To be honest, I’m surprised this hasn’t happened before. While The Reloaded and Revolutions weren’t the box office behemoths Warner Bros. had hoped, they still showed that there were plenty of people interested in that world. Now THR has heard that a Matrix ‘reboot’ is in the early stages.
They suggest that Zak Penn in talks to write a treatment, with the studio potentially looking at Michael B. Jordan to star. At the moment though, Lana and Lilly Wachowski aren’t involved, but that may change. Warner is apparently hoping to get their blessing at the very least, as without it they fear a backlash from fans.
At the moment though this doesn’t appear to be a reboot in the sense that it will retell the story of Neo. Instead, as Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer put it on Twitter, it appears the studio is hoping to ‘Rogue One’ the franchise, telling an alternative tale set in the same universe.
There is also the potential for the return of Keanu Reeves, although he would want the Wachowskis fully involved, as he recently told Yahoo! Movies, that for him to get back into The Matrix world, “They would have to write it and direct it. And then we’d see what the story is, but yeah, I dunno, that’d be weird, but why not?”
At the moment though, it’s too early to say what will happen.
When people wonder why Hollywood is so reticent about putting LGBT characters in their big releases, the fuss over some minor gay content in Disney’s Beauty & The Beast is good evidence of why studio execs shy away from it. The fear is that there will a backlash from the religious right and various countries around the world either banning the film or making it difficult for people to see. As a result, the worry that it will lower the box office means LGBT characters are still a major rarity in big Hollywood films.
Aliens really need to learn how to chill out. While occasionally we find a nice one like ET, most of the time when humanity makes contact with alien life on screen, it all very quickly goes bad. That’s happening again in Life, where Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal are stuck in space with something alien and icky that wants to kill them. Previous promos for the movie have hidden the extraterrestrial away, but this red band trailer gives us some glimpses of monster.
Synopsis: ‘The team who brought you Despicable Me and the biggest animated hits of 2013 and 2015, Despicable Me 2 and Minions, returns to continue the adventures of Gru, Lucy, their adorable daughters—Margo, Edith and Agnes—and the Minions.
After a couple of part animated, part live-action movies, Sony has decided to get rid of the live-action bit for their next Smurfs film. A new trailer for the movie has arrived, which you can take a look at below.
Benedict Cumberbatch already cracked the enigma code in The Imitation Game, has been jumping through dimensions in Doctor Strange, and now he wants to find out How To Stop Time. Well, sort of. That’s the title of the latest film the actor has become attached to, at least.
While it would be nice to earn millions of dollars to be a movie superhero, I really don’t think I could physically put in the effort needed to get the physique of the likes of Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans of Henry Cavill. Unfortunately thought, Hollywood doesn’t seem to be interested in superhero who look a bit schlubby and gym-shy.
Ridley Scott is busy finishing up his latest Alien movie, Covenant, and while he’s promised there’s another trip into world of xenomorphs coming in the future, he’s planning something rather different before he completes his Alien prequel trilogy. 
A couple of months ago there were rumours that Wonder Woman was in trouble, and that the film was a bit of a mess. However, from the evidence of this trailer, it looks like it might be quite fun, not least because it seems to have a lighter tone and more of a sense of humour than most of the previous DC Universe movies. It also takes us back in time, for a superhero movie set during the First World War.