Movies - Matrix Resurrections: Check out the new trailer

By Mulder, 06 december 2021

Matrix Resurrections is an upcoming American science fiction action film produced, co-written and directed by Lana Wachowski. It is the sequel to The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and the fourth installment in the Matrix film series. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Jada Pinkett Smith reprise their roles from the previous films in the series, and they are joined by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Christina Ricci.

In late 2019, a fourth Matrix film was finally announced, with Lana Wachowski returning as director without her sister and Reeves and Moss reprising their roles. Filming began in February 2020 but was interrupted the following month by the COVID-19 pandemic. Wachowski considered the possibility of shelving the project and leaving the film unfinished, but the cast insisted that she finish it. Filming resumed in August 2020, finishing three months later. The film is supposed to be a joint production of Village Roadshow Pictures and Venus Castina Productions. The Matrix Resurrections is scheduled to have its world premiere in San Francisco on Dec. 18, 2021, and its theatrical release by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 22. It will also be released digitally on the commercial-free component of HBO Max in the U.S. for one month from that same date.

Visionary director Lana Wachowski's Matrix Resurrections is the fourth installment in the groundbreaking saga that reinvented the science fiction genre. This new chapter features Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in the iconic roles they made famous: Neo and Trinity. The film also reunites Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (The Aquaman Saga), Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist, Star Wars - The Force Awakens), Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Mindhunter), Neil Patrick Harris (Gone Girl), Priyanka Chopra Jonas (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 (The Fall of the President, Gotîham).

Lana Wachowski directed the film from a script she co-wrote with David Mitchell & Aleksander Hemon, based on characters imagined by the Wachowski sisters. The film was produced by Grant Hill, James McTeigue and Lana Wachowski, with Garrett Grant, Terry Needham, Michael Salven, Jesse Ehrman and Bruce Berman serving as executive producers. The director was joined by her collaborators from the Sense8 series, such as cinematographers Daniele Massaccesi and John Toll, set designers Hugh Bateup and Peter Walpole, editor Joseph Jett Sally, lighting designer Lindsay Pugh, visual effects supervisor Dan Glass, and composers Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer.

Synopsis:
Twenty years after the events of The Matrix Revolutions, Neo leads a seemingly ordinary life as Thomas A. Anderson in San Francisco where his therapist prescribes him blue pills. Neither he nor Trinity recognize each other. However, Morpheus gives him the red pill and opens his mind to the world of the Matrix again.

The Matrix Resurrections
Directed by Lana Wachowski
Written by Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon
Based on the Wachowskis' characters
Produced by Grant Hill, James McTeigue, Lana Wachowski
With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jada Pinkett Smith
Cinematography: Daniele Massaccesi, John Toll
Editing: Joseph Jett Sally
Music: Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
Production companies: Village Roadshow Pictures, Venus Castina Productions
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: December 18, 2021 (San Francisco), December 22, 2021 (United States)