'The Matrix' Reboot

[TheVileOne]

That sounds like someone trying to have their cake and it too. I haven't seen it so what makes it both a reboot and a sequel?

It's technically a "reboot" of the original in that it's Rusty and his family and their misadventures, but it's Rusty from the older movies, and Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo are back as their original characters.

 

[titansupes]

That's a sequel... A reboot would be recasting Chase and D'Angelo with new people in approx. the same age bracket they were in those movies and starting all over again.

 

[I Am The Knight]

It's technically a "reboot" of the original in that it's Rusty and his family and their misadventures, but it's Rusty from the older movies, and Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo are back as their original characters.

That sounds like a sequel

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

It's been that way. I've seen people brand TFA as a reboot.

That's just silly. TFA is in no way a reboot. It is a sequel.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

A spin off or sequel I can get on board with, plenty of places to take the story with a sequel. And as others have said the Animatrix showed other story's can be told in this universe.

 

[Lencho01]

Morpheus origin story or some nonsense like that.

The New MATRIX May Be A Young Morpheus Movie

Heh if it turns out to be the case.

 

[Neno_Kos]

so predictable Hollywood

 

[DorkyFresh]

WB: MATRIX REBOOT!
Me: Maybe? As long as it's not a total reboot but more of a revival (thanx Otherwiseknownas) using the already established universe.

WB: IT'S NOT A REBOOT BUT WE'RE DOING ANOTHER MOVIE!
Me: Okay, cool then I'm down!

WB: HOW ABOUT MORPHEUS ORIGINS?!?
Me: *sigh* Two steps forward, one step back.

 

[terry78]

Prequels are their loophole of basically starting a whole new franchise. Now we see where MBJ comes in.

 

[Frankeh]

Michael B. Jordan?

So this is it now? In fear for racism every character in movies and games now should be black.

Black Neo, next will be black Superman, black Batman...and of course in few years a Pirates of the Caribbean remake with black Jack Sparrow.

Absolutely ridiculous post.

Made even more ridiculous by the fact that its possible he might be a young Morpheus. So good job whining for nothing.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

So much potential to explore different areas and concepts of The Matrix world and all they could come up with is a Morpheus backstory?

 

[terry78]

Prequels are safe because you're still working with characters the fans know.

 

[dude stannis]

I don't mind. Morpheus is a great character and it's not like the sequels bothered to keep the mysterious aura around him.

 

[Alien Anal]

Did Morpheus ever say how long he had been out of the matrixn for?

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I don't mind. Morpheus is a great character and it's not like the sequels bothered to keep the mysterious aura around him.

He's most effective as a character when he's mysterious, though.

Compared to his introduction, Morpheus is boring the sequels imo.

 

[dude stannis]

Except he's not really mysterious at all by the end of the first film let alone the sequels. It wasn't his story, he's the Obi-Wan.

 

[BlueLanternKal]

If they do go with a Morpheus prequel then it can't be a rehash of the first Matrix.

I'd prefer it if Morpheus was "special" in that he discovers what The Matrix is by himself and he's doing a whole bunch of crazy hacker **** for his own benefit. Then you have the resistance vs the machines/agents fighting each other and one side is trying to recruit him while the other wants to kill him. He just wants to **** around with reality through his new found hacking powers.

Make it as different as possible from Neo's journey and let MBJ use his natural charm instead of being a monotone robot.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I know he's no longer mysterious by the end of the first Matrix.

Which is why he's not that interesting beyond that.

I'm not really hungry for a Morpheus backstory at this point.

But I think a great movie could be made about the first person who discovered he was in the Matrix and was able to escape somehow.

Morpheus tells Neo about him during Matrix 1.

 

[BlueLanternKal]

I know he's no longer mysterious by the end of the first Matrix.

Which is why he's not that interesting beyond that.

I'm not really hungry for a Morpheus backstory at this point.

But I think a great movie could be made about the first person who discovered he was in the Matrix and was able to escape somehow.

Morpheus tells Neo about him during Matrix 1.

That could work too.

 

[Doctor Jones]

A Morpheus prequel is just pointless. You can assume by what happened to him through Neo's introduction to the world.

Oh, boy watching him take the red pill! I can't wait to see that!

This franchise has tons of potential and they go with a damn prequel.

 

[BlueLanternKal]

Would a prequel be so bad?

By the time we get to "The Matrix" there had already been 7 iterations of the simulation. The first one failed because it was constructed as a utopia and the human minds kept rejecting 'perfection'. And then eventually The One woke up and took a few escapees with him. Then he died and according to Morpheus reincarnated as Neo.

There's A LOT of story in between all that. Prequels for days. So nah, I don't think it'd be cheap for the same reason I don't think a SW: Knights of the Old Republic type prequel would be cheap.

 

[Fincher]

But I think a great movie could be made about the first person who discovered he was in the Matrix and was able to escape somehow.

Morpheus tells Neo about him during Matrix 1.

Spoiler

During each cycle, when "The One" reaches the Architect (like at the end of The Matrix: Reloaded), he's given a choice. Either he can keep fighting, in which case he'll lose and mankind will be wiped out (according to the Architect), or he can choose to allow Zion to be destroyed, reboot The Matrix, and repopulate Zion by selecting people from the Matrix.

Every "One" prior to Neo chose the second option, so each of them was tasked with taking people from the new Matrix, showing them the truth, and setting them on their path. The last "One" before Neo is the guy Morpheus was talking about, because as far as he knew, that guy was the one who learned the truth first.

 

[BlueLanternKal]

Spoiler

During each cycle, when "The One" reaches the Architect (like at the end of The Matrix: Reloaded), he's given a choice. Either he can keep fighting, in which case he'll lose and mankind will be wiped out (according to the Architect), or he can choose to allow Zion to be destroyed, reboot The Matrix, and repopulate Zion by selecting people from the Matrix.

Every "One" prior to Neo chose the second option, so each of them was tasked with taking people from the new Matrix, showing them the truth, and setting them on their path. The last "One" before Neo is the guy Morpheus was talking about, because as far as he knew, that guy was the one who learned the truth first.

The "First One" was still an anomaly that the machines didn't account for. It was in subsequent cycles as you put it that the machines had come up with the Reboot solution.

 

[Fincher]

The "First One" was still an anomaly that the machines didn't account for. It was in subsequent cycles as you put it that the machines had come up with the Reboot solution.

Spoiler

There was an anomaly in the first Matrix; however, the anomaly was that approximately one in one hundred people would choose to reject the Matrix. So I don't think the anomaly is analogous to The One, because there can only be one "One" in every iteration of The Matrix.

As I interpret it, The Matrix didn't work initially because some rejected it due to the lack of being given a choice. So the Architect gave mankind a choice by implementing The One, a representative of mankind, and offering him a choice in a way that the Architect believed that he would invariably choose to maintain The Matrix.

Also, I think The One is a reference to binary, where the choice to maintain The Matrix is a 0 and the choice to keep fighting is a 1. Hence, there were some potential "Ones" prior to Neo, but he was the arrival of the actual One who would save mankind.

 

[Frankeh]

Spoiler

As I interpret it, The Matrix didn't work initially because some rejected it due to the lack of being given a choice.

Spoiler

Wasn't it because it was too perfect? They didn't buy it?