The Matrix Resurrections Featurette Highlights the Franchise’s Legacy

Warner Bros. Pictures has dropped the first behind-the-scenes featurette for Lana Wachowski’s highly-anticipated The Matrix Resurrections, featuring interviews from the cast including returning leads Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. The film is currently slated to arrive in theaters and on HBO Max on December 22, 2021.

The Matrix Resurrections featurette, which you can check out below, highlights the iconic sci-fi franchise’s legacy as Reeves and Moss talked about their experience working on the first three films and how it made an impact on their lives. Meanwhile, new cast members such as Jessica Henwick and Neil Patrick Harris discussed The Matrix‘s pop culture influence and how its groundbreaking story and themes changed people’s views on reality.

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The Matrix Resurrections is directed by Lana Wachowski from a screenplay she co-wrote with Aleksander Hemon and David Mitchell. The fourth installment features the return of Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Jada Pinkett Smith, reprising their iconic roles as Neo, Trinity, and Niobe. Lambert Wilson and Daniel Bernhardt are also reprising their respective villainous roles of The Merovingian and Agent Johnson.

Joining them are franchise newcomers Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Christina Ricci, Telma Hopkins, Eréndira Ibarra, Toby Onwumere, Max Riemelt, and Brian J. Smith.

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The three previous films—The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), and The Matrix Revolutions (2003)—have earned more than $1.6 billion at the global box office and were all top-10 domestic hits in their respective years of release. The Matrix Revolutions was also the first film ever to release simultaneously in every major country at the same hour around the world.

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