The Matrix Resurrections co-writer/director Lana Wachowski had a very personal reason for reviving The Matrix's iconic heroes, Neo and Trinity, for the franchise's fourth installment.
Appearing on a panel about "The Art of Screenwriting" at the International Literature Festival Berlin, Wachowski explained how the death of her parents and a close friend led to her idea for The Matrix Resurrections. "My dad died, then this friend died, then my mom died. I didn't really know how to process that kind of grief. I hadn't experienced it that closely... You know their lives are going to end and yet it was still really hard," she explained.
"My brain has always reached into my imagination and one night, I was crying and I couldn't sleep, and my brain exploded this whole story," she continued. "And I couldn't have my mom and dad, yet suddenly I had Neo and Trinity, arguably the two most important characters in my life. It was immediately comforting to have these two characters alive again, and it's super simple. You can look at it and say: 'ok, these two people die and ok, bring these two people back to life and oh, doesn't that feel good.' Yeah, it did! It's simple, and this is what art does and that's what stories do, they comfort us."
Whereas Wachowski found comfort in revisiting the world of The Matrix after such a dark time in her life, her sister Lilly Wachowski, who co-directed the first three Matrix movies with Lana, felt differently, as she explained in a recent interview. "[Lana] had come up with this idea for another Matrix movie, and we had this talk, and it was actually -- we started talking about it in between [our] dad dying and [our] mom dying, which was like five weeks apart," explained Lilly. "And there was something about the idea of going backward and being a part of something that I had done before that was expressly unappealing."
As fans quickly noted after The Matrix Resurrections' first trailer dropped, Lilly isn't the only key player from The Matrix trilogy not returning for the latest chapter. Laurence Fishburne isn't reprising his role as Morpheus for the film either, with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II taking his place as a younger iteration of the character whose true nature, like that of Resurrections' Neo and Trinity, remains a mystery for the time being.
All will come to light when The Matrix Resurrections arrives on Dec. 22. Like the rest of Warner Bros.' slate this year, the film will premiere day and date in theaters and on HBO Max.
Source: YouTube, via Screen Rant
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