{"id":116099,"date":"2017-03-15T10:03:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T08:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116099"},"modified":"2017-03-15T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T08:05:03","slug":"a-reboot-of-the-matrix-is-in-the-works-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/116099-a-reboot-of-the-matrix-is-in-the-works-report","title":{"rendered":"A reboot of The Matrix is in the works &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to sources at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/matrix-reboot-works-at-warner-bros-986292\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/a>, Warner Bros. is developing a reboot of The Matrix.<\/p>\n<p>Development of the reboot is in the early stages and Zak Penn is reportedly in talks to write a treatment for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Penn has done script work on a number of big films, including The Avengers and X-Men: The Last Stand.<\/p>\n<p>Black Panther and Creed star Michael B. Jordan is a potential candidate for the lead role in the reboot.<\/p>\n<p>The Wachowski siblings, who wrote and directed the original movie, are reportedly not involved in the new project.<\/p>\n<p>Original Matrix star Keanu Reeves told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.movies.yahoo.com\/keanu-reeves-is-up-for-the-matrix-4-exclusive-135415356.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo! Movies<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0he would be interested in participating in a Matrix reboot, but only if the Wachowski siblings wrote and directed the film.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/202786-a-matrix-reboot-is-in-the-works-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/190758-top-10-movies-of-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top 10 movies of 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to sources at the Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. is developing a reboot of The Matrix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":96337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12157,1817],"class_list":["post-116099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-matrix","tag-reboot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116101,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116099\/revisions\/116101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}