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Warner Bros Announces New Matrix Sequel: The Matrix Resurrection

Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

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Tuesday was the tenth anniversary of The Matrix, and Joel Silver made a surprise appearance tonight at ShoWest to announce that Warner Bros has officially greenlit a fourth Matrix Film. Produced by Silver, based on a treatment from The Wachowski Brothers, and directed by James McTeigue, The Matrix: Resurrection will be written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.

Resurrection is expected to explore more religious philosophy and explain the meaning of life. When an evil virus which is injected into the Matrix mainframe by a renegade group of hackers lead by Robert Pattinson, Neo must return from “the dead” to stop the mass corruption and travel back in time to save the world. Keanu Reeves has not yet signed on to the project, but Silver is hopeful that he will return alongside some of the other trilogy cast members, also not signed. Sam Worthington is on board to play the computer virus named Sloof Lirpa.

McTeigue plans to shoot the film, the first of two new trilogies (yes, six films), using an advanced performance capture process similar to the tech used on James Cameron’s Avatar. Silver also claims that the Wachowski’s have created a new rig called “the Bullettime Globe” which will allow the camera to move around an actor, in real time, in any direction, in a full 360 degree sphere. Take a look at the first MUST SEE concept image from the presentation, available after the jump.

April Fools…

The above story is a complete fabrication…

… sorry guys, had to do it :)

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Comments

Konrad

...april fools?

The second two were pretty poor, but with the amount of time between then and now maybe they'll step up and give us something as good as the original.

FrodO

read the virus name backwards.

Amr Hassan

april fools for sure..

mike

april fools definitely, the image is called matrix 4 fan art....

James

umm yeah april fools.....the virus is sloof lirpa? read that backwards guys... funny though, had me convinced till i re-read the name lol

kfizz

Well in most places it is but the west coast.

Boogie

Sloof lirpa, haha, but if your going to do an April Fools, at least post the story April 1st

sebastian

Sloof Lirpa = April Fools.

Puh. No-one but the Wachowskis should be able to touch the Matrix franchise.

Michestellar

Once I got to the "Sloof Lirpa" bit, I pretty much thought, "Okay, even that is too much for a Matrix film." Good one, though. :)

xblurr

Um, Robert Pattinson as a hacker pretty much signaled my April Fools radar.

I hate that douche.

Rich

nice try with this one

DrChicago

Good one Peter! Slashfilm, always reliable for quality comedy! But honestly I was cracking up when I thought about the idea of this actually happening.

Not impressed

sloof lirpa... too easy

Sync

An April Fools I would believe: Alan Moore's review of Watchmen

kfizz

Like i dont know what day it is.

AleNade

Sounds awesome! I hope Pattinson brings lots of viewers. I just hope this movie's as good as The Matrix: Revolution. They should do that slick morphing from real actors to awesome CG actors a lot more too, that was sweet.

mitchFTFuture

haha, I got a little excited since the story was posted today. But then I saw the name, Sloof Lirpa, then realized that no matter where you go you can never escape this damned holiday!

Sathan

At first I was happy that they were making a 4th matrix movie for about 30 seconds. Then I realized that the last 2 matrix movies sucked and I was sad. Of course now I realized that sloof lirpa was april fools spelled backwards and I'm happy again.

sanyo

Thank God it's just April Fools. The world does not need another disappointing sequel to The Matrix.

Justin Craig

The last thing this world needs is another Matrix film. Thank God this is an April Fools joke. Then again, it wouldn't be entirely bad if they made something good to compensate for Reloaded and Revolutions, which were terrible. Let's just hope that if they do, they'll keep Robert Pattinson out of it.

Moi

GOT ME!

/trix

[youtube 4F1caijn21Q&fmt=18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F1caijn21Q&fm... youtube]

super_aj

awesome!

Alex

Oh that crazy team of Kurtzman/Orci, they're writing everything! (Maybe even this! .... Probably not though...)

freemachine

Ha-ha, nice one! But don't put it past Hollywood to actually try this.

Happy_Evil_Dude

You didn't fool me but at least this was a damn better effort than last year's Marvel bought DC and are planning a Spider-Man Vs Superman movie. So, good job I guess.

Andrew

I still remember biting on the 'Spider-man vs. Superman' story /film ran last year. This time around, I was slightly more prepared. Nice job fellas.

YazzyDream

rofl. Lmao, scared the crap outta me for a second. I was seriously about to be like "WHAT?! ROB PATTISON? VIRAL INFECTION? WHHAAA?

Gordon Freeman

I started laughing at the Robert Pattinson part, and became suspicious.

Gordon Freeman

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b4zz4

i was well made up when i read it. didnt even realise it was a joke till i read these comments :(:(

AliC

Ideally an aprils fool should be posted on April the first

Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 at 10:27 pm

acslater

thhhhhaaaaaank goodness

K...

I actually thought that xmen was the april fools joke, this was less believeable

metulmike

I've been falling for these

Craig

Not remotely realistic----- it would have to be a reboot! ;)

BassMastaMike

Aww man, I didn't even have time to believe it, cause when I clicked on the link, it just said April Fools.

No fun :p

DisembarkedOne

thank god its a joke.

jobless

i do hope this is the last april fools thing on slashfilm, its very hard to not believe this site when it posts stuff.

MonTheBuds

I guess the sad thing is that nobody would be surprised if this was true (the reboot/sequel part, not the Pattinson, Sloof Lirpa, Bullettime Globe part)

MonTheBuds

I guess the sad thing is that nobody would be surprised if this was true (the reboot/sequel part, not the Pattinson, Sloof Lirpa, Bullettime Globe part)

GregoryV

You guys are assholes, totally got me. LOL.

gooso

lol i figured it was. great one though. it had me going haha

starscream9289

This is crazy! Not the joke, but the fact that I actually taught about this back when the third Matrix came out. I had a couple of Matrix toys and a huge imagination back then so I created my own fourth Matrix film and I actually called it "Matrix Resurrection"!

So when I read the headline I actually taught "HOLY CRAP! I predicted the future!"

shameless

nerd alert

edc

bwahaha!

danield6

*Plays the Looney Tunes cartoon ending tune*

http://www.televisiontunes.com/Looney_Tunes_-_End...

Waingro

Sam Worthington is on board to play the computer virus named Sloof Lirpa...

Still laughing.

Chrys

Epic april fools. I believed it up to Robert Pattinson

Brockdiesel

I'm so glad it fake. That would have been the worst movie since Speed Racer.

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