{"id":882694,"date":"2026-09-07T01:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882694\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:08:20","slug":"more-matrix-needs-a-wachowski-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882694\/","title":{"rendered":"More “Matrix” Needs A Wachowski Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n

Lilly Wachowski says she is \u2018done\u2019 with \u201cThe Matrix\u201d franchise, but oddly enough still has a say on if it\u2019ll go forward.<\/p>\n

In April 2024, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that a fifth film in the franchise was in the works, and the first instalment without Lana or Lilly Wachowski involved as directors.<\/p>\n

Both were behind the original trilogy and subsequently worked together on a number of films (\u201cJupiter Ascending,\u201d \u201cCloud Atlas,\u201d \u201cSpeed Racer\u201d) and the Netflix series \u201cSense8\u201d before Lilly stepped back from the series and let Lana handle the fourth film, \u201cThe Matrix Resurrections,\u201d on her own.<\/p>\n

That film cost $190 million to make but grossed just $37 million domestically and proved divisive amongst reviewers. Now, \u201cThe Martian\u201d and \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d screenwriter Drew Goddard is slated to write, direct and produce the next film in the series.<\/p>\n

However, speaking with KCRW\u2019s The Business<\/a>, Wachowski says Goddard reportedly won\u2019t move forward on the film without the blessing of the Wachowskis.<\/p>\n

Lilly says she and Lana may still \u2018stick our noses in a tiny bit\u2019 before deciding whether to give it. Either way she\u2019s finished her time with the property:<\/p>\n

\u201cWarner Bros., they wanna make another thing. They\u2019re always gonna wanna make another thing. Personally, I don\u2019t wanna play in that sandbox anymore. I\u2019m kinda done.<\/p>\n

But there may be a thing that\u2019s happening with Drew Goddard, and he doesn\u2019t wanna go forward unless he gets our blessing. And so, it becomes this complicated situation where, maybe we\u2019re gonna stick our noses in a tiny bit and see how we feel, and if we wanna pass on our blessing to Drew or not. So, it could be something that\u2019s coming down the road, but it\u2019s still unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the last report back in March, Goddard was still working on the script and didn\u2019t know when it would be ready to move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Pictures Lilly Wachowski says she is \u2018done\u2019 with \u201cThe Matrix\u201d franchise, but oddly enough still has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-882694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882694","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=882694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}