Coincidentally I watched the original trilogy not long ago after many years. As I remembered, the first is mindblowing. Way, way ahead of it’s time. Even if I saw it a couple times in the past already I was still on the edge of my seat and uttered the equivalent of “w.. t.. f..” when it was over. However, also as I remembered, the sequels were pretty terrible with a plot that doesn’t make sense and at the end even contradicts the rest of the series.

After watching this trailer I’m not really expecting anything great, but I’ll watch it anyways out of curiosity. I’m not sure what happened with Laurence Fishburne, but I’ll wait for the explanation before passing judgement on that. He’ll be missed in any case. So will Hugo Weaving, but obviously he can’t be back.

Coincidentally I watched the original trilogy not long ago after many years. As I remembered, the first is mindblowing. Way, way ahead of it’s time. Even if I saw it a couple times in the past already I was still on the edge of my seat and uttered the equivalent of “w.. t.. f..” when it was over. However, also as I remembered, the sequels were pretty terrible with a plot that doesn’t make sense and at the end even contradicts the rest of the series.

After watching this trailer I’m not really expecting anything great, but I’ll watch it anyways out of curiosity. I’m not sure what happened with Laurence Fishburne, but I’ll wait for the explanation before passing judgement on that. He’ll be missed in any case. So will Hugo Weaving, but obviously he can’t be back.

How in the heck did I never realize that Jeri Hogarth in the Netflix Marvel series was played by the same actress as Trinity until I saw this trailer today? lmao

I'm ambivalent. I hated both sequels but I still like the universe created by the Wachowskis. I might give this a shot.

I suppose this could be a prequel as well, since the year inside the Matrix isn't indicative of the time period outside.
It could be that the machines tried the 2020's era before the original trilogy, and it didn't work out for whatever reason. So they tried the early 2000's instead after that. Whichever period people adapted better to/were happier in.

Although in that case that probably means that this Neo wouldn't get as attached to Trinity.

To be fair, a remake sequel is basically what the Matrix trilogy set up. The trilogy revealed that The Matrix was a cycle, there were 5 previous iterations of the Matrix and 5 previous "One's", what made Neo different from the previous "One's" is that his love was focused on a single person, Trinity, instead of on humanity as a whole, he chose to save her in Matrix Reloaded instead of doing what the other 5 "One's" had done, choosing survivors to repopulate Zion while the Matrix was reset. Then in Matrix Revolution we saw Neo negotiate a truce with the machines, killing Agent Smith, who wants to destroy both the real world and the Matrix, in exchange for leaving humanity alone. Neo succeeds in defeating Agent Smith by allowing himself to be assimilated so that the Machines can use him as a connection to delete Agent Smith. Then Neo falls due to his injuries and is carried away by the machines, and The Matrix is reset, with a final scene showing the Architect and the Oracle in a park, where we learn that the machines are holding up their end of the Truce for the time being, though they suggest that the truce will not last indefinitely, and the Oracle says that she thinks we will see Neo again one day.

Considering all of that, it was pretty much always safe to assume that this 4th movie was going to be a remake style reboot that harkens back to the original. Presumably the machines, after carrying away Neo's body, have placed him in his own personal Matrix where Trinity is still alive, created from his memories of her. The new Morpheus and the blue haired girl in this movie seem to be part of the next generation of freedom fighters within the Matrix's 7th version of the cycle, who go into Neo's personal Matrix to get him to wake up. Presumably, the truce only lasted temporarily, just as the Oracle and Architect suggested it would, and now the Machines have decided to continue the cycle of the Matrix once again, and Neo is needed to stop the cycle once and for all this time.