![]() Neo stops taking the pills and begins to notice things are not what they seem. Anderson’s being prescribed a steady supply of blue pills, presumably by his psychiatrist - whose blue-rimmed glasses are a sinister giveaway. ![]() What we do know is that Neo, once again going by Thomas Anderson, and Trinity appear to be back in the Matrix program, but they don’t remember each other or any of their past lives. That question is still tricky the trailer keeps most of the actual plot hidden. Smith, Ellen Hollman, and Christina Ricci round out the rest of the cast. And Jonathan Groff, Toby Onwumere, Max Riemelt, Eréndira Ibarra, Priyanka Chopra, Andrew Caldwell, Brian J. Neil Patrick Harris appears as Thomas Anderson’s psychologist, who just has to be a program. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II ( Watchmen, Candyman) and Iron Fist’s Jessica Henwick appear to be the new co-leads, working with a delightful set of new skills and heavy artillery. The Matrix Resurrections is adding plenty of new faces to the franchise. Fishburne told Collider this year, “I am not in the next Matrix movie, and you’d have to ask Lana Wachowski why, because I don’t have an answer for that.” As hard as it is to imagine a Matrix film without Fishburne, the answer may lie in the plot of Resurrections. ![]() As for Fishburne, the actor, surprisingly, was never approached for the new movie. In Weaving’s case, scheduling conflicts prevented him from appearing, which raises a few questions about Neo’s role in the film without his opposite. The most obvious omissions from the line-up so far are Hugo Weaving’s iconic baddie, Agent Smith, and Laurence Fishburne’s equally inimitable Morpheus. While there is speculation that other familiar faces might appear, they’ve yet to be announced. A couple of smaller supporting characters will also return: Daniel Bernhardt reprises his role as Agent Johnson from The Matrix Reloaded, and Lambert Wilson returns as the trafficker of information, the Merovingian, from Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Carrie-Anne Moss also returns as Trinity, and Jada Pinkett Smith is back as Niobe, though she isn’t in the trailer. ![]() The beloved actor returns as Neo, this time rocking his signature John Wick look. It wouldn’t be The Matrix without Keanu Reeves. Even with all there is to see in the new trailer, so many questions still remain. Of course, these mind games wouldn’t pack nearly the same punch without glorious Wachowski-stylized action, which now looks inspired in part by the Keanu Reeves–starring John Wick films (ironically, the work of fight choreographer Chad Stahelski, who doubled as Neo and served as stunt coordinator for the original trilogy). The new trailer leans hard into nostalgia (hello, “White Rabbit”), but once-familiar characters are now seemingly strangers to themselves and to each other. And it suggests that The Matrix Resurrections will live up to the original trilogy’s legacy of entertaining and challenging science fiction. Shifting release dates cast some doubt over whether the film is actually coming out this year, but the first full-length trailer is finally here. After 18 years, The Matrix is back, though it’s not the same as we left it. It’s not a remake, reboot, or reimagining. But there also appears to be a deeper point to the promo, a suggestion that “Resurrections” is not just going to revisit the previous “Matrix” movies, but fundamentally change them - possibly subvert them altogether.Free your mind. It happens when they change something” - followed by a series of split-screen images that overlay, often with eerie precision, the previous “Matrix” movies with scenes from “Resurrections.” On one level, the comparisons are basic movie marketing, assuring viewers that this new movie will give them a version of what they’ve seen before. The trailer opens by quoting Trinity ( Carrie-Anne Moss) from 1999’s “The Matrix” - “A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. In the latest trailer for “ The Matrix Resurrections” - the sequel to the first “Matrix” trilogy that concluded 18 years ago with “The Matrix Revolutions” - it’s clear that director Lana Wachowski and her collaborators are going to get meta with what a sequel is. Sequels, by their nature, are a remix of what’s come before: a new iteration of characters we’ve already met and a story we already know.
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