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The newest trailer for upcoming sci-fi sequel The Matrix Resurrections has been unveiled, and things are about to get (even more) confusing. Rather than answering any of the lingering questions currently lingering like splinters in all our minds, the brief-yet-mindblowing trailer for The Matrix Resurrections decides instead to ask many more while making everything supremely meta, splicing the bulk of new footage with scenes from The Matrix past.
Where the original trilogy was all about choice, it appears that The Matrix Resurrections will focus on change, and the lack thereof, as Trinity saying “a déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix, it happens when they change something” from the first The Matrix plays throughout the new footage. Familiar moments from the franchise then play out with new footage merging over the top, revealing how much The Matrix Resurrections will rhyme with the journey that has come before, all while hopefully allowing for something new to be uncovered.
While very little regarding plot is revealed in the latest trailer, a line at the very end may have given us some insight into why so many moments from The Matrix Resurrections are so similar to those from the previous movies, as well as explaining how Neo and Trinity have been brought back to life. At the trailer’s end, we hear Keanu Reeves’ Neo asking “why use old code to make something new,” which suggests that this rebooted version of the Matrix may have been created using the original code, overlapping it, much like the footage shown here. Thus, with old code comes old heroes, allowing Keanu Reeves’ The One and Carrie Anne-Moss’ Trinity to be resurrected. So, let the speculation begin.
Many had theorized that The Matrix Resurrections would wipe prior sequels, Reloaded and Revolutions, from canon, but this is clearly far from the case, with the fourth movie instead seemingly having a much more intriguing relationship with its predecessors. The new trailer echoes some of what writer David Mitchell, who co-wrote the script alongside director Lana Wachowski, recently revealed, describing the movie as “certainly not yet one more sequel,” and declaring that it will attempt to bring something fresh to the sci-fi action blockbuster. “I saw the film in Berlin in September. It’s really good,” he began. “I cannot tell you what this film is about, but I could explain what it is not. It’s certainly not yet one more sequel, but something autonomous that contains however the three Matrix that preceded in a really ingenious way. It’s a very beautiful and weird creation. It also achieved a couple of things that we do not see in action films, meaning it subverts the rules of blockbusters.”
An official synopsis for The Matrix Resurrections reads, “In a world of two realities – everyday life and what lies behind it – Thomas Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more,” the logline reads. “Choice, while an illusion, is still the only way in or out of the Matrix, which is stronger, more secure, and more dangerous than ever before.” Produced, co-written, and directed by Lana Wachowski, The Matrix Resurrections is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures in movie theaters on December 22, 2021, and will also stream digitally on HBO Max in the United States for a month beginning on that same date.
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