Osiris Reloads The Matrix
Scifi.com — Joel Silver, producer of the upcoming sequel film The Matrix Reloaded, told SCI FI Wire that the computer-animated short film Final Flight of the Osiris leads directly into the highly anticipated film.
Osiris—one of nine upcoming animated Animatrix shorts—will screen in theaters alongside Warner Brothers’ Dreamcatcher, which opens March 21.
Reloaded “starts with Final Flight,” Silver said in an interview.
“You’re beginning to see the story of the movie. There’s a machine army. There seems to be an enormous amount of sentinels that are available. There seem to be tunneling somehow to Zion. And that starts the movie. That starts the plot.”
Final Flight of the Osiris, written by The Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski, is one of the anime-style shorts that make up the Animatrix.
Four additional segments will be made available for download, Silver said.
“The first one was up on the Web site a month ago, on Feb. 4,” Silver said. “We’ve had 4 million downloads of that. … We have the new one up. … I think we had 250,000 downloads in the first hour it went up. … Another one will come up again in April and another one in May.”
The entire Animatrix will be released on DVD on June 3. The Matrix Reloaded opens in theaters May 15.
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