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(September 2002) This topic is realtive Matrix 2 & 3 making.Please look out "(*** Spoilers ***)" in the title.And all of news items are here.
From:E Online(The detail is here) Fishburne's "Matrix" Marriage
by Marcus Errico 
Morpheus has been caught in a matrimonial matrix. Laurence Fishburne, the ultracool, shades-sporting ringleader of The Matrix, has found a match made in science fiction, marrying actress Gina Torres of the new Fox series Firefly last weekend. The two swapped vows Sunday at the Cloisters museum in New York, Fisburne's publicist, Alan Nierob, confirmed today. Fishburne's Matrix buddy Keanu Reeves was in attendance. The guest list also included Cicely Tyson, Lenny Kravitz and Elton John (is there a celebrity Elton doesn't know?). Torres wore a gown by Mira Mandich, a designer based in Sydney, Australia. The couple had spent some serious quality time in the land down under over the past year filming the two Matrix sequels. The newlyweds have been together for nearly seven years, since friends set them up on a blind date. They were engaged for nearly eight months before Fishburne blurted it out to Jay Leno last year during a guest appearance on the Tonight Show. Until this weekend, the 33-year-old Torres was a nuptial newbie. Her betrothed, however, had been down the aisle once before, with actress Hajna Moss (no relation to fellow Matrixer Carrie-Anne). He and Moss had two children together, a son named Langston and a daughter, Montana. Fisburne, 41, has racked up an impressive r駸um・that includes credits (as "Larry Fishburne") ranging from Apocalypse Now to Boyz N the Hood to Pee-wee's Playhouse, in which he played Cowboy Curtis. He won an Emmy, for a guest-starring role on the short-lived series Tribeca and garnered an Emmy nomination playing Caleb Humphries in the acclaimed TV movie Miss Evers' Boys and a Tony for Two Trains Running. His turn as the abusive Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It earned him an Oscar nomination. Still, he's best known these days as Morpheus, Neo's time-stopping, high-kicking mentor in The Matrix. Fishburne wrapped work on The Matrix: Reloaded and The Matrix: Revolutions earlier this year. Both films are slated for release next year, Reloaded in May and Revolutions in November. His current project is the motorcycle-themed contemporary Western Biker Boyz, also due in 2003. Torres, too, will appear in the dual Matrix sequels. She gave up a budding opera career (she's a trained mezzo soprano and also does jazz and gospel) for the slightly more high-profile acting life. Aside from her duties as second officer Zo・on Firefly, which debuted last Friday, Torres has had guest-starring stints on One Life to Live, Law & Order, NYPD Blue and Xena: Warrior Princess. She was Nebula on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Stacy on Lifetime's Any Day Now and Hel in the now defunct syndicated sci-fi series Cleopatra 2525. Most recently she played Jennifer Garner's nemesis Anna Espinosa on ABC's Alias. When not on location, the couple split their time between digs in New York and Los Angeles. No word on any honeymoon plans.
From:Guardian(The detail is here)
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From:IGN Filmforce(The detail is here)
From:IGN Filmforce(The detail is here)
The Matrix: Double VisionWe round up the latest Matrix news, including word from the evil, silver-dreadlocked, virii twins! September 10, 2002 - If you've been keeping up with the Matrix sequels, you've seen Adrian and Neil Rayment before. The 30-year-old identical twin brothers play the two white-wearing, silver-dreadlocked dudes that Morpheus is shown fighting in one of the previously released Reloaded production stills (see below). The Rayment twins have been working the media circuit lately (probably looking to land their next movie gig) and we've got a coolness-filled round-up of what they've had to say. While talking with the BBC's Liquid News (picked up by Empire Online), the twins said that their visually striking characters are actually "rogue viruses within the Matrix mainframe." They're bodyguards to "one of the main characters in the film." "We're inherently evil," they say. The twins previous claim to fame was a gig as handymen on the do-it-yourself show Better Homes. But when they're not working with power tools, they're brushing up on their martial arts moves. In the September issue of The Face Magazine, the twins reveal that they're actually second-grade black belts in Shotokan karate. They also let fly that their characters' weapons of choice are pearl-handled switchblades that they keep in their long white trenchcoats. Adrian and Neil Rayment as the Evil Twins Adrian tells the mag, "We play left and right-hand men to Morpheus' opposite – a new guy... the Mirror Vision." According to Neil, "The [Wachowski] brothers' explanation is that we're like a deleted program that will wander the Matrix forever." Adrian adds, "A pool of deleted programs are ruling the Matrix – the Mirror Vision is a magnet for all programs with this desolate lifestyle." The "Mirror Vision" character that they're referring to could be the one portrayed by Lambert Wilson. An Ain't It Cool News tipster recently described Wilson's character as "king of the virtual world," and they add that he is able to "program himself" in any language he wants. Sounds like things are getting interesting! Keep your browser on IGN FilmForce as things heat up for The Matrix: Reloaded. -- Brian Linder
