History Trivia / TheMatrixResurrections

** Creator/JessicaHenwick cut her long black hair to a BoyishShortHair and dyed it blue for the film.

* CreatorBreakdown: [[https://screencrush.com/reason-why-neo-and-trinity-are-alive-matrix-4/ In a panel at the International Literature Festival Berlin]], Lana Wachowski said the idea for a new film starring Neo and Trinity BackFromTheDead came in response to grief from losing her parents and a friend.
-->'''Lana Wachowski''': My brain has always reached into my imagination and one night, I was crying and I couldn't sleep, and my brain exploded this whole story. And I couldn’t have my mom and dad, yet suddenly I had Neo and Trinity, arguably the two most important characters in my life. It was immediately comforting to have these two characters alive again, and it's super simple. You can look at it and say: "Okay, these two people die and okay, bring these two people back to life and oh, doesn't that feel good?" Yeah, it did! It's simple, and this is what art does and that's what stories do, they comfort us.

** As with the first film, Creator/KeanuReeves shaved his beard and long hair off for his scenes when he's outside the Matrix. This time, Creator/CarrieAnneMoss also shaved her head, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCwsMV2uQwI sat side-by-side]] with Reeves as they did so.
* NoStuntDouble: According to Creator/KeanuReeves, Neo and Trinity's tandem leap from San Francisco's 44 Montgomery Street building, was mostly accomplished without CGI effects. Even though the building is officially 43 stories high, they had to climb a further 2-3 floors to reach the rooftop. The pair made the jump as many as twenty times over a two-day period with body descender cables attached.

*** Weaving's voice actor for the European French dub of the first three films, Creator/VincentGrass, was also replaced, by Marc Arnaud.
** Sati was played by Tanveer K. Atwal in ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' and Priyanka Chopra Jonas here.
** The Brazillian dub replaced both Neo and Trinity - the former was a particularly contested change, as dubber Reynaldo Buzzoni had been in another job that made him basically only return for new Keanu Reeves movies, and Buzzoni would reveal that in spite of announcing himself available for the studio, he was never called.

** As with the first film, Creator/KeanuReeves shaved his beard and long hair off for his scenes when he's outside the Matrix.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed $150 million worldwide on a budget of $190 million. In North America, it grossed $37 million by the end of its run, less than what ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' grossed on its first ''day''.[[note]]A stat that looks even worse when taking into account the average 2021 ticket price being around 72% higher than in 2003, meaning ''Reloaded'''s first day would be around $73 million adjusted for inflation.[[/note]] Factors cited for the lackluster returns include the film's HBO Max availability, the COVID-19 pandemic, mixed word-of-mouth, diminished interest in a franchise that had been dormant for 18 years, and its release falling less than a week after that of undisputed box office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''. That being said, the film was one of the most successful same-day-releases on HBO Max, to the point where the studio optioned Lana Wachowski for a sequel regardless of the film's box office underperformance based on streaming numbers alone (whether or not Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery intends on following up on this remains to be seen).

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed $150 million worldwide on a budget of $190 million. In North America, it grossed $37 million by the end of its run, less than what ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' grossed on its first ''day''.[[note]]A stat that looks even worse when taking into account 2021 ticket prices being about 72% higher than 2003 prices.[[/note]] Factors cited for the lackluster returns include the film's HBO Max availability, the COVID-19 pandemic, mixed word-of-mouth, diminished interest in a franchise that had been dormant for 18 years, and its release falling less than a week after that of undisputed box office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''. That being said, the film was one of the most successful same-day-releases on HBO Max, to the point where the studio optioned Lana Wachowski for a sequel regardless of the film's box office underperformance based on streaming numbers alone (whether or not Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery intends on following up on this remains to be seen).

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed $150 million worldwide on a budget of $190 million. In North America, it grossed $37 million by the end of its run, less than what ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' grossed on its first ''day''. Factors cited for the lackluster returns include the film's HBO Max availability, the COVID-19 pandemic, mixed word-of-mouth, diminished interest in a franchise that had been dormant for 18 years, and its release falling under a week after that of undisputed box office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''. That being said, the film was one of the most successful same-day-releases on HBO Max, to the point where the studio optioned Lana Wachowski for a sequel regardless of the film's box office underperformance based on streaming numbers alone (whether or not Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery intends on following up on this remains to be seen).

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed $150 million worldwide on a budget of $190 million. In North America, it grossed $37 million by the end of its run, less than what ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' grossed on its first ''day''. Factors cited for the lackluster returns include the film's HBO Max availability, the COVID-19 pandemic, mixed word-of-mouth, diminished interest in a franchise that had been dormant for 18 years, and its release falling under a week after that of undisputed box office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''. That being said, the film was one of the most successful same-day-releases on HBO Max, to the point where the studio optioned Lana Wachowski for a sequel regardless of the film's box office underperformance based on streaming numbers alone.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed $150 million worldwide on a budget of $190 million. In North America, it grossed $37 million by the end of its run, less than what ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' grossed on its first ''day''. Factors cited for the lackluster returns include the film's HBO Max availability, mixed word-of-mouth, diminished interest in a franchise that had been dormant for 18 years, and its release falling under a week after that of undisputed box office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''. That being said, the film was one of the most successful same-day-releases on HBO Max, to the point where the studio optioned Lana Wachowski for a sequel regardless of the film's box office underperformance based on streaming numbers alone.

