Variety reported that Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures will produce and distribute the film. Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich announced the film Tuesday, Variety reported.
“We could not be more excited to be reentering ‘The Matrix’ with Lana,” Emmerich said. “Lana is a true visionary — a singular and original creative filmmaker — and we are thrilled that she is writing, directing and producing this new chapter in ‘The Matrix’ universe.”
Lana and her sister Lilly wrote and produced “The Matrix” trilogy between 1999 and 2003. The trilogy starred Reeves, Moss and Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, with Hugo Weaving playing antagonist Agent Smith. The films collective earned more than $1.6 billion at the global box office.
Moss, who played Trinity in the trilogy, posted on Instagram that she is “grateful and beyond excited” to return to the franchise. Lana Wachowski, too, is excited to return.
“Many of the ideas Lilly and I explored 20 years ago about our reality are even more relevant now,” she said. “I’m very happy to have these characters back in my life and grateful for another chance to work with my brilliant friends.”
The Variety article reports that the fourth film will likely commence production in 2020. That would put the release of the film around 2021 or 2022, depending on shooting and post production, of course.
Plot details are unknown. It’s also not clear if Fishburne will return as Morpheus, but it would be difficult for him not to. Of the main trio, Fishburne is the only one to reprise his role, including lending his voice to the 2005 video game The Matrix: Path of Neo and in a 2014 Super Bowl ad for Kia Motors’ K900.
It’s also unclear how the characters will return. Both Trinity and Neo were seemingly killed off in The Matrix Revolutions. Then again, the Oracle (Mary Alice) did predict Neo’s return when asked if he would be seen again: “I suspect so,” she mused.
In celebration of this news, here’s a look at some of the best quotes and moments from The Matrix trilogy:
1. “There is no spoon”
2. The blue pill or the red pill
3. “What is real? How do you define ‘real’? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.” -Morpheus
4. “There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” -Morpheus
5. “To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.” -Mouse
6. “Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?” -Morpheus
7. “Dodge this” -Trinity
8. The Oracle: “Candy?”
Neo: “You already know if I’m going to take it?”
The Oracle: “Wouldn’t be much of an Oracle if I didn’t.”
Neo: “But if you already know, how can I make a choice?”
The Oracle: “Because you didn’t come here to make the choice, you’ve already made it. You’re here to try to understand why you made it.”
9. “We can never see past the choices we don’t understand.” -The Oracle
10. The Burly Brawl
11. The final fight between Neo and Smith
12. “Mr. Anderson.” -Agent Smith
13. And of course the lobby shootout from the first film
Originally from the heartland of America in Kansas, TJ Rigg now calls Texas home, but Kansas always holds a special place in his heart.
Rigg grew up in Wichita and Andover, Kansas. He attended elementary school in Wichita and middle and high school in Andover, first at Andover Central Middle School and later at Andover Middle and High Schools, home of the Trojans. At Andover High, he was active in marching band, pep band, concert/symphonic band, school publications, newspaper and theatre and kept busy with all of those activities before his graduation in May 2012.
TJ Rigg attended Wichita State University from 2012 to 2017, with a major in general studies with an emphasis in communication. Throughout his collegiate career, he was highly active in the student-run newspaper, The Sunflower. He served as editor-in-chief of The Sunflower for the 2014-15 school year. Under Rigg’s direction, The Sunflower became a news powerhouse, going from writing mostly features to a focus on covering hard news on campus. To that end, he led The Sunflower’s team in earning its first All-Kansas Award for excellence in collegiate journalism in nearly 20 years at the 2015 Kansas Collegiate Media conference. For the last two years of his time at The Sunflower, Rigg returned to his role as a reporter and copy editor, serving primary as a political reporter and as a mentor to the younger staff members, who have continued his approach to covering WSU News.
In addition to The Sunflower, Rigg has also written for and taken photos for several other publications and one television station, including The Flint Hills Media Project, The Andover American (which later merged with two newspapers into The Butler County Times-Gazette), KWCH 12 Eyewitness News, The Gayly, The Emporia Gazette and The Wichita Eagle. His reporting, editing and photography has earned him several awards over the years and he is proud of the work he did as a journalist.
Besides journalistic writing, TJ Rigg is also a creative writer and has published works on various websites and has published three books through CreateSpace, an independent publishing company partnered with Amazon. His three books are available for sale on his Amazon Author Page. He is a seven-time participant and winner of National Novel Writing Month (better known as NaNoWriMo), writing his three books for NaNoWriMo 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Since 2017, Rigg’s participation in NaNoWriMo has been focused on fanfiction. In 2017, he rewrote his Harry Potter fanfic, A Loyal Friend, which to date is his longest story written, at 105,821 words and 51 chapters. In 2018, he rewrote his Star Wars trilogy Birth of the Sith, which was originally written as a fan film project in 2007, and focused on the birth of the Order of the Sith Lords. In 2019, he wrote an original Stranger Things fanfic titled Shipboard Romance, a story that follows the Stranger Things characters in an alternate timeline where love blossoms during a summer cruise. In November 2020, Rigg wrote a crossover fanfic of The Terminator and Stranger Things, called No Fate. The story retained much of the plot of the first two Terminator films, with the characters of Stranger Things occupying the roles of the characters from the films.
In November 2021, Rigg will spend NaNoWriMo 2021 reflecting on his career in news, with his memoir Headline Goes Here: A Reporter’s Adventures. He will reflect on his nine years working in news, focusing on the years in high school and in college working for The Sunflower at WSU and the many adventures he had as a reporter.
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