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News Laurence Fishburne Was Turned Down for 'The Matrix Resurrections'

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/laurence-fishburne-matrix-resurrections-turned-down-1235113237/
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u/TheMancYeti 1d ago

I never got that it was giving us the finger. More like Joe Dante with Gremlins 2 in the sense of not wanting to make another one so just doing whatever the fuck they wanted just to mess with the studio. 

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u/Stevenwave 1d ago

...because they didn't want to make another one. So they just took it on in some sort of, at least WB won't just do a dumb reboot. And it lays it out in the film itself. It's not even subtext, it's actually said in the film, they just joke that it's about a game instead of the film you're watching.

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u/TheMancYeti 1d ago

Oh I know. I just meant I didn't feel the finger was aimed at the audience but solely at WB. Was totally aware of the situation.

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u/Stevenwave 1d ago

Ah right. Yeah I think it's intended to be at the studio, but then, when we sit down to give it a go, we cop it as collateral damage. There's a lot of people who would wanna see it, no matter what was said about it, or what they heard.

I love the world and I think the OG is truly up there, so it still just sucked seeing how crap it turned out.