Ready Player One screenwriter Zak Penn spoke with Screenrant recently, where he gave them a little bit of information about what he’s been working on. We’ve known he was working on some Matrix content for Warner Brothers, and that the content he is developing would not be a reboot (though some would say that Reloaded and Revolutions could use one, even 15 years later).
Here’s what he said:
Zak Penn: I’ve been working on Matrix right now. Which is in…a phase right now. That’s a franchise I desperately want to see brought back and, I can’t go in to too much detail, but I’ve been harassing Warner Bros. for years to try to get it going again so that’s one thing I’m working on and I’ve been working on a bunch of other things too.
Screenrant: I want to hug you for that. I love The Matrix.
Penn: I will fight people who don’t under…look, I think OASIS (the interconnected virtual space in Ready Player One) is similar, both the Matrix and OASIS are similar in that they are brilliant ideas for universes. And they are not, you know, when it came out about Matrix, people were like ‘Oh no, there going to reboot Matrix’ I was like, Why, I’m not insane. I mean, the Matrix is still one of my favorite…they’d re-release The Matrix and people would go see it.
Screenrant: That movie was mind blowing.
Penn: I was at the premiere and I was still like, this was better than I ever expected. So I just think that universe is brilliant, I think OASIS is like the action-comedy version of that and it doesn’t always have to be the same characters, you could go in so many different directions so…
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