Warner Bros. Pictures has dropped a brand new The Matrix Resurrections featurette for Lana Wachowski’s long-awaited fourth installment, featuring new footage that highlights the return of Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss to the action sci-fi franchise. The film is set to be released in theaters and on HBO Max on December 22.
The behind-the-scenes video, which you can check out below, features commentaries from Wachowski and the main cast including Reeves, Moss, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas as they talk about the emotional reunion between the iconic characters. They also tease how the upcoming film’s story will center around Neo and Trinity’s epic love story.
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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.
“In the threequel, return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it,” reads the synopsis. “To find out if his reality is a physical or mental construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. And if Thomas…Neo…has learned anything, it’s that choice, while an illusion, is still the only way out of—or into—the Matrix. Of course, Neo already knows what he has to do. But what he doesn’t yet know is the Matrix is stronger, more secure and more dangerous than ever before. Déjà vu.”
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.
