When the Wachowski Sisters finished the original Matrix trilogy over two decades ago, they had no intention of making another film. But that didn’t stop Warner Bros. from trying to keep the money flowing in, hiring writers to draft screenplays as the siblings turned down offer after offer. Eventually, Warner got its way, releasing the 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections, but it 𝔉was only directed by one sister – Lilly Wachowski publicly said that she was not interested in “going backward”, and that personal trauma made her very unwilling to revisit that part of her life.
Lana Wachowski, the other half of the duo, directed and co-wrote the film, though she apparently considered abandoning it too when production was halted by the pandemic. The film was eventually finished in 2020, and the final product had a very pointed message that it practically hammered into audiences' brains. One quote from the film made it abundantly clear how she felt: “They took your story, something that meant so much to people like me, and turned it into something trivial. That’s what the Matrix does. It weaponizes every idea. Every dream. Everything that’s important to us.” Warner Bros. was so greedy for a Matrix movie because it was guaranteed to fill seats that it didn’t care that a sequel didn’t make sense.
A sequel to Resurrections, then, makes even less sense, but that’s what we’re getting. The fifth Matrix movie, whatever it ends up being called, has been formally announced by Warner Bros. It will be directed by Drew Goddard, who directed Cabin in the Woods and Bad Times at the El Royale. No shade to Goddard, who is a talented director known for subverting tropes and might be able to somehow find a way to make a Matrix sequel that doesn’t spit in the face of its forebears. In Goddard’s statement, he said, “Lan🌄a and Lilly’s exquisite artistry inspires me on a daily basis, and I am beyond grateful for the chance to tell stories in their world”, which is sweet, at the very least.
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But the very idea of another sequel, especially one not helmed by a Wachowski, is completely at odds with the franchise. Granted, Lana will be the executive producer on this 🍨new film, but that’s a huge departure from her previous role as the co-writer and director 𝕴of The Matrix Resurrections.
The Matrix is so beloved because of the 🧔Wachowskis’ vision and the incredibly personal trans metaphor they were weaving into the subtext, and Lana was right – Warner Bros. is trying to commodify the most intimate of things to them and expand it beyond them so it can keep making money.
Not only does The Matrix franchise not need a new movie, but a new movie actively devalues the series. It misses the entire point – the trans allegory, the completeness of its story, and that nostalgia shouldn’t be monetised. In greenlighting yet another movie despite Resurrections being a commercial and critical failure, Warner Bros. has turned The Matrix into exactly the thing it wa൲s criticising in the first place. And anybody♊ with a passing knowledge of the series and an adequate level of media literacy can see that clear as day. Nobody wants The Matrix 5, but we’re getting it anyway.
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