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[2getted]

Seriously? Really? I mean c'mon...

Well I guess they rebooted Mad Max and that was pretty cool and they've also rebooted Blade Runner. Godzilla has been rebooted numerous times to varying degrees of success and Star Wars has been successfully rebooted with Rouge One and The Force Awakens (although some argue that this was just a remake). So while there's money to be made on an existing and established storyline then these will keep happening.

Thankfully though this doesn't look like it is going to be a remake but instead a reboot or even possibly a spin off - whatever that turns out to be.

Now from what I can gather Keanu Reeves has reportedly said that he would only be interested if the Wachowskis were involved:

"They would have to write it and direct it. And then we'd see what the story is, but yeah, I dunno, that'd be weird, but why not?"

Now it seems that the Wachowski siblings are not involved so...
But Zak Penn is in talks to write a treatment for this. He did The Avengers, and the X-Men films X2 and The Last Stand.

Apparently Michael B. Jordan who rebooted the Rocky series with the movie Creed is to star. No idea if he is to replace Neo in a remake (bad idea), or to act as a protégé of Neo (like with Rocky in Creed), or in a totally new spin off. One rumour going around is that he will play the role of a young Morpheus - hence the spin off idea.

Michael B. Jordan with Sylvester Stallone in Creed

Here's an interesting take on the whole idea...

[VincentLupo]

I was never all that impressed with the first trilogy.

[ctaulbee]

I have little faith in any new film added to this series regardless of who makes it being very appealing.

I'm a huge fan of the series and watch the films regularly, the story was pretty complete, they really cover the ins and outs of AI and the possibility of how that code structure could be depicted in a humanly relatable way. I don't see where they left much room to expand that without backtracking or resorting to a re-telling the same things in perhaps new ways, neither of which would interest me.

About the only new place they have left to go, is the one they touched on very slightly in the trilogy, that being "virtual machines" or the "machines within machines" concept which means The Matrix is actually layers of AI reality, the question then becomes how many layers deep are you from actual reality?

To simplify that some; for example one "could" say the entire "Matrix Trilogy" was contained in a "program sub-routine" designed to handle the idea of "control" as a "function" via a variable called "choice", which relates to the main theme of the film and all they really did was "bumble around inside" that one program branch and no one was ever truly "unplugged" from anything... just made to think they were but were in truth just in a deeper area of the main code the entire time, meaning no one escaped from anything.

Inception tried that angle in dreams with IMO limited success I don't see AI being any easier to sell it in myself, guess we will just have to wait and see.

I think even as well as it is told, it's still a stretch for non-programmers to grasp the entire concept of the films anyway, not to any real degree of understanding as far as "the why" behind much of it.

They did a good job of making it watchable though, even if the technical aspects of it are not directly relatable to non-nerds lol.

[chouette]

I've seen the trilogy many times and enjoyed them, or maybe I just enjoyed Keanu Reeves, lol

CT might be correct though, you almost need to be a nerd to understand the whole concept, and quite frankly CT, you are not helping with that description of what is the Matrix, even when you try to simplify it, LOL

Now, would I watch another one if they ever make it? Yessiry! I'll simply invite my nurdy son to watch it with me and he can explain the whole movie just like he did with all the other three!

[Fogdude]

I'll have to admit that the Matrix series was another of those that I didn't fully appreciate the first time I watched it. There are many films that hit me that way, I guess because I don't watch films with an analytic eye. I just watch them to escape reality for a bit, like most, I suspect. I also fall asleep in them if they can't keep my attention. That's what happened with the first Matrix film. But, I tried it again, months later &, as CT pointed out, the AI aspect of it fully sunk in & I was soon captivated. I'll give a new one a shot, but like others, I'm not holding my breath.

[bankska22]

If it is good, I'm in. Though I think it's a bit too early for a reboot.