chronicles’), Telma Hopkins (‘Dead to Me’), Eréndira Ibarra (‘Sense8,’ ‘Ingobernable’), Toby Onwumere (‘Empire’), Max Riemelt (‘Sense8’), Brian J. Smith (‘Sense8,’ ‘Treadstone’), and Jada Pinkett Smith (‘Angel Has Fallen,’ ‘Gotham’).
Lana Wachowski directed from a screenplay by Wachowski & David Mitchell (not that one, he was a writer on ‘Sense8’) & Aleksander Hemon (‘Sense8’), based on characters created by The Wachowskis. The film was produced by Grant Hill, James McTeigue and Lana Wachowski. The executive producers were Garrett Grant, Terry Needham, Michael Salven, Jesse Ehrman and Bruce Berman.
Wachowski’s creative team behind the scenes included ‘Sense8’ collaborators: directors of photography Daniele Massaccesi and John Toll, production designers Hugh Bateup and Peter Walpole, editor Joseph Jett Sally, costume designer Lindsay Pugh, visual effects supervisor Dan Glass, and composers Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer.
‘The Matrix Resurrections’ is set to land in cinemas worldwide from Wednesday, 22nd December 2021. If you’re in the USA, it will also be available HBO Max.
