When was matrix movie made

While the collection of animated short films are housed within the anthology, the individual shorts take place at various points along the Matrix timeline. And, although a couple of The Animatrix stories take place before the events of the first Matrix film, we suggest watching The Matrix before diving into The Animatrix in order to fully understand and appreciate the short stories.

As for the feature films, the Wachowskis have returned for a fourth installment of The Matrix , starring Keanu Reeves and Christina Ricci , expected for release in December of this year.

See you in cyberspace! Part I and Part II of The Second Renaissance tell the origin story of the computer matrix featured in the film trilogies, circa the year , including the creation of artificial intelligence and the events leading up to the enslavement of humans by machines.

A Detective Story mixes anime and classic film noir while following Detective Ash in his pursuit within the Matrix of the ever elusive internet hacker known as Trinity, sometime after the creation of the Matrix and before she joins forces with Morpheus.

Summer Casting necessitates finding actors willing to put in months of training and do the research required by the filmmakers, specifically reading books on philosophy and evolutionary psychology.

It also means persuading Hong Kong fight coordinator Yuen Woo-Ping to rearrange his schedule and work with actors untrained in fighting. Some action movies have elaborate effects, some have martial arts, some have gunplay, but The Matrix would have to have all of the above. And for it to work, it would have to nail them.

Fall Months before shooting, training begins for the main cast. One problem: Reeves is already recovering from a herniated disc. Further complicating matters: Moss will sprain her ankle and Weaving will need surgery when he injures his hip.

March Filming begins in Sydney after a Buddhist ceremony. It is, by all accounts, a demanding but harmonious process. And though the film goes over schedule, Warner Bros. August Filming ends and post-production begins. The Wachowskis will stay in Australia until November, then continue editing the film until shortly before its release.

January 31, As part of the answer to that problem, Warner Bros. In theaters, the trailers will cryptically tell warn? You have to see it for yourself. March 31, The Matrix makes its theatrical debut on the Wednesday before Easter and it soon becomes apparent that audiences agree: They do have to see it for themselves.

Critical reception is also kind, with some notable exceptions. Meanwhile, the Wachowskis retreat to Chicago. Already publicity shy, they have a no press clause in their contract and do only limited interviews with a few major outlets, waving off talk of sequels when asked by EW. The Matrix remains one of th ose films that years after its release, fans still love to theorise over, discussing how it is a not so subtly coded message for us to take the red pill and wake up.

Others say that the world we see in The Matrix is in fact a simulation built by humans and implanted into machines, so the machines believe they have dominated humanity. As the film's Oracle states: "Everything that has a beginning has an end. It says something about generational differences that, when Keanu Reeves showed up at Microsoft's E3 conference this year, social media went wild with the news that John Wick had arrived to delight the audience.

For people my age, however, Reeves will always be more famous for his role as Neo. The Matrix is a film that holds up well to this day, but its groundbreaking achievements have been co-opted so fully into the visual language of Hollywood genre films that those same younger fans, raised on Marvel movies, may well wonder what was so special about it. Just as war movies would never be the same after Tom Hanks and co stormed Omaha beach in the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan, so The Matrix 's bullet time, stylised action and trench coats forever changed the world of sci-fi and action films.

You really had to be there to understand the cultural moment — and if you did experience it, you understand why there could have been no John Wick without Neo. Michael Coetzee, sub-editor. The Matrix has to be seen in light of what was happening at the time — in the run up to , many were convinced the world was going to collapse with the Y2K bug causing computers to crash everywhere.

The Matrix envisioned something similar, though instead of showing a planet taken back to the dark ages due to a technological collapse, it portrayed humanity as being incarcerated inside a hellish simulated reality. People were a little nervous in , and The Matrix tapped into that.

Simon Wilgress-Pipe, homepage editor. The Wachowskis hit the pre-millennial zeitgeist squarely on the head with The Matrix. The film was a snapshot of a world in transition, terrified of where that transition was taking it.

Fortunately, the fears were unfounded. The internet didn't break in , we're not all now ruled by computers, and in no way does a digitally rendered false reality govern our thoughts and actions. Well, one out of three isn't bad.

Chris Newbould, film writer. Faisal Salah. It was the film everyone talked about The impact of The Matrix upon its release cannot be understated. EPA It had a phenomenal cast Aside from the story, The Matrix was also successful because it brought a stellar cast together. Read More. Keanu Reeves had no clue about the Internet's obsession with him.