On the eve of the new millennium, a new science-fiction action film premiered that would change the genre, fashion, and the ubiquity of philosophical discussion forever. Buoyed by their script for the Sylvester Stallone film Assassins and their directing debut Bound, Lilly and Lana Wachowski were given a three-picture deal with Warner Bros. Their project? The Matrix. The plan for the film was too big, dense, and ambitious for studio executives to understand, so the directors hired comic book artists to create a 600-page shot-by-shot storyboard for the film that the studio still didn’t understand, but at least they could see what they were getting. The film became one of the biggest grossers of the year and spawned three sequels. Between Christmas and New Year’s, The Dryden is presenting the entire series on our big screen for the first time.
Events in this Series
The Matrix
The Matrix at 25 Computer programmer Thomas Anderson (hacker code: Neo) is contacted by a mysterious woman named Trinity who informs him he is in danger and that she knows he has been plagued by multiple references to The Matrix in his illicit online journeys.
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix at 25 The resurrected Neo and Trinity now run ops in The Matrix while also preparing for battle in the real world, stationed in the human haven of Zion.
The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix at 25 Shot concurrently with The Matrix Reloaded, and released just six months later, Revolutions picks up where the last film ended, with Agent Smith having infiltrated the humans and Neo abandoned and trapped in the Matrix.
The Matrix Resurrections
The Matrix at 25 Eighteen years after the last film, Warner Bros. asked for another Matrix film and Lana Wachowski, working on her own this time, fashioned a script that not only brought back the original characters but commented on the extension of intellectual property in the twenty-first century.