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Neo doesn’t remember he’s Neo — and that’s the entire hook of the first trailer for “The Matrix Resurrections.”

Warner Bros. dropped the first official trailer for “The Matrix Resurrections” on September 9, 2021, eighteen years after “The Matrix Revolutions” closed out the original trilogy in 2003. Lana Wachowski directs solo this time, working from a script she co-wrote with novelists David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon, and the footage leans hard into a simple, unsettling idea: Thomas Anderson has no idea he was ever Neo. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are both back, but the trailer treats their return as a mystery to be solved rather than a victory lap.

• The trailer premiered September 9, 2021, marking the franchise’s first new footage since “The Matrix Revolutions” in 2003, with Lana Wachowski directing without her sister Lilly for the first time.
• Yahya Abdul-Mateen II confirmed on Instagram after the trailer dropped that he’s playing a new version of Morpheus, opposite Jessica Henwick’s blue-haired gunfighter Bugs and Neil Patrick Harris as Anderson’s therapist.
• “The Matrix Resurrections” is set for a dual release — theaters and HBO Max — on December 22, 2021.

A Trailer Built on Amnesia and Blue Pills

The trailer opens quietly, set to Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” with Thomas Anderson living an unremarkable life in a near-future San Francisco. He’s in therapy with a psychiatrist played by Neil Patrick Harris, describing dreams he can’t fully explain while dutifully taking prescribed blue pills. It’s a deliberate inversion of the franchise’s own mythology — the blue pill isn’t a metaphor here, it’s literally keeping him sedated and unaware.

Anderson crosses paths with a woman in a coffee shop who is unmistakably Trinity, played by Moss, but neither one shows any sign of recognizing the other. That non-reunion is the emotional gut-punch of the footage. When Anderson eventually stops taking his medication, his version of reality starts to come apart, and the trailer shifts from muted domestic drama into full franchise mode — mirror-portal travel, bullet-bending telekinesis, and gunfights that echo the original trilogy’s signature style.

Eighteen years after “The Matrix Revolutions,” Neo doesn’t even know his own name.

New Faces, New Morpheus

The most talked-about reveal is Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s character, an enigmatic figure who hands Anderson a red pill and squares off against him in a dojo duel straight out of the first film’s training sequences. Abdul-Mateen II settled the guessing game himself, confirming on Instagram after the trailer went live that he’s stepping into a new iteration of Morpheus, the role Laurence Fishburne originated in 1999. Jessica Henwick’s Bugs, introduced mid-trailer with blue hair and a gun, appears to be another key figure guiding Anderson toward the truth.

Those two new characters sit alongside a returning face: Jada Pinkett Smith is back as Niobe, the only major link to the trilogy’s supporting cast confirmed in the footage. The mix signals that “Resurrections” isn’t simply recasting old roles — it’s building a new resistance around Anderson while keeping just enough connective tissue to the original story intact.

The Ensemble and the Team Behind the Camera

The cast surrounding Reeves, Moss, and Abdul-Mateen II is stacked: Jonathan Groff, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Christina Ricci all appear in the trailer in roles that remain deliberately unexplained. Behind the camera, Wachowski produced alongside James McTeigue and Grant Hill, the same combination that’s steered the franchise’s visual language since the original “Matrix” duology. Trailers for other big fourth-quarter 2021 franchise entries, like the first look at Marvel Studios’ “Moon Knight” and the title reveal for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”, dropped around the same stretch, but none carried the same weight of resurrecting a franchise widely considered finished after 2003.

Warner Bros. has set “The Matrix Resurrections” for a simultaneous theatrical and HBO Max release on December 22, 2021, with the streaming version available for 31 days after the theatrical drop under HBO Max’s ad-free tier. That release date puts it squarely in the middle of the holiday box office, going up against whatever else Warner Bros. and rival studios line up for the same weekend — but for a franchise that’s been dormant since 2003, the fact that Neo and Trinity are back on screen at all, even without remembering each other, is the story the trailer was built to sell.