The Matrix Resurrections is a 2021 American science fiction action film produced, co-written, and directed by Lana Wachowski. It is the sequel to The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and the fourth installment in The Matrix film series. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Lambert Wilson, and Jada Pinkett Smith reprise their roles from previous films in the series, being joined by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Christina Ricci. The film was produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Venus Castina Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Following the release of Revolutions, the Wachowskis denied the possibility of another Matrix film, having intended the third film to be the trilogy’s conclusion, though rumors emerged since then about a possible fourth Matrix film and the studio constantly expressed interest in reviving the franchise, hiring Zak Penn to write a new screenplay after the Wachowskis refused every offer to create more sequels. In late 2019, a fourth Matrix film was finally announced, with Lana Wachowski returning as director without her sister, and Reeves and Moss reprising their roles. Filming started in February 2020 but was halted the next month by the COVID-19 pandemic. Wachowski toyed with the possibility of shelving the project and leaving the film unfinished, but the cast insisted that she finish it. Filming resumed in August 2020, concluding three months later.

The Matrix Resurrections had its world premiere in Toronto, Canada on December 16, 2021 and was theatrically released in Russia on the same day, and will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures theatrically in other countries on December 22, 2021. It will also stream digitally on the ad-free tier of HBO Max in the United States for a month beginning on that same date.

Premise

Twenty years after the events of The Matrix Revolutions,^[2] Neo lives a seemingly ordinary life under his original identity as Thomas A. Anderson in San Francisco, with a therapist who prescribes him blue pills to counteract the strange and unnatural things he occasionally glimpses. He also meets a woman who appears to be Trinity, but neither of them recognizes the other. However, when a new version of Morpheus offers him the red pill and reopens his mind to the world of the Matrix, which has become more secure and dangerous in the years since the Smith infection, Neo joins a group of rebels to fight a new enemy.

Cast

• Keanu Reeves as Thomas Anderson / Neo^[3]
• Carrie-Anne Moss as Tiffany / Trinity^[3]
• Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Morpheus:^[4][5][6] An alternate version of the hacker who freed Neo from the Matrix.^[7] The character was portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in the previous films; Fishburne’s version of the character appears through the use of archive footage.^[6][8][9]
• Jessica Henwick as Bugs:^[10] A blue-haired gunslinger with a White Rabbit tattoo. Henwick describes her character as “the audience’s eyes”.^[7]
• Jonathan Groff as Smith:^[11][12] Thomas’s business partner and Neo’s former arch-nemesis and Agent of the Matrix. He has an eye for the bottom line and later comes to blows with Neo.^[13] The character was portrayed by Hugo Weaving in the previous films; Weaving also appears as Smith through the use of archive footage.^[6]
• Neil Patrick Harris as The Analyst:^[11] Thomas’s therapist, who works closely with his patient to understand the meaning behind his dreams and to distinguish them from reality.^[6]
• Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Sati:^[14] An exile program created without a purpose who met Neo shortly before the end of the Machine War. The character was portrayed by Tanveer K. Atwal in The Matrix Revolutions (2003).
• Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe:^[6] A human General and former Captain of the hovercraft Logos. Smith reprises her role from the previous two films.
• Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian:^[15][6] A self-professed trafficker of information who encountered Neo prior to the end of the Machine War and who has a long-standing grudge against the Oracle. Wilson reprises his role from the previous two films.
• Daniel Bernhardt as Agent Johnson:^[16][6] An Agent of the Matrix. Bernhardt reprises his role from The Matrix Reloaded (2003).
• Eréndira Ibarra as Lexy^[17]
• Max Riemelt as Shepherd^[12]
• Brian J. Smith as Berg^[12]
• Toby Onwumere as Sequoia^[12]

Additionally, Christina Ricci, Telma Hopkins, Ellen Hollman and Andrew Caldwell have been cast in undisclosed roles.^{[18][19][20][21]} Tom Hardy filmed an uncredited background cameo appearance, due to The Matrix Resurrections filming in San Francisco simultaneously with Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), in which Hardy starred as Eddie Brock / Venom. However, Henwick speculates whether Hardy’s appearance remained in the final cut or not.

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