Lily Wachowski is done with The Matrix
The creator of the saga no longer wishes to “play in this sandbox”.
It will now be necessary to do Matrix without Wachowski.
Lily Wachowski, one of the two creators of the franchise, has just explained that she no longer really wanted to participate in the continuation of the adventures of Neo, Trinity and company.
Interviewed in the podcast Businessthe director was particularly clear:
“They (the studio) will always want to do something else! But personally, I don’t want to play in this sandbox anymore. I’m done with Matrix.”
A statement which, however, does not mean that she wants to bury the saga. Because a new project Matrix is well in the works, this time in the hands of Drew Goddard, the director of the hit Last Chance Project with Ryan Gosling. And he would not want to move forward without the agreement of the Wachowskis. Lily admits that maybe she could look into this Matrix 5despite everything… or not!
“Maybe there’s something going on with Drew Goddard, and he doesn’t want to move forward without our blessing… Maybe we’ll stick our noses in for a little bit, see what we think, and decide whether we want to give Drew our blessing or not. So it could happen, but it’s still very uncertain…“
As a reminder, Lana Wachowski was the only one of the two sisters to return behind the camera for Matrix Resurrectionsreleased in 2021. The film met with a mixed reception and experienced a significant commercial failure, with around $160 million in worldwide revenue, for an estimated budget of $190 million.
Since then, Warner Bros. looking to revive the franchise. Drew Goddard was responsible for writing and directing this new part, which must therefore constitute a new stage for the universe created by the Wachowskis.
It remains to be seen whether the filmmaker’s ideas will convince Lily and Lana Wachowski.
