JoBlo.com is in Las Vegas at this year’s CinemaCon, where the first footage and a title for The Matrix 4 made their debut. To begin, the official title for the new film is The Matrix: Resurrections (it turns out the rumors were true).
According to our boots on the ground at the event, Chris Bumbray, the trailer begins with Neil Patrick Harris talking to Keanu Reeves’ Neo (we assume?) who is now back to his Thomas Anderson alter ego and has been dreaming of The Matrix. He then experiences deja vu when he meets Trinity. “Have we met?” she asks. Seemingly, Neo doesn’t know that he’s back in The Matrix (or is he?). In terms of Neo’s appearance, he’s rocking something of a John Wick look. He’s got long hair and a beard. Does he have a knack for making headshots? We’ll have to wait and see. Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” begins to play, and that’s when we get a shot of young Morpheus (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II).
Shortly thereafter, we’re able to spot Jessica Henwick, who seems to be playing a Trinity-esque figure. After this, the trailer goes into action overdrive. We see a great redux of the famous “I know kung-fu” fight from the first film, only with the young Morpheus against the older version of Neo, who fights WAY more aggressively now and seems better able to control The Matrix than he did when first awakened in the first film. Of course, the timeline is strange, with a younger Morpheus and an older Neo, but I’m sure they’ll explain what’s going on soon enough. Lana Wachowski doesn’t seem to have missed a beat directing action, that’s for sure.
The Matrix: Resurrections is scheduled to arrive in theaters on December 22.
There is no word as to whether the trailer is coming to platforms other than CinemaCon, but you can be sure that we’ll be there when it drops.
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