It's been a long time since we saw a Matrix movie, and even longer since we saw a good one.
Unlike a lot of people, I didn't mind the Matrix: Reloaded, and actually, I thought it was pretty rad. I mean, yeah, I thought all the Marovingian stuff was overlong and didn't make any sense, and I thought the keymaster was cool but didn't really make any sense, and I thought that although the architect was cool, when you stop to think about it, it didn't really make any sense. Still, it was like a train that is slowly going off the tracks; sure, you're going to end up in a pile of twisted wreckage, but in the meantime, you're still moving at a pretty good clip.
Although the Matrix 4 was announced about a year ago, there hasn't been much info since. We do know that writer Zak Penn is writing a treatment, although that doesn't mean he is going to be writing the screenplay. Not that that would be a bad thing; Penn has worked on some very decent action flicks, like X-Men 2, Norton's version of the Hulk, the Avengers, and most recently, Ready Player One. The other thing we know for sure is that he will not be writing his treatment as a reboot, instead expanding the universe and continuing the series.
Here's what he had to say about the state of the project:
"I've been working on Matrix right now. Which is in...a phase right now. That's a franchise I desperately want to see brought back and, I can't go in to too much detail, but I've been harassing Warner Bros. for years to try to get it going again so that's one thing I'm working on and I've been working on a bunch of other things too. I will fight people who don't under...look, I think OASIS (the interconnected virtual space in Ready Player One) is similar, both the Matrix and OASIS are similar in that they are brilliant ideas for universes. And they are not, you know, when it came out about Matrix, people were like 'Oh no, there going to reboot Matrix I was like, Why, I'm not insane. I mean, The Matrix is still one of my favorite...they'd re-release The Matrix and people would go see it."
So far, there has been no indication that the Wachowskis will return, which I am not 100% upset about... those last two movies made no sense, and the action in the third flick was just ok, and that's what little there was of it. I am also not sure how this whole thing is going to work, and I'm worried that it's gonna be like the Terminator series, where you basically just keep introducing new Terminators. We know how to kill agents. Now what? Agent 2.0's? 2.5?
It just doesn't have the same ring to it.
