Keanu Reeves has offered further insight into the intriguing direction of upcoming sci-fi sequel, The Matrix Resurrections, describing the movie as the “inverse” of the original trilogy. The Matrix Resurrections will see Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reunite and reprise their respective roles of Neo and Trinity, with the two characters undergoing some serious changes this time around.

“I mean, I would pitch that Resurrections is a kind of dynamic inverse of the trilogy. [...] Where in the trilogy Trinity’s trying to support and wake up Thomas Anderson, now Thomas Anderson is in that position and role for Trinity. And where he’s supposed to be the one that’s going to be the… I don’t want to give too much away. But the relationship is different. It’s inverse. Yeah. Or maybe the opposite? Inverse-opposite? I don’t know.”

In a conversation with Uproxx, Keanu Reeves seems to suggest that Neo and Trinity will swap places in The Matrix Resurrections. We have seen from the recent trailers that Neo will be the one to escape the digital prison the Matrix this time, and, in a reversal of the first outing, will attempt to free Trinity. While the footage glimpsed so far has shown Neo use the powers of The One, this inverse approach (as well as Reeves’ suspicious trailing off mid-sentence) could confirm what many have suspected about Trinity’s new role as The Matrix Resurrections’ chosen one.

Despite several trailers, much of The Matrix Resurrections continues to remain a mystery. One of the movie’s biggest mysteries is how and why Neo and Trinity have returned, especially as the couple both met their end come the finale of the original trilogy. It was first suspected that Trinity would be nothing more than a digital creation, but we have since seen the character in the real-world being tended to by the machines. Could it be that, in this newest version of The Matrix, Trinity has become The One, with Neo tasked with opening her eyes to the truth and her destiny?

Produced, co-written, and directed by Lana Wachowski, The Matrix Resurrections has amassed a stellar cast alongside Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, including Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lambert Wilson, Daniel Bernhardt, Eréndira Ibarra, Christina Ricci, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Telma Hopkins, Max Riemelt, Toby Onwumere, Brian J. Smith, Andrew Caldwell, and Ellen Hollman.

Set twenty years after the events of The Matrix Revolutions, the follow-up finds Neo living a seemingly ordinary life under his original identity as Thomas A. Anderson in San Francisco. Haunted by dreams of adventures past, he is now seeing a therapist who prescribes him mysterious blue pills. Thomas then meets a woman, Trinity, but neither of them recognize each other. However, when a new version of Morpheus offers him the red pill and reopens his mind to the world of the Matrix, which has become more secure and dangerous in the years since the Smith infection, Neo joins a group of rebels to fight a new enemy.

The Matrix Resurrections is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures theatrically on December 22, 2021. The movie will also stream digitally on HBO Max in the United States for a month beginning on that same date.