17 facts about "The Matrix" and what to expect from the new film

In Twitter there was an interesting thread - inspired, obviously, by the recent announcement of "matrix 4». In it Ivan Talachev tells some facts about the creation of the first film, and suggests that the franchise will continue.

1. Trade begins with a kind of warning that this story took place literally in the last millennium, so that this is not the case, which can be repeated in 2019.

Little preface: This story is not emphasized in a book, it can not happen again 20 years later. Now, during franchises content services by subscription and recommendation algorithms, no one would have bought a script about virtual reality, kung fu and Buddhism.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

2. Wachowski movie obsession haunted since childhood.

Most Wachowski dragged from a movie (who would have thought). According to his mother, she took the newspaper every week and to think through a plan of sessions so that the brothers had over the weekend to see all rental trends.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

The turning point in the creative history of the Wachowski occurred in 1982, when they went to the Chicago Theater on "Blade Runner." Of their peers not like the movie to anyone, but the brothers will remember the session of a lifetime.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

3. However, initially the "Matrix" was planned as cartoon.

During the first half of the nineties brothers between construction and writing the scenarios collected material his magnum opus - a comic book that would include elements of all their favorite Cultural and scientific phenomena.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

Mythology, quantum physics, Zen Buddhism, the Internet "Space Odyssey 2001", "Odyssey" Homer and Hong Kong militants - all fell into notebooks and albums under the name "Matrix".

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

4. Brothers realized that the material is not comics and rebuild it into a screenplay. Thus was born the story, who knows almost everyone.

The brothers decided that comics would happen so myself and rebuild the years in the form of a screenplay in which the office clerk suddenly learns that the world around him - a virtual simulation, and his wise mentor Morpheus awakens it with a red pill in real world.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

5. The time for such a story was perfect, but the contract was not easy to get.

The best time to sell such a scenario could not be - the internet just became a part of American life, infancy hackers anonymous, virtual worlds first online games.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

However, a sharp look at new developments in popular culture and the fact that the film was half of fights, chases and shootouts, was not convinced by any of the studio to take on the costs of his shooting.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

6. But the script still bought Warner Bros. However, they still did not fully understand how to shoot it. Wachowski did not panic and showed.

Wachowski first removed the "Bound" lesbian thriller to show that they know how to yell "action" and "Withdrawn", and then hired the artist Geoff Darrow, with whom he painted storyboard the whole movie from start to end. pic.twitter.com/0OY3by3kVG

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

As a result, the Wachowski bosses showed the whole movie on paper. More specifically for 600 sheets. One of the brothers told the story from scene to scene, and the second uttered sound effects. Unfortunately, the video of this pitch is not in the public domain, but I hope you have a good imagination.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

7. The shooting took place in Australia - and this is not a solution to the Wachowski and severe need.

Brothers gave $ 60 million on one condition - shooting to take place in Australia, where the studio could save on tax deductions.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

8. However, they did not complain.

Thus, no one famous geeks of a construction firm in Chicago began work on a film of his dreams. pic.twitter.com/UqhdY9XD0x

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

9. A smooth transition to the casting for the lead role. Neo is hard to imagine by someone other than Reeves, but some candidates were initially.

Absolutely everyone knows that Neo was played by Will Smith. And he chose to star in "Wild Wild West", which flopped at the box office. Let's just mention this fact as needed and move on.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

None of the roles consistently refused to Brad Pitt (did not want to train after a grueling filming "Seven Years in Tibet) and Leonardo DiCaprio (after "Titanic" did not want to act in a large number of films special effects)

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

10.KeanuIt seems, and he knew that if he created for this role.

And Keanu Reeves at that time was very strange actor. After a successful hire, "Speed," he predicted hundreds of militants roles of heroes, but he dodged all commercial hits in favor of dramas and thrillers such as "The Devil's Advocate"

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

But when he read the script of "The Matrix", met with the Wachowski, spun a real bromance.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

Wachowski asked him to read the "Simulacra and Simulation" Baudrillard before the shooting - he agreed. Wachowski promised that before the first of the shooting will be four months of inhumane training - he smiled and said, "Okay."

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

11. Morpheus could also be quite different.

When it became clear that the role of Neo artist determined by itself, it is time to look for Morpheus. The role was offered to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Douglas - both refused.

