As the masses begin streaming and gathering in theaters to be introduced to our new incarnation of Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, we’ll see in the reviews if the audience agrees with the choice for The Matrix: Resurrections. Unilad recently spoke with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss to discuss if they felt Fishburne’s absence. “Yeah, certainly. Speaking with Lana about that… it was just creatively where she wanted to go with the production and the story. Yeah, we love Hugo and Laurence, and we thought about them all the time,” Reeves said.
“It’s hard not to think about them, because they’re so much a part of it. I love both of them, and they’re both so talented and such great people. But, there’s an evolution that happened for Lana with the story, and we’re here serving that, you know?” Moss added.
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Fisburne spoke with Collider and answered if he’s getting tired of being asked The Matrix: Resurrections questions, “It would make sense that people would ask me that, so it doesn’t get old. 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.”
We were all sold on the new installment when Keanu Reeves’ reaction to the film was revealed. Director and writer Lana Wachowski described our hero’s reaction to the final cut saying, “We showed the film to Keanu, and he really was blown away by it, and he said something that was typically Keanu, where it’s incredibly insightful. And he’s just sort of sitting there, and you don’t expect some incredible revelation to come out of him at that moment, like casual brilliance just kind of rolls off of Keanu. And he was just sitting there, and he goes, ‘Twenty years ago you told a story in which you described the coming twenty years and the problems of the nature of digital, virtual life and how it was going to impact us and how we think about it, and gave us a frame to be able to think about it and talk about it. And you took the same character and the same stories and the same stuff, and somehow you made it about the next twenty years.’ And he was like, ‘How did you do that?’”
December 22 has finally arrived, and with it comes the release of The Matrix Resurrections where we pick up from where the first film left off with our original duo Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), seemingly having forgotten the events from the films sandwiched between, and is probably the most impactful in delivering that magical combination of nostalgia and originality the audience is calling for. The official synopsis reads: “In a world of two realities - everyday life and what lies behind it - Thomas Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. Choice, while an illusion, is still the only way in or out of the Matrix, which is stronger, more secure, and more dangerous than ever before.”
Along with our heroic duo, the ensemble cast boasts Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Henwick, Christina Ricci, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II playing a young Morpheus, Jonathan Groff, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Daniel Bernhardt playing Agent Johnson, Writing duties were shared for the Lana Wachowski directed film by David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon, and of course, Lana Wachowski.The Matrix: Resurrections releases in theaters and on HBO Max today.
