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Will Smith teased his involvement in The Matrix 5, but if the sci-fi franchise does cast him in the leading role, it will repeat one of the most annoying parts of The Matrix Resurrections. Will Smith infamously turned down playing Neo in The Matrix early in his acting career, and the part obviously went to Keanu Reeves instead. Smith chose to film Wild Wild West instead, though he did get his major sci-fi franchise in the form of Men in Black.
Will Smith In The Matrix 5 Would Be A Bad Idea After The Matrix Resurrections Went Too Meta The Matrix Resurrections Was Too Concerned With The Past, & Will Smith's Casting Would Repeat That Mistake Close The Matrix Resurrections wasn't the worst of the Matrix movies, but it was very far from the highs of the original. A big reason it failed to live up to The Matrix is because Resurrections spent nearly its entire runtime referencing it instead of building something new.
If Will Smith is cast as Neo in The Matrix 5, it will be arguably more meta than Resurrections was. The entire reason he would be cast as Neo would be so fans could see him take on the role decades after he passed it up. Smith's casting is exactly what Resurrections was making fun of, and it's a far too meta reason to make The Matrix 5. Fans of The Matrix have already seen what making a new installment purely to capitalize on excitement results in.
Related Where The Matrix Trilogy's Cast Members Are Now The Matrix was one of the defining science fiction movies of the 1990s, and while some of its cast returned for the Matrix reboot, others moved on.
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