»The Matrix Productions (behind the scenes)«

After the success of the first Matrix-

Joel Silver: Oh boys, I’m so grateful for all the success and money you brought me with the Matrix.

Wachowskis: We were just doing what we love to do, nothing more.

Joel Silver: How would you guys like to make more matrix movies?

Wachowskis: No, we don’t think it would be a good idea. The story is over, they found the One that will save mankind, there’s nothing more to tell.

Joel Silver: Come on it would be great, we can make a trilogy like star wars! Think of all the money!

Wachowskis: No, the matrix pretty much stands alone by itself. There’s no need to make anymore movies about it.

Joel Silver: *pulls out a gun* Listen you bastards, I will kill you both if you don’t turn this movie into a trilogy! I have Warner Brothers breathing down my neck about making more money with the matrix! If you don’t do it, you’ll die!

Wachowskis: Ok, ok… we’ll make it a trilogy just put the gun away.

Joel Silver: Oh, and if anybody asks, tell them the story was always a trilogy to begin with. Ok?

Wachowskis: All right Joel…
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{3 months later}

Wachowskis: Hey Joel, we finally finished the scripts for the 2 sequels. We want to called them Reloaded and Revolutions.

Joel Silver: $$$$!

Wachowskis: We want to make Reloaded accompanied by an anime and a video ga…

Joel Silver: GREAT! Even more money! *reads the scripts* Great scripts Boys, I really gotta hand it you both.

Wachowskis: Thanks.

Joel Silver: But there’s a problem with the script. Here at the end of Revolutions it says Neo destroys the matrix and brings freedom to mankind.

Wachowskis: Yeah, that’s the whole point of the story, that’s what Neo was set up to do from the beginning.

Joel Silver: Well then that means we can’t make anymore matrix movies after the trilogy is over.

Wachowskis: What? Who said anything about making anymore movies after the trilogy is over? We agreed to make it one trilogy and that’s that, no more! And if you do decide to make more, you can do it without us, we want no part of it.

Joel Silver: Whatever, just rewrite the script to make it so the matrix doesn’t get destroyed and leave the story open so Warner Brothers can make more movies and more money afterwards, even if you don’t wont to be a part of it.

Wachowskis: Jesus H. Christ…

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{Few minutes later Joel calls Keanu}

Joel Silver: Hey Keanu, what’s up body ol’ pal?

Keanu: Oh nothing really… what the hell do you want Joel?

Joel Silver: How would you like to make more matrix movies?

Keanu: Isn’t the story over? They found the One the would free mankind.

Joel Silver: Well yeah, but me and Warner Brothers forced the Wachowskis into writing it into a trilogy, wanna come back for it?

Keanu: I don’t know Joel…

Joel Silver: Come on, we’ll make millions, billions, Trillions!

Keanu: All right, ill do it… but I’m only doing 2 more movies and that’s it.

Joel Silver: Well we where really thinking about making 5 trilogies later down th..

Keanu: I SAID 2 MOVIES JOEL!

Joel Silver: …ok…

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{The next day}

Joel Silver: Hey boys, how are things going?

Wachowskis: We rewrote the script and made it so there’s an unsturdy peace settlement that doesn’t mean anything. But don’t worry because fanboys will most likely see a bunch of symbolism that’s not even really there and accept it as some sort original genius ending. So now it’s set up so you can make more movies after the Trilogy is over if you want because the story doesnt have a real ending.

Joel Silver: *reads the new ending* GREAT! But there’s one problem.

Wachowskis: What now?

Joel Silver: Here at the end it says, “Neo and Trinity watch the sunrise with everyone else at the park… the end.”

Wachowskis: What’s wrong with that?

Joel Silver: If we make more money… I mean “movies” after the trilogy is over, then we would have to put the character Neo in them. But Keanu said he’s only doing 2 more movies to complete first the trilogy. So you guys have to rewrite the ending of the revolutions script so Neo won’t be in the story anymore.

Wachowskis: What do you mean?

Joel Silver: You need to kill the Neo character…

Wachowskis: WHAT? Are you fucking crazy? He’s the hero, the star! We could never do such a thing to the fans!

Joel Silver: You both are under Warner Brother’s and my contract, you have to do what we say… kill Neo… Is that in anyway unclear?

