Drew Goddard, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Martian who also directed The Cabin in the Woods, has been set to write and direct a new Matrix movie at Warner Bros. The franchise’s original co-scribe and co-director Lana Wachowski is executive producing.
It’s still early days in regards to whether core cast members Keanu Reeves, Carrie Anne-Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving and Jada Pinkett Smith are coming back.
“Drew came to Warner Bros with a new idea that we all believe would be an incredible way to continue the Matrix world, by both honoring what Lana and Lilly began over 25 years ago and offering a unique perspective based on his own love of the series and characters,” said Jesse Ehrman, Warner Bros Motion Pictures President of Production. “The entire team at Warner Bros Discovery is thrilled for Drew to be making this new Matrix film, adding his vision to the cinematic canon the Wachowskis spent a quarter of a century building here at the studio.”
Goddard received an Academy Award nomination for his adapted screenplay for The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. Goddard wrote such movies as Cloverfield and World War Z, and wrote and directed The Cabin in the Woods and Bad Times at the El Royale. Goddard began his career writing on the ’90s hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His TV credits include Angel, Alias, Lost, Daredevil and The Good Place.
Was the new matrix good? Yet to see it.
The 4th Matrix movie wasn’t the best movie, or the best Matrix movie, but it was the best 4th Matrix movie that was possible.
I think it was a nice cap to characters that we care about and giving them a happy ending if you want that sort of thing. The limited budget shows a bit, it doesn’t feel quite as grand as the other Matrix films. I don’t think it had as much to say philosophically, so much as just a nice revisit to a universe that’s interesting and has a lot more stories in it.
Yeah, really felt like a cast call and a happy reunion for the characters
Nothing incredible, but it’s fun to watch once to cap off the franchise
It was okay. I didn’t feel like it was necessary, but the plotting was not bad, and they gave Trinity more agency and importance. Stream it if it’s on a service you already subscribe to, pirate it otherwise.
No. It was like reheated Matrix leftovers with no flavour.
It felt intentionally bad tbh. I’m second guessing my preferred interpretation of it now that there’s a 5th one coming out though.
Solid, not breathtaking, but solid.
To enjoy it you have to be a bit meta about the whole experience. So it kinda works in that regard, but if you showed it to someone who knew nothing of the matrix it would be incomprehensible.