a fifth Matrix film is going on

There’s one other Matrix film within the works. Warner Bros. simply greenlit a fifth installment of the saga, . Nonetheless, neither Lana Wachowski or Lilly Wachowski will probably be dealing with directing duties. That honor falls to Drew Goddard, who tailored The Martian right into a screenplay and directed the criminally underrated Cabin within the Woods. He is additionally writing the script.

Goddard reduce his tooth writing episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Misplaced, amongst others — you possibly can say he is aware of his method round style content material. Lana Wachowski will probably be on board as an government producer, so there will probably be some enter from one of many franchise’s unique creators.

There’s no phrase as to what the movie will probably be about, however Warner Bros. says that Goddard got here to the corporate with a “new concept that all of us imagine could be an unimaginable approach to proceed the Matrix world.” Goddard added that the unique movies encourage him each day and that he’s “past grateful for the prospect to inform tales” in that world.

Warner Bros. can also be being cagey as to which, if any, forged members could be returning. The unique trilogy featured Keanu Reeves, Carrie Anne-Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving and Jada Pinkett Smith. Most of those actors returned for 2021’s The Matrix Resurrections, with one story-based exception.

Talking of The Matrix Resurrections, it obtained combined evaluations from each critics and audiences. We beloved the movie, going so far as to name it good, however admitted . That’s par for the course with this franchise. Each single Matrix film past the primary one is divisive. We’ll have to attend and see what Goddard brings to the desk.

He’s additionally writing a movie adaptation primarily based on one other novel by The Martian scribe Andy Weir. Undertaking Hail Mary will probably be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and can star Ryan Gosling as an astronaut making an attempt to save lots of the planet from a star-eating microbe.