From:Rolling Stones(The detail is here)
The Dirt on "The Matrix" SequelsSizzling secrets revealed about "Reloaded" and "Revolution" The good news is: the "Matrix" sequels are coming. The bad news is: not just yet. You'll have to curb your enthusiasm until Thursday, May 15th, 2003, when The Matrix Reloaded, the first of the two follow-ups (The Matrix Revolutions is scheduled to follow a few months later), hits the multiplex. But, hey, you've been waiting since the original Matrix debuted in 1999 for another action blockbuster to connect on a more primal level than the selling of tickets. Star Wars is yesterday; George Lucas himself said as much recently in the Los Angeles Times when he admitted that The Phantom Menace (also released in 1999) wasn't the exciting action movie the fans "wanted me to make. . . . They wanted to see The Matrix." As the nonstop Web buzz will tell you, the Matrix saga is cabled into the here and now. Writer-directors Andy and Larry Wachowski radically rewrote the rules of action choreography for this hyperdrive Siddhartha, which added a spiritual component to an extremely cynical genre that had been defined by guns, babes and booty. The $459 million worldwide take speaks for itself. So what's the inside dirt on these hot sequels? We know overseas production wrapped on August 22nd, in Sydney, Australia, after more than 200 days of filming that began in March 2001 in Oakland, California. Producer Joel Silver issued a statement claiming that the two sequels are not two separate films at all: "It is one enormous movie that's being cut in half and shown in two halves." Gee, that helps. Don't look to the Wachowski brothers; they speak to no one in the media. And good luck talking to the stars. Keanu Reeves, who returns as Neo, the computer hacker turned cybersavior, is typically mum. Carrie-Anne Moss, who plays Trinity, Neo's leather-clad, hog-riding, kickboxing fixation, is, she says, "sworn to secrecy." The same goes for Laurence Fishburne, who plays Morpheus, a leader in the war to save the underground city of Zion from the Matrix and its machine army of drones in dark shades, the most odious of which is Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving). But the wall erected around the Matrix sequels, which are said to be costing between $300 and $345 million, is not completely impenetrable. We've snagged a copy of the Reloaded script (not one of those fake jobbies circulating on the Internet) and talked to a few insiders. Without spoiling the fun, we figure there's nothing wrong with a little sampling, unless of course you prefer to know absolutely nothing. If so, stop reading right now. Your choice: the red pill or the blue pill. Tick-tock goes the plot: The story of The Matrix Reloaded is a ticking clock that unwinds in a seventy-two-hour period, which is roughly the time Neo and the rebel leaders estimate it will take for 250,000 high-tech probes to dig their way down to Zion and waste the human populace. The script builds incredible tension, but not merely in a suspense vein. This is an emotionally shattering journey for Neo, who must decide how and if he can save Trinity from a dark fate he's been seeing in his dreams. The story ends in the cliffhanging manner of The Empire Strikes Back. Sex heats up: Yes, Neo and Trinity finally do it. The coupling takes place in Zion, where the rebellion's high command is based and where the troop vessel Nebuchadnezzar, carrying Neo and Trinity, makes a brief stopover. Zion, which is close to the Earth's molten core, inspires its residents to feverish dancing. As Neo and Trinity make love in a cove of black rock, the sex is intercut with a tribal dance in which, the script says, "sweat, spit and mud fly from the growing fury with the rhythmic slap of naked feet against wet clay." Let George Lucas top that. Groundbreaking special effects: Everyone remembers the "bullet time" stuff from the first film, with the camera running slo-mo circles around Neo. But those visuals have since devolved into cliche. Silver himself went back to the well in Swordfish, and bullet time has been parodied twice, in Shrek and Scary Movie. "The Wachowskis were very keen on taking their ideas further," says Silver. "They felt that if it was so easy to copy us before, then let's make it really impossible. So with Reloaded and Revolutions, they're not just pushing the technology, they're creating new technology to allow them to do things that have not been done before." The ultimate chase: Arriving late in Reloaded is a a highway chase involving cars and a chopper. Lawrence Mattis, the Wachowskis' manager, claims the chase (a good part of which was shot in Oakland last spring, on a specially constructed stretch of simulated highway) will go on for nearly fifteen minutes of screen time. "It'll stun people," says Mattis. "The adrenaline junkies are going to go back to it several times." Keanu takes flight: At the end of the first film, Neo found he could fly within the Matrix. The Wachowskis, who reportedly feel that human flight has never looked quite right onscreen, have tried to make up for the deficiency in the sequels with Neo, as one character says, "doing his Superman thing" faster than a speeding bullet. An attack of the clones: Agent Smith and his identically tailored goon squad have gained the ability to aggressively clone or "copy" themselves onto their rebel adversaries, leading to dicey situations in which