He is our Architect, and his name is Ben Chamberlain. He'd play as the Agents, wielding fancy dev tools to enhance their abilities he'd play as named characters from the films, like the Merovingian - remember him? he'd even create powerful new characters of his own like the Apothecary, a character so deadly she could one-hit people with powerful kill codes. I wanted to find out more, and who better to tell me than the person, who, by the end of The Matrix Online's operation, was pretty much running the game by himself? He'd create the storylines, implement them, and then bring them to life, embodying the characters involved in them. What does that mean for the new films? Could this be the reason Morpheus has returned from the dead looking slightly different to before? And could there be something in the game which explains why Neo and Trinity are also back from the dead? Morpheus was alive at the end of the films, but a few months into The Matrix Online, he was killed - with the Wachowskis' blessing. I bet you don't even know Morpheus is dead, do you?

But it matters now, doesn't it, because The Matrix is back, and how many of you know what happened after Neo sacrificed himself to the machines? This wasn't particularly controversial at the time because The Matrix, as far as most people were concerned - maybe even as far as the Wachowskis were concerned - was done. Here was a piece of entertainment entrusted by the Matrix creators, the Wachowskis, to continue the Matrix story after the three films ended. This is because The Matrix Online occupies a fascinating space within The Matrix universe. It resurfaced because it offered, potentially, context about what was going on in the enigmatic Matrix 4 trailer. And it was a game we hadn't heard about for years: The Matrix Online. Because for one moment, amid all the speculation, something brilliant happened: people reached for an explanation from a game.

For some reason, Fisburne wasn't invited to the reunion, but let's not dwell on that. And that moment where he and Carrie-Anne Moss meet in the trailer? Ooh ooh ooh.Д«ut where was Laurence Fishburne, where was Morpheus? Or was that Morpheus? No one seemed to be sure, though it didn't take long for actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II to clarify that he is Morpheus in the new film. And seeing Keanu as Neo again sent shivers down my spine. I really love that film (I am pretending there is only one of course).

I was taken aback watching The Matrix 4 trailer earlier this month, because it's been years since anything Matrix was exciting, and I'd forgotten how much it means to me.

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