The Matrix 4

[Vic Boss 610]

Guess it's happening, with Keanu, Carrie-Anne and one of the Wachowskis on board

[Galeigh 284]

Not interested. The only good Matrix Movies were the first one and Animatrix.

[webhead 518]

Is that David Mitchell as in...

 

I'm like mildly interested just because I like the Matrix movies but man, I don't know.  Keanu probably has some good pull now so I feel like he wouldn't sign onto this if it was shit when he has a nice tidy payday rolling for John Wick.  Who knows though.   Time will tell.

[Galeigh 284]

My disinterest comes from the belief that they had already written the series so far into a corner that they can't fix it anymore.

[Vic Boss 610]

I'm super interested in it because one of the things that always bothered me about the ending of the trilogy was that they didn't resolve anything, just came to an armistice/stalemate.

 

But not interested enough to go the theatre to see it

[webhead 518]

The ending was that Neo was Jesus and that was pretty much it.  Curious to see where they go from there.  Would be really fucking funny if they went one level up again.

[Mera'din 306]

I'm curious if they're going to adapt, continue off of, or just flat out ignore the Matrix Online story. It was (at least originally) canon and continued the story straight off of the last movie and revolved heavily around whether Neo was actually dead or not (had major events involving Morpheus demanding the return of his body from the machines and the machines confirming they did not recycle his body but refusing to return it, etc. ). Shit got a little weird at points, but it was an interesting vehicle for the story.

[Deimos 100]

It's going to fail. The Matrix capitalized on the infancy of the internet (1999 and all) and played into a those simulation conspiracy theories that have been around for ages. Mix in Woo-Ping stunt coordination and ground breaking camera work (that became so overused since that it's virtually cheesy now) and what do they have left to try?

 

It's been too long, things have changed too much. Dressing like The Matrix is lame now. The music in The Matrix isn't exactly popular anymore. They are going to have to change everything about it of they want it to feel modern enough to not be a Dad dressed in a KoRn T-Shirt with a chain wallet and spiky hair.

 

IF I WAS THEM...

 

I would make this movie extremely meta based. I would have the movie star Keanu as Keanu and Carrie as Carrie. They play themselves in The Matrix. Something happened and they were re-inserted with new lives. Their lives are what they are in real life right now. Pretty much exactly what Cipher wanted in the first movie. It turns out Keanu is really Neo and Carrie is really Trinity but they forgot, except for when they keep experiencing Deja Vu. 

 

The Matrix is a real movie in this movie and it was used by the machines to help dispel any reasons they might have lingering memories, it's just memories of making a movie and not a real life.

 

Of course, Keanu and Carrie start to wake up again and see the world for what it really is - a crazy ass simulation. It plays into the world today with how insane everything is that it has to be made up by machines. It plays into ideas introduced in the first Matrix movie and it washes away being forced to recapture how the first three movies felt with a legit reason do they don't have to do lame shiny leather outfits again.

 

It would be someone to play a role of a conspiracy nut that stalks Keanu and tells him that he believes he really is Neo and the movies aren't just make believe. He's really Mr.Anderson and everything in the movies actually happened. Keanu ignores him, of course, but it creates a mental crack in the machines false world for him that unravels through the movie.

 

[Mera'din 306]

That idea reminds me (at least conceptually) of 'Wes Craven's New Nightmare'. XD

[Deimos 100]

Pretty much what I thought about while typing it up.