** The Brazillian dub replaced both Neo and Trinity - the former was a particularly contested change, as dubber Reynaldo Buzzoni had been in another job that made him basically only return for new Keanu Reeves movies, and he would reveal that in spite of announcing himself available for the studio, Buzzoni was never called.

** Except for Creator/JessicaHenwick's Bugs, the actors who play the crew of the ''Mnemosyne'' (Toby Onwumere, Eréndira Ibarra, Brian J. Smith, Mumbi Maina, and L. Trey Wilson) had all previously worked with Lana Wachowski on ''Series/Sense8''. Other cast members from the same series who turn up here are Max Riemelt and Max Mauff (in Io), Michael X. Sommers as the barista, and Purab Kohli and Creator/FreemaAgyeman (as part of the ''Matrix'' focus group research team).

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed $150 million worldwide on a budget of $190 million. In North America, it grossed $37 million by the end of its run, less than what ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' grossed on its first ''day''. Factors cited for the lackluster returns include the film's HBO Max availability, mixed word-of-mouth, diminished interest in a franchise that had been dormant for 18 years, and its release falling under a week after that of undisputed box office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''. That being said, the film was one of the most successful offerings on HBO Max, to the point where the studio optioned Lana Wachowski for a sequel regardless of the film's box office underperformance.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed $150 million worldwide on a budget of $190 million. In North America, it grossed $37 million by the end of its run, less than what ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' grossed on its first ''day''. Factors cited for the lackluster returns include the film's HBO Max availability, mixed word-of-mouth, diminished interest in a franchise that had been dormant for 18 years, and its release falling under a week after that of undisputed box-office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''. That being said, the film was one of the most successful offerings on HBO Max, to the point where the studio optioned Lana Wachowski for a sequel regardless of the film's box office.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed $150 million worldwide on a budget of $190 million. In North America, it grossed $37 million by the end of its run, less than what ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' grossed on its first ''day''. Factors cited for the lackluster returns include the film's HBO Max availability, mixed word-of-mouth, diminished interest in a franchise that had been dormant for 18 years, and its release falling under a week after that of undisputed box-office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''.

** The Brazillian dub has Garcia Junior dubbing Neo instead of Reynaldo Buzzoni, who dubbed him in all previous movies.

** The movie is co-written by [[Creator/DavidMitchellAuthor David Mitchell]], the author of ''Literature/CloudAtlas''.

* McLeaned: In a sense. [[spoiler:The film acknowledges the death of the original Morpheus, which happened during the events of the now defunct-yet-still-canon ''VideoGame/TheMatrixOnline'', launched two years after ''Revolutions''.]]

** The movie is co-written by Creator/DavidMitchellAuthor, the author of ''Literature/CloudAtlas''.

* RecursiveCanon: The slow motion effects from the Matrix films is referred to as "BulletTime" by Anderson's team of video game developers. The term was coined by the filmmakers during production of ''Film/TheMatrix'' (and used extensively in press coverage at the time) but it was never referred to in-world during the original trilogy.

* RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle: Keanu Reeves kept his Franchise/JohnWick look (beard and long hair) for this film due to the overlapping productions of both this and the fourth Wick film, though the latter's production was delayed due to COVID-19, which resulted in him shaving his beard and long hair off in the latter half of filming, in the scenes in which Neo is outside the Matrix (see Dyeing for Your Art below). Fortunately, he grew both back in time to begin filming the latter, which had its release date postponed to spring 2023 shortly after the release of this film.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed $150 million worldwide on a budget of $190 million. In North America, it grossed $37 million by the end of its run, less than what ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' grossed on its first ''day''. Factors cited for the lackluster returns include the film's HBO Max availability, mixed word-of-mouth and its release falling under a week after that of undisputed box-office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''.

* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/HugoWeaving was supposed to return as Agent Smith, but negotiations fell apart due to scheduling conflicts where he was appearing in Creator/TonyKushner's theatrical adaptation of ''Theatre/TheVisit''. Creator/JonathanGroff took over the role for this film.

* RecursiveAdaptation: The slow motion effects from the original ''Matrix'' films is referred to as "Bullet Time" by Anderson's team of video game developers. "Bullet Time" was never what the effect was called; it's a term from the video game ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'', which was heavily influenced by the first film, and is now apparently being referenced in this film.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed $150 million worldwide on a budget of $190 million. In North America, it earned $37 million by the end of its run, less than what ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' earned in its first ''day''. Factors cited for the lackluster returns include the film's HBO Max availability, mixed word-of-mouth and its release falling under a week after that of undisputed box-office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed only over $150 million worldwide on a production budget of $190 million. Factors cited for the returns include the film's HBO Max availability, mixed word-of-mouth and its release falling under a week after that of undisputed box-office juggernaut ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''.