The Matrix Resurrections has revealed most of its returning cast ahead of the film’s highly anticipated release later this month. We’ve seen Keanu Reeves return as a more grungy Neo, Carrie-Anne Moss as a leather jacket-wearing grease monkey version of Trinity, and even Daniel Bernhardt has reappeared as Agent Johnson. But there are a few other returnees we haven’t seen, such as Jada Pinkett Smith’s Niobe, the ship’s captain who played a pivotal role in the two Matrix prosecute.
Then there’s Lambert Wilson’s elusive Merovingian, the filthy information broker and crime boss who was obsessed with cause and effect in The Matrix reloaded and gave it a great bondage party revolutions. Warner Bros. has kept the villain’s return close at heart, but a new teaser announcing the presale date finally lifts the curtain on a Merovinger who is 20 years older and has clearly seen better days.
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It’s an instant and you’ll miss the moment, one of the many deja vu teased in the promo, but it’s enough to know that we won’t get the Merovingian we expect in resurrections. In the screenshot below, you can see a much more scruffy, bearded version of the Frenchman whose days of eating at the fanciest restaurants in Mega City are certainly way behind him. (He looks a bit like the Trainman played by Bruce Spence in revolutions, isn’t it?) Gone is also the usual smugness on his face, replaced by despair or fear. His reunion with Neo, Trinity and Morpheus should be very interesting.
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