Drew Goddard, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Martian, has been set to write and direct a new Matrix movie at Warner Bros.

I started rolling my eyes before I saw Drew Goddard’s name, who apparently approached WB with his own idea. He is an incredibly gifted storyteller and I believe his passion for this world is sincere. I’m pretty excited to see what he has in mind.

  • @loopedcandleEnglish
    12•7 months ago

    I know people are slamming this idea, but a prequel concept that explores how the Matrix was really started - that sounds super interesting to me. The ethical and moral issues in the first film are neat and part of thousands of intro philosophy classes across America. There is potential for a good story there that doesn’t become a Hollywood hackfest. . .

    But it probably won’t. It’ll be a dumb money grab pulling nostalgia dollars from early 40-somethings.

        • Stepos VenznyEnglish
          4•7 months ago

          If you’re not familiar, you should know going in that it’s an anthology of shorts by different writers and directors. All the advertising I remember focused on the first short because the CGI was so good for twenty years ago and that segment is boring as hell from every other standpoint, so just remember while you’re enduring it that other shorts are coming and most of the movie is actually worth seeing.

    • gregorumEnglish
      13•7 months ago

      i thought it was a hilarious self-satire of not only the Matrix franchise but of soft-reboot sequels in general and a commentary about how all of the beating-of-dead-horses needs to stop, and i loved it. i laughed through the whole thing. i felt that it was a final nail in the coffin for any more Matrix films, and i have no clue how they’d possibly make another.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•7 months ago

        I have no idea how that script got past the studio. It couldn’t have been more on-the-nose.

    • @Anyolduser
      1•7 months ago

      Yeah, but if everyone is really cool about it maybe we can all pretend it didn’t happen.

        • @[email protected]
          1•7 months ago

          They sure did! They even said “welcome to this place, I’ll show you evraythang!” What a nice group of people.

    • interolivary
      1•7 months ago

      … does USENET count as a forum experience? I think mine is from the Core War news group from like '90 or '91

      • modifier
        1•7 months ago

        By the power vested in me as the person responding to you I would say Usenet counts.

        I forgot all about Usenet until I got back into sailing the high seas recently and let me tell ya, that is not the Usenet I remember.

  • Stepos VenznyEnglish
    4•7 months ago

    Seeing The Good Place on his resume is the most reassuring thing I could have hoped to see for this movie. I don’t want anyone making a Matrix sequel who couldn’t have equally made a Speed Racer sequel and I think he has the chops for that.

    • @[email protected]OP
      3•7 months ago

      He has a pretty versatile body of work, and I think one of the biggest throughlines is that he’s very intuitive about how to approach a given story or idea. I’m not a huge Daredevil comics fan, but his take on the character for the Netflix show (at least the first season when he was involved) is about as near perfect an adaptation as I could possibly imagine (due in no small part also to Charlie Cox’s masterclass performance).

    • @[email protected]
      2•7 months ago

      I love the Matrix. I will always be open to more franchise content, but I am unsure if anyone will have anything as good as the original trilogy and accompanying media from the early 2000s.

      • finthechat
        1•7 months ago

        Me too. But after seeing that travesty of a 4th movie that they pooped out, my enthusiasm has cooled down a lot.