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http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/37011/matrix-reboot-development

Warner Bros. has put a reboot of The Matrix into development, according to Hollywood Reporter, and is talking to Zak Penn about writing an initial treatment. The Wachowski siblings, who wrote and directed the original, are not yet involved, according to the report, although the studio would probably want at least a blessing.

Joel Silver, who sold the rights to Warners, approached the studio about a new film, but he may not end up being associated with the reboot, if it gets made.

The film had ground-breaking aesthetics, won four Academy Awards, and was the fourth-grossing film of 1999 worldwide, so there’s quality material and a big audience to build on.

Good grief.

.. surely there must be at least one or two stories we haven't made movies of yet ?

One appreciates you watch the original now and you do find yourself smiling at the size of the phones, monitors etc etc but a reboot/remake already ?

Terrible idea. There's nowhere left for that story to go and the original still holds up very well. A reboot is totally unnecessary.

Hmm, I read they weren't talking about a reboot, but a sequel?

And...by the time this comes out (IF it does at all), it will have been 20+ years since The Matrix was in theaters?!?

Wow.

 Alpharius wrote:
And...by the time this comes out (IF it does at all), it will have been 20+ years since The Matrix was in theaters?!?

Wow.

Damn I'm old.

They should at least bring back Keanu Reeves. He hasn't aged at all.

But I agree that this sounds like a bad idea.

 welshhoppo wrote:
They should at least bring back Keanu Reeves. He hasn't aged at all.

Yeah, having just watched John Wick I agree. Reeves is a vampire.

Reboot, rather than sequel?

Seriously. Feth. Off.

There is absolutely no way whatsoever they can improve on the original, or even come close to it, and I say that with more certainty than anything I have said in my entire life.

I feel rather strongly about this.

Keanu is busy doing Bill & Ted 3 or so I've heard.

I also heard they originally wanted WIll Smith for Neo, maybe he can finally have his chance.

I hope they go off the rails and flip the script. Have the story coming from the AIs perspective, a (mostly) all powerful program battling the latest generation of hackers hanging out in the underworld, slowly starting to wonder if what it is doing is right, or even worse, necessary, probably after being told of the cyclical nature of these rebellions. Keanu can of course make random appearances, as the prophet, architect, or mysterious dude glaring through his shades at the situation, or calling.

The story arc becomes less about fighting a corrupt regime from without, but from a drone growing a conscious and figuring out what to do with it.

Otherwise.... yeah, it won't end well with a faithful remake. The Matrix has us, willingly now. People would only unplug to put selfies on Instagram, or do the Unplugged Ice Bucket challenge.

 Gitzbitah wrote:
I hope they go off the rails and flip the script. Have the story coming from the AIs perspective, a (mostly) all powerful program battling the latest generation of hackers hanging out in the underworld, slowly starting to wonder if what it is doing is right, or even worse, necessary, probably after being told of the cyclical nature of these rebellions. Keanu can of course make random appearances, as the prophet, architect, or mysterious dude glaring through his shades at the situation, or calling.

The story arc becomes less about fighting a corrupt regime from without, but from a drone growing a conscious and figuring out what to do with it.

I could get behind that.

I always thought it would be interesting to have the Agent's perspective as a focus for a movie.

 Alpharius wrote:
And...by the time this comes out (IF it does at all), it will have been 20+ years since The Matrix was in theaters?!?

Wow.

I think you mean, "Whoa."

 Necros wrote:
Keanu is busy doing Bill & Ted 3 or so I've heard.

At least his heart is in the right place. Be excellent to each other!

I would rather they made a sequel instead of a reboot. Matrix 1 was great! 2 was meh. 3 sucked donkey dong.

 kronk wrote:

 Necros wrote:
Keanu is busy doing Bill & Ted 3 or so I've heard.

At least his heart is in the right place. Be excellent to each other!

I would rather they made a sequel instead of a reboot. Matrix 1 was great! 2 was meh. 3 sucked donkey dong.

Could have pulled a Superman Returns and made it a sequel to the first Matrix film, ignoring Reloaded and Revolution.

Reboots are where franchises go to die, especially when sequels already exist. Ghostbusters was one of the more recent victims. Unfortunately, it looks like Disney will be getting a pass this time because Emma Watson and profound social commentary or something. Not like the original animation lacked the exact same social commentary.

Don't even get me started on the sequel/reboot hybrids, like Transformers, Star Wars, Jason Bourne, etc.


I think the only exception for me is Tron: Legacy, only because I fully bought in on its attempt to flaunt more recent CGI, and in that respect it blew its predecessor out of the water.

God, what's next? A Princess Bride reboot?

 AegisGrimm wrote:
God, what's next? A Princess Bride reboot?

Inconceivable!


The studio is falling victim to one of the classic blunders. The first is to never get in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well known is creating a soulless remake of a classic movie with an incredibly nerdy fanbase.


