The Matrix Resurrections trailer promises huge changes for Keanu’s Neo

The Matrix is evolving. That’s the undeniable takeaway from the latest trailer for Resurrections of the MatrixThe video is a short journey that takes viewers to the past and future of Matrices. The video also informs viewers that tickets will be available starting December 6 for the Dec. 22 movie release.

“A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix,” a voice says, as “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane plays in the background. A black cat crosses Neo’s path, just as it did in original, 1999 Matrix. The voice reminds the viewer that “it happens when they change something.”

After that, the trailer proceeds through several Star Wars movies–Sidewipes that look like sideways, transitioning from the past to the upcoming movie. Viewers see Neo, plugged in to the pods that have captured all humanity. There are cool jumps, bullets, quick shots of fan favorites like Seraph and Smith, an updated version of Smith’s mouth-elimination trick from the first movie, long views down a hallway in preparation for a fight, Neo and Trinity putting sunglasses on, and so on.

Some of these characters may look quite different now than they did when they were first introduced. The Merovingian is often referred to as the “Merovingian”. Reloaded: The Matrix He is known as the Frenchman. One of the oldest programs in The Matrix, he is best remembered for his decadence, a long speech about causality, and being married to Monica Bellucci’s Persephone.

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The shortest glimpse here shows him looking very different: disheveled and untidy, without any of his finery (or Monica Bellucci). It’s too early to know exactly what happens to The Merovingian, but it seems like everyone’s favorite horny French computer program might just be in for a change of scenery.

A new Entertainment Weekly cover story goes even further into “change,” both in terms of what to expect from the new movie and what was altered in the old. Keanu Reeves recalls an early draft of the first movie’s original script, where a character entered the Matrix world as a different sex, adding further credence to the idea that The Matrix At least partly, it was about the trans experience. “I think the studio wasn’t ready for that,” he guesses.

These are just a few of the interesting facts about contemporary movie production. Jessica Henwick is a brand newcomer to this franchise. Warner Bros. forced her to decide between the two. Resurrections and Marvel’s Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings. “It was a red-pill/blue-pill moment for me,” she says, and clearly chose to chase down the rabbit hole.

Yahya AbdulMateen II is the new Morpheus and spoke with Wired to discuss working with Lana Wachowski. “She’s the only director I’ve ever worked with who will grab the camera from the DP or from the camera operator and film something herself. It was like she was there. She really put her muscle and sweat into it,” he says, also mentioning that it felt like Wachowski was making “her art for an audience of one, which is herself, and then trusts that there will be an appetite for it.”

Work on between the two stories Resurrections of the Matrix It seems intense but also relaxed. In the EW story, Carrie Anne-Moss talks about having “a lot of obstacles to overcome” in performing a scene where she and Reeves leap off a 40-story building, and Reeves mentions that if the two stars were present for any given scene, “it’s not a stunt,” suggesting that there more elaborate scenes where pros step in.

But on the other hand, Reeves says Wachowski “more interested in doing than rehearsing” and that the cast “barely rehearsed, if at all.”

Back in 1999, Agent Smith told Morpheus that “The future is our world … the future is our time.” Now that future’s here.