Because everything old is new again, Warner Bros. is currently readying a reboot of one of the greatest action movies ever made:
The Matrix. Indeed,
THR reports that the studio is in the early stages of developing a reboot of the groundbreaking 1999 action sci-fi film. The studio is in talks with screenwriter
Zak Penn to pen a treatment as they work out exactly how this reboot might work, and they already have their eye on
Michael B. Jordan as their potential leading man—although
a lot of things have to come together first before this actually becomes real.
The report notes that the involvement of the
Wachowski siblings is unknown at the moment. Sisters Lana and Lily Wachowski wrote and directed the first
Matrix movie and, spurred by its commercial and critical success, got the backing from Warner Bros. to write and direct a pair of wildly ambitious sequels that were shot back-to-back.
The Matrix Reloaded and
The Matrix Revolutions weren’t as well received either by audiences or critics, but credit where credit’s due—the Wachowskis got
ambitious and refused to simply rehash the plot of the first film in its follow-ups, resulting in a pair of films that, while divisive, are certainly different.
