How Matrix Resurrections Changes The Other Movies: All Retcons & Reveals

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The Matrix franchise returned to the big screen in 2021 after almost 18 years – here's everything The Matrix Resurrections reveals and retcons about the previous films. While The Matrix Revolutions offered a solid ending to the saga, The Matrix's impact on pop culture always suggested that another sequel or even a reboot could eventually happen. After several rumors, including a brand new story featuring Michael B. Jordan as the lead, The Matrix 4 finally became a real project, bringing brought Lana Wachowski back in the director's chair and continuing the story of the first three films.

Considering that both The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Resurrections were far from being universally praised as the first movie, mostly due to the several new and sometimes difficult to understand concepts such as the Architect and what the Oracle truly was, The Matrix 4 was always going to be a difficult movie to pull of – especially so many years after the original trilogy. As confusing and controversial as Neo's story in The Matrix Revolutions was, the film's ending seemed to have to conclude the story once and for all. Therefore, in order for The Matrix Resurrections to work, a lot of The Matrix films retcons had to happen, and new concepts had to be introduced.

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Just the fact that Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss were reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively, was already enough to suggest that Matrix Resurrections would have to retcon the Matrix Revolutions' ending. Not only that, but in order for there to be any conflicts in the Matrix Resurrections' plot, the seemly peace achieved at the end of Matrix Revolutions with the truce between