Will Smith lately shared a video on his Instagram account teasing a doable Matrix undertaking. If you watch the video, you’ll see why I believe that’s the case.
The cryptic message evokes a scene from 1999’s The Matrix. Within the scene, laptop programmer Neo (Keanu Reeves) wakes as much as a immediate on his laptop display screen saying “Get up, Neo…” That’s adopted by a typed-out message: “The Matrix has you. Comply with the white rabbit.”
The video beneath reads: “In 1997, the Wachowskis provided Will Smith the function of Neo in The Matrix. Smith turned it down. He selected Wild Wild West, believing it was a greater match for him on the time. However the query stays: What would The Matrix have been like with Will Smith as Neo? Get up, Will… The Matrix has you.”
As you realize, after starring in a string of massive blockbuster hits like Unhealthy Boys, Males in Black, and Independence Day, the Wachowski’s needed Smith to star in The Matrix.
Smith beforehand talked about why he ended up turning down the undertaking believing that he couldn’t actually see the imaginative and prescient of the movie that they needed to make.
The actor defined what his pitch assembly with the Wachowskis was like and the way it finally led to him turning down the undertaking:
“After we made Males in Black, the Wachowskis, they got here in, and so they had solely accomplished one film, I believe it was referred to as ‘Certain,’ and so they made a pitch for The Matrix.
“Because it seems, they’re geniuses, however there is a tremendous line in a pitch assembly between a genius and what I skilled within the assembly.”
“That is the precise pitch that they made for The Matrix. ‘Dude, we’re pondering like, think about you are in a struggle, you then soar, think about should you might cease leaping in the midst of the soar.'”
“Say that once more?” Smith mentioned to them, and the Wachowskis continued, “‘However then, folks might see round you, 360, whilst you’re leaping, whilst you stopped leaping, proper? And we’re gonna invent these cameras and then folks can see the entire soar whilst you’re stopped in the midst of the soar.'”
He added: “Keanu was excellent. Laurence Fishburne was excellent. If I had accomplished it, as a result of I am black, then Morpheus would not have been black. They have been Val Kilmer.
“I used to be gonna be Neo and Val Kilmer was gonna be Morpheus, so I most likely would have messed The Matrix up. I’d have ruined it. So I did y’all a favor.”
Watch the video that Smith shared beneath and tell us what you suppose it means.
