{"id":510809,"date":"2026-03-01T01:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510809\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:22:12","slug":"goddard-confirms-the-matrix-5-is-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510809\/","title":{"rendered":"Goddard Confirms &#8220;The Matrix 5&#8221; Is Still Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/goddard-confirms-the-matrix-5-still-a-go.jpg\" data-caption=\"Warner Bros. Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/goddard-confirms-the-matrix-5-still-a-go.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"goddard-confirms-the-matrix-5-still-a-go\"\/><\/a>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Almost two years ago, in April 2024, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that a fifth film in \u201cThe Matrix\u201d franchise was in the works.<\/p>\n<p>The project would\u2019ve marked the first instalment without Lana or Lily Wachowski involved as directors.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, \u201cThe Martian\u201d and \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d screenwriter Drew Goddard would write, direct and produce the feature.  Goddard previously directed the films \u201cBad Times at the El Royale\u201d and \u201cThe Cabin in the Woods\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, however, there\u2019s been zero in the way of updates, and some suspected it may have been quietly let go.  With Goddard doing his first interviews for \u2018Mary\u2019 this week, he confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/the-matrix-5-development-update-drew-goddard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Screen Rant<\/a> that the film is still very much alive:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s] still in the works.  I\u2019m in my writing cave writing. I don\u2019t know how long I\u2019ll be in that writing cave, but whenever I come out, I\u2019ll have news to share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If it goes forward, it\u2019s expected that Sarah Esberg will produce, whilst Lana Wachowski will executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise last hit the screen with 2021\u2019s divisive \u201cThe Matrix Resurrections\u201d which cost $190 million to make but grossed just $37 million domestically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Pictures Almost two years ago, in April 2024, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that a fifth film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-510809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}