Get your sunglasses and long, black coats ready. The latest trailer for the upcoming sequel, The Matrix Resurrections, delves even deeper into the mystery of Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity’s (Carrie Anne-Moss) return. The latest footage has history repeating itself, as Neo slowly rediscovers his past (even going so far as to watch it play out on a movie screen in one of the trailer’s most meta moments), and rekindles his relationships — both good and bad.
The trailer offers plenty as it slowly peels back layer upon layer of The Matrix Resurrections. While much of the movie’s mysteries are still somewhat intact, the footage does reveal Neo in the real world, shaven-head and all, a potential newfound destiny for Trinity, and confirms what many had suspected about Mindhunter star Jonathan Groff’s role. Oh, and Neo still knows kung fu.
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After a series of delays, audiences won’t have to wait too much longer to re-enter the digital world, as The Matrix Resurrections is due for release later this month. The fourth movie in the iconic sci-fi action franchise, the film will continue the story that was first established in 1999’s The Matrix. The Matrix Resurrections will drop audiences into a familiar yet even more provocative world where reality is more subjective than ever and all that’s required to see the truth is to free your mind. Picking up years after the first outing, the surprise sequel will hope to once again bring something ground-breaking to pop culture while establishing and reinventing the mind-bending nature and epic action spectacle of its predecessor.
Returning star Keanu Reeves has teased the intent and lofty aspirations of The Matrix Resurrections, with the actor stating in no uncertain terms, that the long-awaited follow-up will be “throwing down the Matrix gauntlet again.” Reeves went on to describe the movie as “super smart, clever, entertaining, suspenseful, funny,” and pretty much everything else that fans of the franchise hope it will be.
The Matrix Resurrections finds Keanu Reeves’ Neo living a seemingly ordinary life as Thomas A. Anderson in San Francisco where his therapist prescribes him blue pills in order to dampen his destiny as The One. But, a chance meeting with Trinity will once again reawaken Neo’s mind to reality. Much like the trilogy before it, it is this relationship between Neo and Trinity that will take center stage, with Reeves having previously called The Matrix Resurrections a “love story.”
Produced, co-written, and directed by Lana Wachowski, The Matrix Resurrections stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss as Neo and Trinity respectively, as well as Jada Pinkett Smith, who will also reprise the roles of Niobe from previous movies. Making up the rest of the supporting cast are Jessica Henwick, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lambert Wilson, Daniel Bernhardt, Eréndira Ibarra, Christina Ricci, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Telma Hopkins, Max Riemelt, Toby Onwumere, Brian J. Smith, Andrew Caldwell, and Ellen Hollman.
Intriguingly, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is also on board as an alternate, younger version of Morpheus, the freedom fighter previously played by Laurence Fishburne who originally freed Neo from the confines of Matrix. “The character’s called Morpheus. It will make sense when it comes out,” is all that Abdul-Mateen has been willing to divulge so far…
The Matrix Resurrections will have its world premiere on December 18, 2021, in San Francisco and is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures theatrically on December 22, 2021. The movie will also stream digitally on HBO Max in the United States for a month beginning on that same date.
