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The Matrix is one of my favorite movies... so I'll have center seats in a modern Dolby theater on opening day.
Due to the actor's aging... I'm thinking it would have to be forward on the timeline right? but Trinity is dead... & supposedly Neo is too, though he realistically could still be alive too though.
Okay, so here's my theory.
Remember when Neo held off the squids with the power of his will at the end of Ep. 3? That tells me that they were never even out of the Matrix during the entire Trilogy.So Neo wakes up (suposedly) "for real" & finds Trinity in the pods. Perhaps he jacks in & finds Trinity in the Matrix... for a nice roll reversal after she was supposedly the one who found him in the first movie. Could be fun!!!
Like the Architect said, they've been dealing with these "anomaly" types over & over, & they created & destroyed Zion on purpose over & over. We all assumed it was real world though. However, with a little bit of clever programming, they could easily have created an alternate program where the rebel types think they're being removed from the pods, but meanwhile they're still actually tucked nice & neat into their pods just like they always have.
& with their rebellious spirit & will to survive, I can imagine they would be that much better of a "battery" for the machines.
So now in Ep. 4... we'll see Neo actually escape irl. The big question obviously then will be "is it even real life."
Of course this all goes into the metaphysical reality of our own 3D world that was the premise of the whole original movie & trilogy. THE MATRIX IS REAL. The only way we can recognize 3D reality it is through our senses... & that all boils down to electrical impulses in the brain... so how real is it? Even physicists have calculations for a holographical universe. Think about that for a minute. Our whole reality is nothing but a hologram that we're all connected to atm.
So the beauty of the Matrix movies is bringing up this question that perhaps there's more to this life than we realize. This is the symbology that the Matrix movie was built on. & so the possible Ep. 4 scenario I wrote above, would play right into that... & give people another really close look at what exactly is "real." Everyone thought the original Trilogy was real world, but if it wasn't then that's just another level of illusion. "Layers & Layers" as Morpheus said.
"If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." -MorpheusKenny Florian
I love the Matrix movies and I do think a good writer could come up with a great story set in that universe, because there is definitely potential for it. But having Reevs and Moss back is something I think fans will reject unless they are the focal point of whatever adventure happens, which they won't be because their story is concluded. If they are relegated to some background role or cameo, fans won't like it, IMO.
The first Matrix movie had so much mystery around it. The trailers didn't give away anything. The mystery is revealed so skillfully as the movie plays out and really wraps it all up with a rousing 3rd act. They'll never replicate that. Ever. I really don't know what angle they could start a new story from without rehashing the same themes as the originals.