Sitting atop the carnage and chaos of a creatively-bankrupt world, the great god of the machines sticks humans in pods and treats them to a fictional reality while sucking the life out of them.
But enough about Hollywood.
(For maximum effect, please read the following paragraph in the voice and manner of the Architect.)
The aggregate quality of the Matrix sequels coupled with that of the post-Matrix Wachowski ouvre cannot in any way suggest that this is going to be any good whatsoever. Nevertheless this project has been incepted, likely due to the fact that an unsought sequel is the only way the Wachowskis could get their hands on camera equipment again.
Fortuitously, there is no indication that The Matrix Resurrections will pull a Weekend at Yoda's-style Subversion Of Expectations by appropriating all of the protagonist's power and agency and transferring it to a female plank. While it is true that there is a younger Person Of Color who could be being set up as Neo 2, the trailer, at least, appears to be telling us that Neo will in fact continue to be the main protagonist. Which is simply not the case with any of the Weekend at Yoda's trailers.
(Update: apparently that's Morpheus, because they couldn't get Laurence Fishburne back.)
On the minus side, there was a terrible lack of Hugo Weaving in the trailer, and that's just sad.
On the funny side, Zack Snyder used "White Rabbit" in a Matrix-esque first. Ha ha.
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