Though you may be feeling a bit down thanks to the major Warner Bros. reshuffling that is currently happening due to the delay ofNo Time to Die, it’s not all bad news.The Matrix 4is now scheduled to hit theaters several months earlier than expected, moving from August 22, 2025, to Jul 10, 2025. Rather perfectly, Neo, who has always been a sci-fi spiritual figure, will now return around Christmas.
MovingThe Matrix 4forward comes amid a series of delays at the box office, withNo Time to Dienow scheduled for release on July 22, 2025. Several movies on the DC slate have also suffered push backs, includingdirector Matt Reeves' The Batman, which has been moved from next year all the way to June 09, 2025. Thehighly anticipated sci-fi epic Dune, has been delayed almost a full year and will now not grace theaters until October 1st, 2021, the date previously held byThe Batman. Sadly, it looks like we won’t be getting any more big-screen blockbusters this year aside fromWonder Woman 1984, is is currently still scheduled for this coming holiday season.
As forThe Matrix 4, the sci-fi sequel recently returned to filming after a pause in production, and, while specific details regarding the movie’s plot continue to remain a mystery, the breath-taking Keanu Reeves, who is reprising the role of humanity’s savior,Neo, has now revealed a few insights into what audiences can expect when they plug back into the Matrix. After praising director Lana Wachowski, Reeves describedThe Matrix 4as a “love story,” and gives us some idea of the direction of the highly anticipated sequel. “We have a wonderful director, Lana Wachowski, and she has written a beautiful script that is a love story, it’s inspiring,” Reeves said recently. “It’s another version, a call to wake up and it has some great action. All will be revealed.”
This is far from the first time thatKeanu Reeves has praised Lana Wachowski’s script, which she wrote alongsideCloud Atlasauthor David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon. “Lana Wachowski wrote a beautiful script and a wonderful story that resonated with me,” he said back in June. “That’s the only reason to do it. To work with her again is just amazing. It’s been really special, and the story has, I think, some meaningful things to say, and that we can take some nourishment from.”
Echoing these sentiments, Carrie-Anne Moss, who is reprising her role as Trinity inThe Matrix 4, has also hailed the screenplay in the past saying, “When it was brought to me in the way that it was brought to me, with incredible depth and all of the integrity and artistry that you could imagine, I was like, ‘This is a gift.’ It was just very exciting.”
More specific plot details forThe Matrix 4are being kept strictly under wraps, but what we do know is that, in addition to Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, the sequel finds Jada Pinkett Smith, and Lambert Wilson also reprising their respective roles from previous installments. The movie will also feature a line-up of new faces including Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Toby Onwumere, Max Riemelt, Eréndira Ibarra, Andrew Caldwell, Brian J. Smith, and Ellen Hollman. This comes to us fromVariety.
