the wachowskis

  • The Matrix’s Queer Subtext Is Plain Text in Resurrections

    The Matrix’s Queer Subtext Is Plain Text in Resurrections

    Up until Resurrections, the Matrix series hasn’t directly acknowledged LGBTQ people at all. Switch was written as trans in the original Matrix screenplay but the character was changed for the finished film, because studio executives were confused. That didn’t stop queer readings of the work, of course, which intensified after directors Lana and Lilly Wachowski…


  • When Lana Wachowski Asks You to Write Matrix 4, You Say ‘Yes’

    When Lana Wachowski Asks You to Write Matrix 4, You Say ‘Yes’

    Even Lana Wachowski’s closest friends never thought she’d do a fourth Matrix. Writers David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon worked with Wachowski on her Netflix show Sense8 (Mitchell also wrote the Cloud Atlas novel the Wachowskis helped adapt), and knew Warner Bros. had been asking her and sister Lilly to return to the world the siblings…