In yet other snippets, we watch hands reaching through mirrors, like when Neo touched the liquid glass in the first movie just before waking up in the real world. In other clips, we watch Neo take blue pills in front of a mirror but his reflection isn’t right at all - looking back at Reeves is a much older man. There are other strange things going on with mirrors in these teasers. He looks intently into the mirror, noticing how its surface turns to liquid when he touches it.
The first shot we see in the teaser for the Abdul-Mateen character shows him staring at himself in the mirror, condensation on the glass made to resemble Matrix code (“digital rain”) over the mystery man’s face.
Since Abdul-Mateen was cast, rumors have persisted that he’s playing a younger Morpheus, which seems to be confirmed by the teasers, but, again, things might not be as they seem. As revealed by Fishburne himself last year, he wasn’t invited back to reprise his iconic role despite Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss being tapped to return, along with Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe, Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian, and Daniel Bernhardt as Agent Johnson. But before we jump into some of the images, you might be wondering why it’s Abdul-Mateen who seemingly filling the Morpheus role and not Laurence Fishburne. Wild Things ( Carol, K.W.The teasers are accompanied by a few shots of Abdul-Mateen’s character, who looks every bit like Morpheus, but there are also several scenes that suggest…well, that this couldn’t be further from the truth. The Goonies ( Mikey, Brand, Chunk, Mouth, Data, Andy & Stef) | Jackson were considered for the role of Morpheus. In Saints Row IV after completing Benjamin King's loyalty mission, King Me, his virtual appearance is changed to resemble Morpheus.Leave a message after the tone."īenjamin King as a Morpheus based Super Homie "You have reached the Daniel Institute of Dream Interpretation.The Agents levelled their wrath on the helpless, and Neo was the only one who could stand against them." Sentinels set a trap for one of our ships, and from the ship's mainframe they extracted a list of potentials. But, because they were unable to stop Neo, the Machines turned their attention to those within their grasp. "Between the coming of the One and the end of the war, Neo's presence within the Matrix sparked a new exodus of potentials.