The Matrix 4 trailer reveals official title, plot details
By Dan Selcke
It’s been nearly 20 years since The Matrix: Revolutions arrived in theaters, bringing an end to the sci-fi action trilogy that introduced us to bullet time, sky-rocketed sales of leather jackets and made millions of people wonder, ‘Is the world even real?’ Now, stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss and returning as lead characters Neo and Trinity, and now we know a bit about how.
Warner Bros. debuted a trailer for the new Matrix movie at Cinema Con the other day, which included a reveal of the official title: The Matrix: Resurrections.
That’s appropriate, considering that (SPOILER) both Neo and Trinity die at the end of Revolutions. What’s more, Deadline laid out what happened in the trailer, which has a couple of surprising twists.
Morpheus is in The Matrix 4, but Laurence Fishburne isn’t
The trailer shows us Neo living a humdrum life in a way that reminds us of what he was doing at the beginning of the first Matrix movie. He’s not really comfortable with his surroundings, almost as if he’s living in a computer simulation but doesn’t realize it, wouldn’t you say?
He meets Trinity in a cafe. “Have we met?” she asks him. So there’s some kind of memory wipe going on here, or maybe these are simulated versions of Neo and Trinity; the world of The Matrix leaves a lot of room for riffing.
Perhaps most surprisingly, a younger version of Morpheus — Neo’s mentor from the original series originally played by Laurence Fishburne — shows up and hands Neo a red pill, telling him it’s “time to fly.” Deadline doesn’t mention who’s playing him, but we know Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is in the cast, so he seems like a good bet.
We’ve known for a while that Fishburne wasn’t in the movie, which I assumed meant that Morpheus wasn’t in the movie, even though he was a very important character in the original trilogy. I didn’t expect him to be recast, and with a younger actor, no less. And note that Reeves has said that this movie isn’t a prequel — it happens after the end of The Matrix: Revolutions, so I’m not sure what to make of it.
The Matrix: Resurrections also stars Neil Patrick Harris, Jonathan Groff, Christina Ricci and Jessica Yu Li Henwick. It will arrive in theaters and on HBO Max on December 22.
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