(In the yard in 1997, both still intact haired) pic.twitter.com/u69yp7nK6d

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

Larry from the beginning insisted on casting Laurence Fishburne. They met on the match Tyson Holyfield Wachowski and when he heard a voice actor, he realized - that's it, "Obi-Wan Kenobi, along with Darth Vader, who wears glasses and speaks in riddles"

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

The studio also insisted on Vele Kilmer, Fishburne seemed to them too little known actor for the film for 60 million. The producers argued that if we can reach an agreement with Kilmer, the film will be easier to advertise on a wave of popularity after his "Batman Forever" pic.twitter.com/j0S9NBhrPm

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

As we all know, the Wachowski yet persuaded to take Fishburne.

12. Next important role - Trinity. Moss instead we can see in the picture the wife Will Smith.

On the role of the Trinity first claimed Jada Pinkett Smith, but at the auditions with Reeves they just do not get to play for time. As a result, the choice fell on the Canadian teleaktrisa Carrie Ann Moss, who coincidentally played the eponymous Canadian series. pic.twitter.com/L83aWgzzks

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

13. Training for the film were... hell.

Also well-known fact: staging fights and workouts engaged Yuen Woo-Ping, responsible for the fight, for example, in "Drunken Master" https://t.co/YNTq9Lrdzb

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

Woo-Ping would become Hollywood, "an expert on Mahach" number one - it will attract to put fights, both "Kill Bill" and the best movies with Jack Lee, "From the Cradle to the Grave" and "Danny - watchdog."https://t.co/hlif2lFLea

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

Even documentaries about "The Matrix" in which the actors sometimes can not blame anything or swear on the contract, all the actors are called training process it as "f **** m hell"https://t.co/vqMMaonVB2

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

14. The scene of sustained flight of bullets shot 2 years, and it cost a fortune. All for 12 seconds timing.

One of the main achievements of "The Matrix" was the introduction of Bullet Time - a special effect in which the camera moves at normal speed, but the world around it slowed down so that the viewer can see flying bullets.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

As a result, the Wachowski asked the special effects studio Manex, where technicians have collected a terrible installation of 120 cameras and filmed the scene on a green background. https://t.co/0nG3qTU6AD

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

That is, here, this 12-second scene took two years of work and 750,000 dollars from the budget. Today, twenty years later, such tricks are free and a few minutes to do any press event technology company or a youth festival.https://t.co/t6xhYntfVe

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

15. "The Matrix" came out very expensive, but its potential outweighed the desire of Warner Bros. save.

As it usually happens in the movie, budget and timeline gradually went in one place. One studio has sent a letter with a list of the Wachowski scenes from the movie, from which the brothers have to give up to save time and money.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

Wachowski called from Sydney to Los Angeles and said that without these scenes they will not have any tape or rezhsserov - look for someone to replace. After a few hours of studio bosses called back and was told not to worry about exceeding the budget.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

To smooth the conflict, the film's editor, Zach Stenberg sent to Warner Bros. rough cut shootout in the lobby of the final third of the film - and when the boss saw that the Wachowski shot in the truest sense of "new generation fighter," their discontent subsided.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

16. With prodakshenom had much hurry - because "Star Wars».

Anyone familiar with the history of film distribution, knows that in 1999 there were two kinovesny: before the premiere of the first episode of "Star wars "and then, when any movie, regardless of the budget or advertising efforts will be buried under the Trading with tanks Federation

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

As a result, the film was released six weeks before "The Phantom Menace" - March 31, 1999 and has collected $ 171 million in domestic box office and 292 internationally.

Let I will not write about the "cultural impact" of the film? All the smart people here - all is clear.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

17. Not really a fact, but rather the assumption of the author that we expect from "matrix 4».

Now a little bit about the remake, which obviously will be released no earlier than 2022.

Very simple and very tezisno.

If you - the movie studio, and you have to at least 2021 will not own strimingovogo service, you think already burned and went bankrupt. pic.twitter.com/Nh6JEYV4g4

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

To maintain your service, you need uninterrupted line of recognizable content. That is not the series' pussy walrus "," Irrigation bloody blood "and" Max Damage "and franchises that are understandable at a glance at the poster and that should not be long and hard to advertise.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

Therefore, the new "Matrix" - the soil sample.

Try to find out whether there is more history in which the plot was over 15 years ago a franchise potential.

This is a difficult question: decent amount kinohodyaschey today's audience did not catch franchise in adulthood.

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019

If the new "Matrix" will collect at the box office a lot of money (think of 300+ in the domestic box office and at least as much the world), you will have a TV series, animated series and even the game (probably good for gaming at whether WB healthy).

- Pierre DE Cello Baum-Banulleaux (@rodoss) August 21, 2019