First look of The Matrix Resurrections unveiled before trailer release

By Bollywood Hungama News Network -

September 8, 2021 - 2:38 PM IST

Warner Bros has launched an innovative website in advance of the release of the first trailer for The Matrix Resurrections. The interactive website- ‘WhatIsTheMatrix.com’ features a widely divergent first look of the newest installment of the 22-year-old franchise.

First look of The Matrix Resurrections unveiled before trailer release

The users are greeted with the simple choice first presented in 1999’s The Matrix. Click on the blue pill, and stick to the reality you’ve known your whole life; click on the red pill, and signal that you’re ready to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Each choice presents users with two different angles on what appears to be the central story in Resurrections (as first teased to exhibitors during CinemaCon in August).

Keanu Reeves’ Neo is back inside the Matrix, taking blue pills and seeing a therapist played by Neil Patrick Harris, until a man portrayed by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II steps into Neo’s life and gets him to see that his reality is just a mirage. Users who click on the blue pill hear a voiceover by Harris’ character saying, “you’ve lost your capacity to discern reality from fiction,” before urging the user to accept that their reality is real, as the current time flashes on the screen and Harris reads it aloud, saying, “anything else is just your mind playing tricks on you.”

Users who click on the red pill hear Abdul-Mateen’s voice telling them that while they believe it’s the current time again, with Abdul-Mateen eerily reading the time aloud “that couldn’t be further from the truth.” In both the scenarios, each time a user clicks on a pill, the footage changes slightly as a series of quick-cut shots from “Resurrections” flashes on the screen.

Some of the shots include: Reeves’ Neo swallowing a blue pill while a much older, balder man appears in his reflection, a shot of Neo’s pill bottle, prescribed to his Matrix alter ego Thomas Anderson. The medication is called “Ontolofloxin,” a clever tweak on the franchise’s exploration of ontology, i.e. the nature of being. Abdul-Mateen’s character staring at himself in the mirror. Abdul-Mateen’s character materializing out of…something…somewhere…somehow. A new character played by Jessica Henwick (“Game of Thrones”), who appears to be another soldier in the fight against the machines. A man who appears to be Neo taking a terrifying step off a very tall building, in what seems to be a test of his reality.

Co-written, and directed by Lana Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Jada Pinkett Smith reprise their roles from previous films in the series, where they are joined by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Christina Ricci. The film will be a joint production by Village Roadshow Pictures and Venus Castina Productions and is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures theatrically on December 22, 2021. It will also stream digitally on the ad-free tier of HBO Max in the United States for a month beginning on that same date.

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