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Reimagined and like-for-like shots, such as Trinity leaving Neo in a coffee shop, Groff's character giving a carbon copy speech that Agent Smith previously gave, and Neo deciding whether to take the red or blue pill, reveal how The Matrix Resurrections will revisit its past.īut there's a lot here that looks new, too.

There are also numerous shots that showcase the meta nature of The Matrix Resurrections, too, with plenty of call-backs to the other three films. There's plenty that is teased – for one, it looks like Jonathan Groff's character is the reincarnated form of Agent Smith, who was portrayed by Hugo Weaving in the original trilogy. But then again, Neo died in a major Hollywood blockbuster.And when we say 'a bit', we only mean 'a bit'. ( Polygon has one theory as to why Fishburne’s Morpheus won’t return: he, too, was killed off after the events of Revolutions in the 2005 video game The Matrix Online. It’s conspicuous that Wachowski would bring back several white actors whose characters were dead as of Revolutions, but not actors of color like Torres and Fishburne. When asked by Collider about his own absence from Resurrections, Laurence Fishburne said “you’d have to ask Lana Wachowski why, because I don’t have an answer for that.” “So that’s all I have to say about that,” Torres said. In an interview with Variety earlier this year, Gina Torres, who played Cas in the first two sequels, pointed out that “the people that are actually in the movie, I believe died,” pointedly adding that “the people that aren’t didn’t ” “I’m glad people are talking about The Matrix movies with a trans narrative, and I’m grateful I can be a part of throwing them a rope along their journey.”īut as slick and cool as this new trailer looks, The Matrix Resurrections is already being met with controversy.

Resurrections is almost guaranteed to be one of 2021’s biggest blockbusters, and the fact that it’s helmed by a trans person is itself indicative of how much the culture around trans identity has changed since the first film debuted more than twenty years ago. And it makes sense that this new vanguard of anti-Machine resistance fighters would reflect the open, in-your-face queerness of Millennials and Zoomers, as opposed to the basic black leather of the original films’ clubwear-inspired styles. But the sheer number of asymmetrical, brightly-colored haircuts in this first trailer alone is setting off glorious gay alarm bells in my head. Although The Matrix was always a trans-coded movie, that messaging was largely allegorical in the original film. A much-beloved supporting character from the first film, Switch was originally intended to be explicitly trans, per the Wachowskis: she’d appear as a man in the real world, but her “residual self-image” in the Matrix would be a woman, making the film’s exploration of gender more explicit.īut judging from the appearances of the new Resistance members in the trailer, this new iteration of The Matrix is already shaping up to to be pretty explicitly queer. What caught my eye was a briefly teased fight scene between Neo and a character with short-cropped, bleach blonde hair, whom I would love to believe is a reimagined version of Belinda McClory’s Switch. The whole thing sort of makes you wonder just how many plot beats from the first film Wachowski plans to resurrect, but it all looks pretty slick, and a new generation of viewers will need to be brought up to speed.

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As the trailer’s action ramps up, we’re treated to a pastiche of visuals designed to make Matrix devotees squeal: random extras morphing into Agents (not played by Hugo Weaving, whose equally iconic Agent Smith went rogue in Revolutions) shots of the ruined future Earth populated by countless machine pods full of human livestock and multiple characters jumping out of windows, as Neo and Trinity were both wont to do.

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