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Trailer for ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Heads Down the Rabbit Hole This Thursday [Video]
Warner Bros. just dropped a short teaser promising that the first trailer for The Matrix Resurrections is heading down the rabbit hole this coming Thursday, September 9th. EW also shared the above first shot of Keanu Reeves in the fourth film in the series.
Oh, hey, and if you want to see more, they’ve also relaunched the official website, which features over, get this, 180,000 teasers. Visit WhatIsTheMatrix.com and make your choice. There’s a ton of footage.
Digressing, the studio previously shared new details about the Lana Wachowski-directed sequel at the CinemaCon, revealing a really intriguing setup that should raise eyebrows.
The title The Matrix Resurrections could be a reference to Neo’s (Keanu Reeves) Jesus-like death and resurrection(s) at the end of both The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), or possibly it’s teasing the restoration of the machines. Possibly both?
And then there’s the plot. Here’s the quick pitch: Neo is in therapy and doesn’t remember The Matrix. He runs into Trinity at a coffee shop…
“The trailer begins with Neil Patrick Harris talking to Keanu Reeves’ Neo,” details Deadline. “A near future San Francisco. It appears that Neo is trapped in a humdrum world, much like his first self in the 1999 movie. He’s just not getting his surroundings.
“Am I crazy?” asks Reeves’ Neo. “We don’t use that word in here,” says Harris’ therapist.
Reeves comes in contact with Carrie Anne Moss’ Trinity in a cafe: “Have we met?” she asks Neo.
A shot of blue pills spilling into a sink, as Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” song plays.
Then a shot of Neo distorting into an old man in the mirror. A younger Morpheus tells Neo “time to fly,” handing him a red pill.
Then a lot of jumping, a lot of twists in midair, karate and all the acrobats we expect from a Matrix movie.
Is this the same trailer we’ll be seeing online later this week?
The Matrix Resurrections is still slated to come out on December 22, most likely in theaters and on HBO Max.
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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