Ahahahahahha...[Beep].

Man, they really can't come up with anything new or good anymore can they. There are so many books out there that no one has made movies about, especially sci fi books.

Well, leave the original movie alone and reboot Matrix 2 and 3 that would work

Getting pretty tired of the endless reboots for so many movies. They generally seem to come across as a bad fanfic of the original too.

Lazy writers.

 Thargrim wrote:
Man, they really can't come up with anything new or good anymore can they. There are so many books out there that no one has made movies about, especially sci fi books.

Mining books for adaptations isn't making something new either. You can always go and just read the book.

 n0t_u wrote:


Lazy writers.

No, deeply risk averse studios. Same reason we have COD XXIII and Madden XC, or the 5th recut of a Tactical Squad in the same time frame as one Khorne Beserkers.

 Azreal13 wrote:

 n0t_u wrote:


Lazy writers.

No, deeply risk averse studios. Same reason we have COD XXIII and Madden XC, or the 5th recut of a Tactical Squad in the same time frame as one Khorne Beserkers.

Has been always like that, i remember in the eighties/seventies, Star wars came out and a bunch of mediocre SF movies came after that, Mad max came out and there were a slew of mediocre post apocalyptic movies, Jaws came out and there came a bunch of animal attack movies, and then there is every few years a wave of disaster movies.

My first thought upon reading this was simple:

Why?

I mean, part of what made the first Matrix film work was the surprise of it. Everyone walked in their not knowing what the Matrix was, and as Morpheus said, you can't be told, you have to see it for yourself. That surprise is basically gone now. It'd be like remaking The Sixth Sense - why bother? What could you possibly make that would be new or add to it somehow?

Now I'm not against remakes or even reboots - Hollywood has been making and remaking films for longer than most people realise (one of the best examples being the classic Pacino film Scarface... that's a remake, look it up if you don't believe me!) - but there has to be a point beyond "DC isn't working and we've kinda run Harry Potter into the ground oh God what do we do now?".

The Matrix was a mind blowing sci-fi film, both from the concepts to the new FX they used in its creation. Why try to make it again?

My thoughts exactly HBMC. Seriously Hollywood. Wtf?

Meanwhile, still no sequel to Dredd.

Can they not just remake the third film? That was awful, that film.

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
God, what's next? A Princess Bride reboot?

Inconceivable!


The studio is falling victim to one of the classic blunders. The first is to never get in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well known is creating a soulless remake of a classic movie with an incredibly nerdy fanbase.


Ahahahahahha...[Beep].

What's good enough for Sony is good enough for Warners, although maybe they could offload the franchise to Snyder so he could stop doing comicbook movies wrong (im sure he's one trick enough to get middling clever sci-fi wrong too)

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
My first thought upon reading this was simple:

Why?

I mean, part of what made the first Matrix film work was the surprise of it. Everyone walked in their not knowing what the Matrix was, and as Morpheus said, you can't be told, you have to see it for yourself. That surprise is basically gone now. It'd be like remaking The Sixth Sense - why bother? What could you possibly make that would be new or add to it somehow?

Now I'm not against remakes or even reboots - Hollywood has been making and remaking films for longer than most people realise (one of the best examples being the classic Pacino film Scarface... that's a remake, look it up if you don't believe me!) - but there has to be a point beyond "DC isn't working and we've kinda run Harry Potter into the ground oh God what do we do now?".

The Matrix was a mind blowing sci-fi film, both from the concepts to the new FX they used in its creation. Why try to make it again?

Ghostbusters was a sign that the world needs a break from reboots for a while.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
My first thought upon reading this was simple:

Why?

I mean, part of what made the first Matrix film work was the surprise of it. Everyone walked in their not knowing what the Matrix was, and as Morpheus said, you can't be told, you have to see it for yourself. That surprise is basically gone now. It'd be like remaking The Sixth Sense - why bother? What could you possibly make that would be new or add to it somehow?

Now I'm not against remakes or even reboots - Hollywood has been making and remaking films for longer than most people realise (one of the best examples being the classic Pacino film Scarface... that's a remake, look it up if you don't believe me!) - but there has to be a point beyond "DC isn't working and we've kinda run Harry Potter into the ground oh God what do we do now?".

The Matrix was a mind blowing sci-fi film, both from the concepts to the new FX they used in its creation. Why try to make it again?

100% agree, this is the most ill-conceived reboot I think I have ever heard of.

Honestly, you will never, ever manage to match the shock and awe that film created when it first appeared in cinemas.

Shameful, shameful studio execs who care nothing about artistic creation and are unable to let a good thing be.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
God, what's next? A Princess Bride reboot?

Don't you DARE give them any ideas!! They'd better not touch that piece of perfection that has literally nothing wrong with it!! It needs to remain unblemished and perfect and untainted!!