Our first look at The Matrix Resurrections is coming in a trailer this Thursday, September 9 – and the movie has brought back the classic WhatIsTheMatrix.com website to offer teaser videos featuring first movie footage.
The first trailer will be dropped at 6am Pacific / 9am Eastern / 2pm UK / 11pm AEST, and you can expect it to feature some or all of what we heard coming out from CinemaCon last month. The title and contents of a first trailer were revealed at the event, and seemed to show a futuristic world in which Neo's past is being suppressed by daily intake of blue pills, a possible appearance from a young Morpheus, and the series' requisite martial arts action.
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— The Matrix Resurrections (@TheMatrixMovie) September 7, 2021
The unexpected return of WhatIsTheMatrix.com is offering generated teaser videos to those that visit, including the first footage of the film, narration from the stars, and a choice between red and blue pills. Heading to the website and picking a pill will generate one of what Warner Bros. says are 180,000 possible teaser videos for the movie, every one of which will include film footage and narration.
For those that don't remember, WhatIsTheMatrix.com was the website that launched with the original Matrix movie and included multiple hidden pages accessed by codes, as well as games and comics based on the film. It was an early experiment into viral web marketing for a film – the new take on the old site launches into a very different internet landscape.
The Matrix Resurrections is due to be released on December 22, and sees stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss return as Neo and Trinity respectively, although Laurence Fishburne won't be joining them as Morpheus. The film includes returning franchise cast members Jada Pinkett-Smith, Daniel Bernhardt, and Lambert Wilson, while newcomers include Neil Patrick-Harris, Christina Ricci, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Priyanka Chopra, and Jonathan Groff.
While Lana Wachowski returns to direct, original trilogy co-director Lilly Wachowski has explained that she felt the idea of going back to the franchise was "emotionally unfulfilling."
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