We spoke w/ TheMatrixResurrections producer James McTeigue about the meta dialogue, how Lana Wachowski has changed as a director, future movies, Easter eggs, and more.
While you might know James McTeigue’s name as the director of V for Vendetta, The Raven, or Ninja Assassin, what you might not realize is his close connection with the Wachowski’s. That’s because over the past two decades, he was the first assistant director on The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions, and he produced Lana Wachowski’s newest sequel, The Matrix Resurrections.
JAMES MCTEIGUE: Anything I want and why. Well, you know what? I'll pass on the curve ball. I'll think about it for a minute. Keep asking you other questions. I'll come back to you. So it was probably the first bullet time moment that we did. Then once we started to develop that with John Gaeta, and then the methodology started to form into place... It was complicated, really, really complicated to do. But that was probably the sequence, the bullet time sequence.When did you actually first hear from Lana that she was interested in doing a new Matrix movie?
Then in the boss's office, when we talk about Warner Brothers, and they're going to make another sequel, all that meta stuff that you said, that was just us having a bit of fun with what everyone's opinion of the Matrix is, whilst in the middle of what the filmmaker who invented the Matrix actually thinks the Matrix is.
MCTEIGUE: Yeah. That was real. There were versions out there. But I guess the fates dictated that Lana's story came at the right time, and Warner Brothers were willing to move forward with that story. I'm fascinated by the editing process, and obviously, again, I won't be talking to Lana, but can you talk about editing the movie? How involved were you in the editing room?
I was just curious if you guys had a much longer cut of the movie, or if you had a lot of deleted scenes, stuff like that. With the ending of this movie, obviously makes it that you can leave it alone, and this is the end of the Matrix. Or of course, the story can continue. Has Lana said anything, or have you talked about the fact that it could go on, or do you think that this is the one and done?
MCTEIGUE: Yeah. Yes. Always. There's always the financial part of it. There's always the filmmakers who want to make the films, and there's always the studios or the streamers who have the money to facilitate that. So yeah. It's always a business equation as much as it is a creative equation. If someone were to actually sit down and do it, how much time is it to, I don't want to say complete it, but have the full experience? MCTEIGUE: Even I don't know that. You'd probably have to ask one of those guys over at Epic Games what that is.MCTEIGUE: That is the super hard question, actually.
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