Yahya Abdul-Mateen II ( Watchmen, Candyman) and Iron Fist’s Jessica Henwick appear to be the new co-leads, working with a delightful set of new skills and heavy artillery. The Matrix Resurrections is adding plenty of new faces to the franchise. Fishburne told Collider this year, “I am not in the next Matrix movie, and you’d have to ask Lana Wachowski why, because I don’t have an answer for that.” As hard as it is to imagine a Matrix film without Fishburne, the answer may lie in the plot of Resurrections. As for Fishburne, the actor, surprisingly, was never approached for the new movie. In Weaving’s case, scheduling conflicts prevented him from appearing, which raises a few questions about Neo’s role in the film without his opposite. The most obvious omissions from the line-up so far are Hugo Weaving’s iconic baddie, Agent Smith, and Laurence Fishburne’s equally inimitable Morpheus. While there is speculation that other familiar faces might appear, they’ve yet to be announced. A couple of smaller supporting characters will also return: Daniel Bernhardt reprises his role as Agent Johnson from The Matrix Reloaded, and Lambert Wilson returns as the trafficker of information, the Merovingian, from Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Carrie-Anne Moss also returns as Trinity, and Jada Pinkett Smith is back as Niobe, though she isn’t in the trailer. The beloved actor returns as Neo, this time rocking his signature John Wick look. It wouldn’t be The Matrix without Keanu Reeves. Even with all there is to see in the new trailer, so many questions still remain. Of course, these mind games wouldn’t pack nearly the same punch without glorious Wachowski-stylized action, which now looks inspired in part by the Keanu Reeves–starring John Wick films (ironically, the work of fight choreographer Chad Stahelski, who doubled as Neo and served as stunt coordinator for the original trilogy). The new trailer leans hard into nostalgia (hello, “White Rabbit”), but once-familiar characters are now seemingly strangers to themselves and to each other. ![]() And it suggests that The Matrix Resurrections will live up to the original trilogy’s legacy of entertaining and challenging science fiction. Shifting release dates cast some doubt over whether the film is actually coming out this year, but the first full-length trailer is finally here. After 18 years, The Matrix is back, though it’s not the same as we left it. It’s not a remake, reboot, or reimagining.
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