Laurence Fishburne will not take another trip to the rabbit hole. The actor told New York Magazine that he was “not invited” to miss his iconic role in the sequel “The Matrix” by Lana Wachowski.
‘I’m not invited. Maybe that will write me another play. I wish her well. I hope it’s great, ”Fishburne told the publication.
Of his role as Morpheus in the original “The Matrix” trilogy, Fishburne said: “It’s probably the role where I’ll remember best, which’s great; it’s not the only one where I’ll be remembered, “What’s better. What I get with him is that I have Darth Vader in this hand, and I have Obi-Wan in that hand. I have Bruce Lee, I have shuffled Muhammad Ali in there, and I have kung fu.”
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The plot, and details of the as yet untitled sequel have been kept under wraps, but it is expected to continue from the original trilogy. It’s unclear where it would repair, but one reason the red pill, blue pill that Fishburne is carrying, would not appear in “The Matrix 4” may be because he died of gunshot wounds in “The Matrix Online”. , “a multilingual online role-playing game that blessed the Wachowskis as a continuation of the storyline of the films. Although popular belief suggests that his death was falsified.
Lana Wachowski directed “The Matrix” sequel from a script she penned with Aleksandar Hemon (“Sense8”) and David Mitchell (“Sense8”). Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Jada Pinkett-Smith reprise their roles from the original trilogy, and the film has added big names such as Jonathan Groff, Priyanka Chopra, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Neil Patrick Harris.
In June, as a result of delays in the coronavirus shutdown, Warner Bros. said. that it stopped the 2021 release of the film, and pushed it until spring 2022.
The three previous films in the franchise – “The Matrix” from 1999, “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions,” both from 2003 – have earned more than $ 1.6 billion in the global office and were all top- 10 domestic hits in their respective years of release.
“It’s the old story in a modern context,” Fishburne of The Matrix said. “It is the One, the Christ, the Buddha, the Deity, the fully realized is told through the digital age.”
