Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are back as Neo and Trinity in The Matrix Resurrections, but Laurence Fishburne is not back in the role of Morpheus. Instead, the character is a young man played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II this time around – but this Morpheus hasn’t forgotten his past future alternative self… whatever’s going on here. In fact, he has even gotten his hands on some footage of Fishburne’s Morpheus from the original Matrix movie and has it ready to show to Neo when they meet again for the first time. You can see the clip of young Morpheus showing a clip of older Morpheus to Neo in the embed above.
The Matrix Resurrections is scheduled to reach theatres and the HBO Max streaming service on December 22.
Directed by Lana Wachowski from a screenplay she wrote with Aleksandar Hemon and David Mitchell, the film has the following synopsis:
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a physical or mental construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. And if Thomas…Neo…has learned anything, it’s that choice, while an illusion, is still the only way out of—or into—the Matrix. Of course, Neo already knows what he has to do. But what he doesn’t yet know is the Matrix is stronger, more secure and more dangerous than ever before. Déjà vu.
Reeves and Moss are joined in the cast by fellow returning stars Jada Pinkett Smith and Daniel Bernhardt. Along with Abdul-Mateen, the franchise newcomers include Jessica Henwick, Christina Ricci, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Eréndira Ibarra, Jonathan Groff, Andrew Caldwell, Ellen Hollman, Brian J. Smith, Max Riemelt, and Chris Sean Reid.
Wachowski, Grant Hill, and James McTeigue produced The Matrix Resurrections, while Terry Needham, Garrett Grant, and Bruce Berman serve as executive producers.
Lana Wachowski wrote and directed the initial Matrix trilogy with her sister Lilly Wachowski, but Lilly is not involved with this one.