![]() Sadly, tragedy would soon necessitate a casting change. She was to play Zee, wife of Nebuchadnezzar crew member Link (Harold Perrineau), in the Matrix sequels and had already filmed her scenes for Reloaded. Her being cast in The Matrix Reloaded and its sequel Revolutions could've helped Aaliyah's film career one day match her music success. Related: What Happened To The Matrix Twins In Reloaded (Are They Dead?)īy the time The Matrix Reloaded began filming in March 2001, both The Matrix and Aaliyah were names known worldwide. In 1999, Aaliyah starred in her first film, alongside Expendables star Jet Li in Romeo Must Die, the soundtrack of which produced another huge hit song in "Try Again." She'd been making music for a while by then and had a bunch of success, but 1998 saw the release of "Are You That Somebody?," one of her biggest hits, which oddly enough was from the Dr. That makes things only slightly awkward for Epic, which produced The Matrix Awakenings in Unreal Engine 5 as a tie-in to Resurrections, and whose chief technology officer, Kim Libreri, and chief creative officer, Donald Mustard, make appearances in the film as Deus Machina employees.Coincidentally, it was around that same time that Aaliyah's star began to fully rise. The Matrix would have also beat out Unreal Tournament, Epic Games’ arena shooter that garnered multiple Game of the Year awards and nominations in 1999. (Another great work of 1999, Gran Turismo 2, launched Dec. As for Quake 3, while it was no doubt a groundbreaking work among multiplayer shooters, it launched Dec. ![]() 29, 1999, and in the West one year later, so it probably wouldn’t have been in the candidate pool of an awards show airing in the first week of December. Others have mentioned Shenmue, but it launched in Japan on Dec. System Shock 2 (Irrational Games/Electronic Arts).Soulcalibur (Project Soul/Namco - launched Sept.EverQuest (Verant Interactive/Sony Online Entertainment).Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (Neversoft/Activision).The shareholders would fire any C-suite officer who didn’t milk that kind of an IP: I mean, can you blame them? Look at all the games The Matrix whooped for its first GOTY. (Although Deus Ex did launch less than a year later.) The scene is basically a meta-joke about the Matrix films’ popularity three video games that Anderson designed were huge hits, so naturally Deus Machina’s parent company - literally Warner Bros., by the way - is demanding a fourth. Agent Smith: The main adversary to Morpheus' plan. Share Morpheus: Captain of the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar, Morpheus believes in The Oracle's prophecy, and he believes he has finally found the One. Still can't believe The Matrix beat out Quake III that year /303QRGUWu5- danny o'dwyer December 26, 2021ĭeus Machina is the name of Anderson’s studio it’s not Eidos’ RPG series coming in second. Dozer: A member of Morpheus' crew, and Tank's brother, Dozer was born in Zion - he never was a slave to the Matrix. Keighley on Sunday revealed that director Lana Wachowski asked for a TGA statuette to use in a key scene, and he was happy to retcon them into his show’s hall of fame. In the world according to The Matrix Resurrections, which premiered on Wednesday, Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards existed 15 years earlier, and The Matrix, a game designed by Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) took home its top prize in ’99. In another instance of reality-writing, The Matrix - the multiple-layers-deep fictional video game - is also a Game of the Year award winner at The Game Awards. In Resurrections, he’s a rockstar video game designer and responsible for a blockbuster trilogy of games called. Anderson is still a programmer, but a vastly more successful one than a cubicle-dwelling “program writer” for respectable software company MetaCortex from the original 1999 movie. The reality that The Matrix has constructed for Thomas Anderson (aka Neo) in The Matrix Resurrections is not the one that fans of the original trilogy will remember.
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