When one fourth Matrix film finally announced, the obvious conclusion is that the sisters and co-directors Lana and Lilly Wachowski both would return to the franchise. So it was quite a surprise to learn that Lana would occupy the chair of exclusive director The Matrix: Resurrections. Now Lilly Wachowski explained why she chose to leave Neo, Trinity and the others behind.
His answer is pretty simple, really: I didn’t want to.
“There was something about the idea of stepping back and being part of something I had done before that was expressly unattractive,” she said in a panel of the Association of Television Critics for her current television series at Showtime, Work in Progress (via Winter is coming). “Like, I didn’t want to go through my transition and go through this great upheaval in my life, the feeling of loss of my mother and father, to want to go back to something I had done before and a kind of “I was walking through old paths, I felt unsatisfied and really the opposite. As if I was living with those old shoes again in a way. And I didn’t want to do that.”
Lilly Wachowski made three Matrix movies; it is very reasonable that he is not interested in making a quarter of it. And, as she points out, having only publicly coming out as a trans woman in March 2016, has grown a lot since the trilogy ended. His desire to leave the past in the past and keep moving forward in his life is completely understandable. He was also very prudent in speaking on behalf of his sister and by his own decision go back to The matrix, just telling Lana that he had “different reasons” for deciding to do so Resurrections. And it’s okay too!
Former stars Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Jada Pinkett-Smith have also returned The Matrix: Resurrections, which will currently be released in theaters and on HBO Max on December 22nd. If you want to know the first images of the film, you can consult our summary here!
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