With four of thenine shortswritten by the Wachowskis themselves,The Animatrixis consideredMatrixcanon.

If you’re looking for a quick overview of The Matrix franchise, we’ve got you covered.

See you in the desert of the real.

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It tells how humans became enslaved by the machine-created Matrix and turned into batteries.

It picks up right after the “Final Flight of the Osiris” short.

‘The Matrix Resurrections’

The Matrix Resurrectionsis set 60 years afterthe events ofThe Matrix Revolutions.

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However, Lana will remain on board as an executive producer.

Kacie Cooper Stotler also contributed to this article.

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The Matrix Poster

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

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Matrix Revolutions Poster

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

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The Matrix Resurrections Poster

To find out if his reality is a physical or mental construct, Mr. Anderson, aka Neo, will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. If he’s learned anything, it’s that choice, while an illusion, is still the only way out of – or into – the Matrix. Neo already knows what he has to do, but what he doesn’t yet know is that the Matrix is stronger, more secure and far more dangerous than ever before.

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