Matrix 4 is under way, with director Lana Wachowski spinning a fresh puzzle for fans to obsess over. But their biggest question for now is: why isn’t Laurence Fishburne on the cast list?
It is pretty much impossible to imagine The Matrix without Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus. Perhaps Lana and Lilly Wachowski could have found a different actor, or character, to mouth the much-repeated line about red and blue pill options that dictated whether or not Neo would plunge headlong down the techno rabbit hole in the iconic 1999 sci fi flick. But it is as sure as the fact that we’re all living in a simulation that no one but Fishburne could have delivered it with such monumental gravitas.
You take the blue pill ... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill ... you stay in Wonderland,...
It is pretty much impossible to imagine The Matrix without Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus. Perhaps Lana and Lilly Wachowski could have found a different actor, or character, to mouth the much-repeated line about red and blue pill options that dictated whether or not Neo would plunge headlong down the techno rabbit hole in the iconic 1999 sci fi flick. But it is as sure as the fact that we’re all living in a simulation that no one but Fishburne could have delivered it with such monumental gravitas.
You take the blue pill ... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill ... you stay in Wonderland,...
- 6/25/2021
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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