Matrix 4 and 5(!?!) in the works...

Courtesy of Ain't It Cool News.

Reeves says the scripts will bring back Neo, but I was under the impression that Neo died at the end of Revolutions.

As one of the few that actually enjoyed Matrix 2 and 3, I'm stoked.

I think I'll pass. I greatly enjoyed the first one. I also find it much better when I just let it stand by itself.

Gotta disagree here. I've been thinking this for some time, that an extention to the story is almost begging to be written.

How is the architect going to communicate the "reality" of the outside world to those plugged in?

How many will choose to leave and make it in the harsh real world?

How will the humans deal with the inevitable war harks that feel "we can win THIS time"?


I like the idea. The "Matrix" was just the set up.

As for Neo, I think it was pretty well established that the physicality of the "real world" doesn't necessarily = the Matrix. Even if Neo's physical body was destroyed, he, like other "programs" without a "real world" presence, can still exist in the Matrix.

Rich

I loved the Matrix but 2 and 3 did nothing for me. If 4 and 5 get made I will wait until they are on Netflix to check out.

Cool.

I never understood the hate for Matrix 2 and 3. Admittedly, with Matrix 3, I tend to fast forward to all the fight scenes and I enjoy it that way. And sometimes it's really quick between those fight scenes.

No idea what the MMO said happened at the end, but I never thought Neo was actually dead at the end of 3. Possible for sure. But I thought they left it open so it could go either way.

There was no need for sequels since after the cat was out of the bag with the mind blowing reveal that to what the matrix was; it had nothing more of substance to work with. I was asking myself could they possibly add to the story that would be remotely as interesting as the first film....the answer...nothing.

Hence why they really just piled on the action scenes to point they went on all too long and got silly. (particularly the opening fight with agent smith in the beginning of the second film.) They had nothing else up their sleeve that made a lick of sense. Every additional reveal was just crowbar crap into the mythos that unraveled more and more of the story.

Like why in the world would the Machines had to rip apart zion multiple times before. You'd think after them laying waste to all humans outside the Matrix there would be no surviving humans around to ever set up shop to that level again (it was plausible prior to the war humans would had the resources to have done it, but once they killed the majority of the rebels and wrecked their home they'd never have a chance at rebuilding it.) as there was nothing to live off of or any where safe to build up their resources and numbers unless the machines Allowed them to. A bunch of naked humans randomly escaping the matrix here and there would be really easy for them to contain. Making the whole story so short bus it's unreal.


As some people said, the matrix trilogy was 2 movies too long heh. I've watched the original dozns of times as I own it on DVD. I've never rewatched the sequels as I watched the third just for sake of seeing it once and hoped was something there worth seeing. I really don't see why we need another 2 films unless they come up with something that isn't some really stellar that should have been in the story in the first place.(besides more wire frame porn.) I highly doubt they will as they seem to have blown their load on the first film and been meandering since. Definitely waiting these till they hit DVD if I ever bother seeing them.

I wonder if they're going to incorporate the storylines from The Matrix Online.

Considering the Wachowskis were involved directly with that.



-np

I always felt the ending of Revolutions didn't actually solve anything. All the robots did was half-destroy Zion that time but they still didn't release the other humans from the Matrix AND they got Neo to upload himself back into the Matrix. So really it's like the cycle started over and there will be a few decades of peace with the resistance freeing a handful of people till the code starts to break down and Zion again reaches a critical number. Then Neo appears, Robots prepare an attack on Zion, everything repeats again.

So are they going to be prequels detailing Neo in one of the previous cycles of destruction or are they going the sequel route and put Neo in the future during the next cycle and maybe this time he'll get it right.

I have always heard that the first movie incorporated many of the ideas the W Brothers had for sequels, but they crammed it all into one movie because they never knew if they would actually get a chance to do more movies.

The second and third movies are like the Star Wars prequel movies, now that I think about it. All action and flash, very little substance. The writing was even more hackneyed, it seemed like since everyone dug the philosophical questions of the first movie, they were cranked up to 11 in the sequels and all the new characters were lame and barely developed.

Yet, I ask myself "Will I see any sequels?" And I answer, "Sure!"

By the by, to bring Neo back, I think the best way would be to make him the villain. He was infected by Smith, has near-God powers, and it would allow some newer, fresher characters to come into the forefront.

UPDATE: The Matrix isn't real, like Keanu Reeves talking about sequel