Currently doing the press tour for the rather brilliant Project Hail Mary, writer Drew Goddard has dropped some more info on the fifth Matrix movie, which he is currently developing and, perhaps more importantly, he addresses Keanu Reeves’ return – or lack of. Sort of.
Back on March 1st, two years after he was announced as writing the fifth movie in the franchise, Goddard confirmed that he was ‘still working on it’. but now he gives a bit more info on his process of returning to that cyber world that shook up cinema in 1999 and pretty much stole the summer from Star Wars.
“I can’t say too much, because we’re still in the stage of writing it,” Goddard says.
TIDBIT:
Back in 2015, Goddard was working on Sinister Six movie set in the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man universe, but sadly, it never came to be and Goddard gives a little background into whay that was: “I had a big Spider-Man movie about the Sinister Six go down because of the Sony hack,” he says. “My office was right on the lot, and I saw the FBI swarm in and the helicopters fly over the studio. I was sad about it, but there was literally nothing I could do to change the course of events. I suppose it was better than if they hadn’t liked the script.”
“I need to give myself space to find the best story. I think the approach will be the way I approach anything, which is, do I love it? And I love what Lana and Lilly Wachowski did with those movies. They mean so much to me and I feel like they’ve had a profound impact on my creative voice. I take this responsibility very seriously. I feel the weight of wanting to do right by the fans, wanting to do right by the creators and wanting to do right for myself as a fan.”
With the awful fourth movie in the series, The Matrix Resurrections, arriving in the middle of the covid madness, it promised so much with the return of Reeves as Neo and Carrie-Ann Moss as Trinity, but sadly, that was where the good ended and everything else was pretty terrible. However, it seems that Goddard didn’t feel the same way: “It certainly resonated with me. When I watched the movie, I was deeply moved. It may be the most emotional of the of the four.”
Agree to disagree on that one, sir.
Drew Goddard confirms he’s still working on the new Matrix movie
However, no matter how bad (or good) the fourth movie was, fans want to know if Reeves will be back for his movie, to which Goddard replied: “I can’t speak to that.”
Dammit!
I’m excited to see what Goddard does with The Matrix, given his writing and/or directing of great movies such as Cloverfield, Cabin in the Woods, The Martian, and now Project Hail Mary and The Matrix is certainly a franchise, a universe, that cried out for different wrters and creatives to get involved, giving it their unique fingerprints on the wider tapestry.
Anyway, thoughts? I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em all!
Drew Goddard still confident his Sinister Six movie will happen
Source: Variety
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