They should continue from the last matrix film instead of a prequel series.
The Matrix isn't that great of a trilogy to need a prequel.
They already are, it's called the Matrix Online.
Also, I do not think the Terminator fan base is somehow "stronger" than the Matrix ones. Especially when you look at not only how Matrix fans flock to Matrix related stuff int he numbers, but the entire series generated 1.2 billion dollars in revenue alone. All of that had to come from somewhere, if anything, I would say they are equal to Terminator and the Alien movies. There are the good parts, the bad parts, but we all just want more.
Oh and uh, I looked some things over and talked with a few people...if I am vague I can cay say some things about the pitch. The reason I have to be is because nobody wants to sign on to a project and then everyone on the internet knows how it is going to flow. I do not think many people would be watching Heroes if they knew the entire plot before hand.
Anyhow, the first safe thing I would like to share in light about my pitch is the opening of the bastard child that is the pilot. Even with all the explosions, action and stuff, the suits have deemed the opening scene the most expensive thing that could be shot. However, the good news is that the opening will only be as expensive as a really good major effects work for Heroes, and I am also negotiating for a way it can be shot so not only will it be cheaper but will also be scarier and have way more impact.
After the opening, the pilot opens up with a scout ship called "Mout EX 2 Model v5-10" were a crew of humans go into the fetus fields to steal some of the fetus sacks so they can be matured and raised in Zion, in an alternate attempt by humans to get pod born people without having to free them from the system. They manage to snag 4 before being spotted and most of the crew dies in escaping the defense machines (who in my rewrote one we only see glimpses of an in slit house with bodies falling and screams), the last shot is a man making it out with only one fetus left with whats left of the crew as they board the Mout and run away from Sentinels.
It cuts back to Nyx a woman who long ago was freed from the Matrix but due to her genetics was unable to conceive. She has been allowed in secret by the counsel along with other mothers to adopt babies from the covert fetus harvest program. She is brought to the room were they are artificially aging the child physically and mentally by computers, the man previous turns out to be Captain Hamann who now limps from his injuries. They detail the project to her and the only child they could bring back, asking her to give him a name when they finish the process and put him in her arms. After some thought, she names him Morpheus, calling him "my little dream".
Over the series, Morpheus believes what his mother tells him, that they were both taken from the Matrix and he was too young to remember the trauma. This bothers him, because one of the reasons he wants to be in the military is to see for himself the world he belonged to before destroying it. Ironically, it is Agent White who introduces the real truth behind Morpheus' birth, something that troubles him until he finally confronts his mother about her lies to him.
Right now the producers feel that we need that scene (although they want to move it from the pilot to another episode) but are worried about going over budget. My feelings on it is if we can have an exploding man and a Terminator in a nuclear blast than we can have that scene.
Oh, and another thing that I am fighting is that Smith is REALLY fricken evil. He does so many evil things and his mind set, you get to really see him evolve from an Agent with a specialty for manipulation to a program who is tired of the human race and just does not want to exist anymore. Thing I am arguing is the end of season one, were Smith does something so horrifying that one producer told me "we would be battered by the FCC and parents everywhere if we showed it in full."
Thought from that statement, I think I got the desired effect.
Arg, more meeting next week, some that are not even involved with this project. I swear by the end of this sleep will sound like some long forgotten past.
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