When Warner Bros. Pictures dropped the first trailer Thursday for the highly-anticipated film The Matrix Resurrections, fans of the original 1999 movie noticed a key character was missing — Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus.
Franchise stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are featured in the trailer, but some fans were disheartened by Fishburne’s absence.
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IndieWire reports Fishburne has not been confirmed for the film and theories have been swirling that actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is supposed to be presented as a younger Morpheus.
Some fans took to Twitter to vent that the older version of Morpheus did not appear in the trailer alongside Reeve’s Neo.
@BelieveInAmoney posted video of an angry man in clown makeup on Twitter and wrote: “Me watching The Matrix trailer thinking Laurence Fishburne was going to be in it.”
Me watching The Matrix trailer thinking Laurence Fishburne was going to be in it pic.twitter.com/tUsvmcO5Zi
— GRCAmoney (@BelieveInAmoney) September 9, 2021
@RICHARDLNEWBY tweeted: “Pretty bummed Laurence Fishburne isn’t in the new Matrix. There will probably be an explanation and it seems like Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is playing a new iteration of Morpheus. But Fishburne is my favorite part of that OG series…”
Pretty bummed Laurence Fishburne isn’t in the new Matrix. There will probably be an explanation and it seems like Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is playing a new iteration of Morpheus. But Fishburne is my favorite part of that OG series. The fact he wasn’t contacted at all makes me sad.
— Richard Newby (@RICHARDLNEWBY) September 7, 2021
@jwhite_64 tweeted: “Laurence Fishburne not being in the Matrix is like Ghostbusters not taking place in NYC.”
https://twitter.com/jwhite_64/status/1435966112362024961?s=20
@SirCoreGant tweeted: “I hope this new Matrix trailer deciding to basically look like a revisit of the first film is intentionally misleading because watching a reimagining of the first one and without Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving in it is wildly uninteresting.”
I hope this new Matrix trailer deciding to basically look like a revisit of the first film is intentionally misleading because watching a reimagining of the first one and without Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving in it is wildly uninteresting.
— Critical Bass Theory (@SirCoreGant) September 9, 2021
Laurence Fishburne should’ve been in the The Matrix 4 but they did him foul pic.twitter.com/x6zuPkPVEz
— Di Gyal Dem Peppa Sauce (@SuccYuhMadda) September 9, 2021
The Matrix Resurrections will be released in theaters and on HBO Max on Dec. 22. The film is directed, co-written and produced by Lana Wachowski.
Watch the full trailer below:
https://youtu.be/9ix7TUGVYIo
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