Reports are that The Matrix 4 is going to start production in 2020, with Keanu and Carrie-Anne Moss reprising their roles of Neo and Trinity. Lana Wachowski will be back to write and direct it, without her sister this time.
I’m…excited? Maybe. The first movie was so groundbreaking, and it’s a shame they never made a sequel. 
Ah hell, who am I kidding. It’s going to be a disappointment. But what I’d give to be proven wrong.
Yeah, the first was groundbreaking. But it hasn’t aged very well. I’ll probably wait for a bunch of reviews before I decide if I want to see it for free or not.
So, how do we get Neo and Trinity in a non-prequel movie considering they are two of the people that died in the movies?
Just remember the setting of the movies.
Let’s be honest, the 2nd and 3rd movies didn’t make a lick of sense. Getting trapped between the real world and VR? What does that even mean?
So maybe in this one, we find out the events in those movies were some bad subroutine, and none of it really happened. It’s the VR version of “it was all a dream.”
I’m definitely waiting for reviews on this one after how bad 2 and 3 were.
If the second movie existed, it would have had an awesome chase sequence 
Brian
Well, I’m in the camp that no sequels should ever been made. The first one is THE perfect standalone movie in it’s own right (and I think it has aged just fine).
I doubt this one will change my mind about that, especially if it relies on elements of 2 and 3.
I will likely wait for the reviews to come out, and will not see it if it’s poor. I certainly would LIKE it to be good.
It would seem to me that the only way this would work is if copies of Neo’s and Trinity’s digital essences would have to be still in the Matrix, since, you know, they both died “IRL”.
Wonder if they are gonna de-age them? In the Matrix the possibilities are endless. Also, I would hope Morpheus would be in it.
I bet they could just make #4 totally ignoring whatever happened in 2 and 3. Just break canon. I honestly have no idea what happened in those movies despite watching them both when they came out, and I’m fine never thinking about them again.
I’ve never seen 2 or 3, so I’d be fine with this.
I’ll give you this. The fight scenes in the 2nd were boring and derivative, but the freeway chase scene was great.
On the bright side, this reduces Keanu Reeves’ availability to make Speed 3.
The first introduced the bullet time special effect.
It is, in that sense, groundbreaking.
The movie itself wasted its premise, going through not just the setup but also the reveal and climax all in the first 30 minutes, leaving nothing but action scenes for the rest of the film. Plot-wise, it shot its load and that makes it be not as interesting to rewatch.
Minus new special effect techniques, a strong enough premise, and executive producer reining in, the Wachowskis haven’t produced a second film that anyone has really cared for in their career.
Bullet time is a cool effect but, unless you can introduce another A-level special effect to cinema, it takes more to be an A-level director than repackaging anime for Western audiences. Most anime is crap. It’s not innately good anymore than buddy cop movies or romcoms are. You still have to have a good writer, editor, and director or you’ll just churn out a B movie.
What does anime have to do with the Matrix? The Matrix was a William Gibson pastiche by way of Hong Kong cinema. I doubt its makers knew or cared much about animation, Japanese or otherwise.
Speed Racer?
The Matrix pulled pretty heavily from Ghost in the Shell and the works of Mamoru Oshii. He even made a response movie, Avalon, that’s basically the sequel to Matrix that everyone would have rather have had. It’s pretty decent.
Quoth Wikipedia:
“The Wachowskis are known to have been impressed with Ghost in the Shell and went as far as to screen it to producer Joel Silver to show him what kind of film they wanted to make for The Matrix.[43][44] Indeed, various scenes from Ghost in the Shell have been seemingly lifted and transposed in The Matrix.[45][46]”
The Animatrix
I take it you have never seen the 1995 Ghost in the Shell anime?
How about just the opening. I’ll spoiler it since it’s NSFW, but here, see anything familiar at 50 seconds in?[spoiler]https://youtu.be/B05FrZqFY3g?t=49[/spoiler]
We can see by their own words and subsequent releases that that is clearly not the case.
I’m still waiting for Bill & Ted 3.
(Apparently IMDB claims it’s finally filming!)
Yep. Here’sone heartwarming storyabout that.