an apparent good guy is anything but. (As Neo cryptically comments, "Hmm -- upgrades.") The goons have become prolific. There's a fight scene in which Agent Smith multiplies into twelve replicants, all of them duking it out with Neo simultaneously. Watch out for the twins: Ghostly albino adversaries called Twin One and Twin Two have the capability of materializing and rematerializing, sometimes flesh-and-bonelike and sometimes as ethereal as gas. The Twins battle Neo in a scrap in an underground garage. The jinx rumors: They started when Aaliyah died in a plane crash last year before completing her role as Zee, a freedom fighter, so the Wachowskis had to reshoot her scenes with Nona Gaye (Ali). Then Gloria Foster, who played the Oracle, died of diabetes complications in September. Her scenes for Reloaded had been completed, but the filmmakers had to devise a new way to handle the Oracle in Revolutions. New characters: Added to the mix are the Architect, the deitylike designer of the Matrix; the Key-Maker (Randall Duk Kim), a mystical Japanese craftsman whom Neo is told is the one person who can "reach the Source" and thereby save Zion, and Merovingian (Lambert Wilson), a libertine whose insistence on holding the Key-Maker prisoner is an obstacle Neo must circumvent. Monica Bellucci plays Merovingian's jealous wife. Jada Pinkett Smith is cast as Niobe, a former flame of Morpheus. And there's a Neo-worshipping character called the Kid (Clayton Watson), who has a small role in Reloaded but reportedly figures more prominently in Revolutions. What could have been: If the folks at Warner Bros. had the cojones, or perhaps if the Wachowskis could have churned out Reloaded and Revolutions faster, the summer of 2003 might have made history with both installments hitting theaters within weeks of each other. But the proposal sparked "controversy" (read: fear of "lost revenues" due to overlapping play dates), according to Matrix trailer cutter Gary Kanew, and the suits wimped. The Matrix Revolutions is now slated to debut in November. That puts their openings six months apart, which is still a revolutionary idea. Think bookends. Think blitzkrieg. JEFFREY WELLS(September 9, 2002)
From:The Aint it cool news(The detail is here)
Cool News and Some Spoilers about MATRIX 2 & 3!Hey folks, Harry here... Moriarty forwarded this report from Guillaume (via France) to set you folks that keep sending around an alleged MATRIX 2 script online. The script online is... repeat after me... B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T... that's right, BULLSHIT!!! Moriarty has been digging and digging, and has confirmed all of this. However, at the moment, Moriarty is apparently busy on... his own top secret (leaked by VARIETY) film project. If you know Moriarty and know anything about his project, contact me at Harry@aintitcool.com, He may be the Napolean of Movie News, but Austin's original name was Waterloo, and we'll put a stop to all this secrecy! He'll rue the day he kept secrets from me!!! Rue, I'm talking serious Rue-age. Here's the Matrix info... Now... Give me the details on that POST-MAN or whatever it was called project! Here are some details for Matrix 2&3 coming from "Cine Live" (a French mag) in its September edition : - David R. Ellis, 2nd unit director, describes the famous car chase : "Even if you have already seen impressive car chases, you have never seen one where guys jump from car to car and fight in the air in a Matrix style." - Joel Silver, producer, says that "The Matrix Reloaded eplains why and how some of the characters can literally fly in the air, the origin of their superhuman strength. In fact, the Wachowskis imagined this story so as to make a superhero movie." - The bad guy played by Collin Chou is called Seraph. - Monica Bellucci's character is called Persefone, "an evil temptress" according to Joel Silver. - Lambert Wilson, a french actor, plays Monica Bellucci's husband and above all, the role of the king of the virtual world. One of his capacity is notably to program himself in the language he wants. Guillaume
From:The EmpireOnlinehere)
Matrix Viruses Revealed Scary identical twins Adrian and Neil Rayment last night let slip some tantalising clues as to their characters・significance in the most anticipated film of next year, The Matrix Reloaded. Talking of their all-white, dreadlocked karate-kicking personae on BBC's Liquid News, the British twins commented, The play these rogue viruses within the matrix mainframe, We're inherently evil.・ A far cry indeed from their only previous screen success as rather bizarrely - handy hunks to our own Carol Vorderman on ITV's DIY show, Better Homes. And how did these two home improvement experts land parts in one of the coolest films of 2003? That would be because of their black belts in karate, then. The brothers added that along with being identical twins ・being able to kick serious arse was 登ne of the criteria・in a worldwide search the Wachowski brothers undertook to find their new villains. According to these nice young men, the Virii are evil bodyguards to 登ne of the main characters in the film.Our money's on Agent Smith but, given that he's rumoured to clone himself by the thousands in the finale to the film, you wouldn't imagine he'd need much taking care of. The Matrix Reloaded will be released in May 2003 and, according to the brothers, should be doing the rounds at next years Cannes Film Festival. Established since 1st September 2001 by 999 Squares. |
