Neil Patrick Harris Ready to Enter the Realm of The Matrix

The cast of the new Matrix is getting more interesting

Rumors about a remake of Matrix movie is now history, Warner Bros. finally made the news official back in August, The Matrix is back, baby. The digital world of the Matrix is expected to go into production in early 2020 and has added another surprising name to its new cast – Neil Patrick Harris.

 

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity from the original The Matrix trilogy. But, Lana Wachowski will be directing without kin, Lily, drawn from a screenplay which she co-wrote with Aleksander Hemon and David Mitchell.

The Matrix stunt performer Chad Stahelski leaked the Wachowski sisters will return as co-directors on the new Matrix project. This was later refuted, Stahelski’s representative told the report was inaccurate, that Stahelski was responding to a hypothetical scenario that had been posed.

 

Everything’s up in the air, the movie is currently filling out its cast. There’s no confirmation whether Laurence Fishburne will reprise his role. The Neil Patrick Harris announcement comes a week after series newcomer Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, the villainous Black Manta in last year’s Aquaman, was included in the roster and might take the role of the younger Morpheus. Jada Pinkett Smith is in negotiations to reprise her role as Niobe in The Matrix 4. She played the role in the previous three films.

The role of Neil Patrick Harris has not been disclosed same as the plot details which are being kept under wraps. The role is a huge land in what would mark his first tent-pole at a major studio.

 

Neil Patrick Harris spent a decade starring on the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother and three seasons as Count Olaf in Netflix’s adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Harris’s recent films included David Fincher’s Gone Girl and Alexander Payne’s Downsizing.

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The 1999 Matrix release was a box office hit and laid the groundwork for two sequels, 2003’s The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. All three flicks have grossed a combined $1.63 billion globally. Another box office hit in the works?