Wachowskis: …no…

Joel Silver: And while you’re at it, kill Trinity to. If we make more movies after the trilogy, we can’t have Trinity running around without Neo.

Wachowskis: …ok Lord Joel…

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{the next day}

Wachowskis: Hey Joel, it’s done. You have what you want, we rewrote it. Neo and Trinity are dead, the matrix isn’t destroyed, the machines have all the power, and the humans aren't even free.

Joel Silver: Good job Boys.

Wachowskis: But we don’t know how you’re gonna get the rest of the cast to come back to do this… the ending is horrible, a lot of people are gonna hate it.

Joel Silver: Don’t worry about it, ill get Geata and Woo Ping to disguise the movie with visual effects and kung-fu action scenes. Oh, and don’t worry about the returning cast either. I can get them to sign the contracts to do the movies without them even reading the scripts.

Wachowskis: How are you gonna get them to do that?

Joel Silver: I have my ways…

Wachowskis: Hey Joel, we figured since the matrix is still up after the trilogy is over, maybe we could make another video game afterwards to try to make the disappointed fans happy.

Joel Silver: What kind of a game?

Wachowskis: We’re not sure yet, but something for PS2 and Xbox or something.

Joel Silver: *Cha Ching!$$$$* Hey I have an idea! How about we make an online game!

Wachowskis: Ummm sure… but why do you want to make it online?

Joel Silver: So then we can charge everybody $15 per month! It’s genius! This is great, now all I have to do is hype this trilogy to death! We are going to raise the bar so high that it wont even exist after we are done. It’s going to a whole other world, we will change movies forever$$$!

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{behind closed doors}

Wachowskis: Oh man… what have we done? We are so ashamed of our shelves. We will never talk in public ever again…

I know I may have exaggerated a bit but I think that’s how things really went down during the planning of the sequels.

yup

i dont know....you should have wrote THAT script for like a south park episode cuz thats some funn ****. i dont believe all that, but joel silver DID really fuck things up. oops! srry for cursing, but its true!

I am never In-tune with what goes on behind the set.

LMAO! thats hilarious

neosuffice3 wrote:

i dont know....you should have wrote THAT script for like a south park episode cuz thats some funn ****. i dont believe all that, but joel silver DID really fuck things up. oops! srry for cursing, but its true!

I don't think Joel Silver messed up M2 & M3 I think expectations were so high for these sequels that they didn't live up to some fans. I loved the sequels and I am begging for more I like the video game route but I want another movie. I actually watched M1 Friday plan on watching M2 tomorrow and M3 the day after.

appreciate mate for the effort it took you to write this whole piece of comedy....good one

brilliant

This 'backstage story' was funny to read! Really.

Nevertheless, I do not agree with it. The end of the third part was brilliant. To let Neo and Trinity die was an awesome idea. The couple in love, killed in the attempt to save mankind. That's just so wonderful tragically. A sweet pain. And the open end, with a fragile peace and the hope for a new start for mankind... I love it.

The only sad thing about Revolutions is, that the brothers & company totally srewed up the part between the start of Revolutions and this superb ending.

That's funny! Read it!

LOL!

Awesome shit man...I agree with that guy who said you should have written this for a South Park episode...

I tried to tell you Joel Silver was god. I wonder if jake is still alive?

This is so true:

Quote:

But don’t worry because fanboys will most likely see a bunch of symbolism that’s not even really there and accept it as some sort original genius ending.

th3 p4th wrote:

This is so true: Quote: But don’t worry because fanboys will most likely see a bunch of symbolism that’s not even really there and accept it as some sort original genius ending.

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

Sideways goading is quite twisted.

Jake The Snake wrote:

Wachowskis: Hey Joel, we figured since the matrix is still up after the trilogy is over, maybe we could make another video game afterwards to try to make the disappointed fans happy. Joel Silver: What kind of a game? Wachowskis: We’re not sure yet, but something for PS2 and Xbox or something. Joel Silver: *Cha Ching!$$$$* Hey I have an idea! How about we make an online game! Wachowskis: Ummm sure… but why do you want to make it online? Joel Silver: So then we can charge everybody $15 per month! It’s genius! This is great, now all I have to do is hype this trilogy to death! We are going to raise the bar so high that it wont even exist after we are done. It’s going to a whole other world, we will change movies forever$$$!

Lol! Thats great! All they wanted was $.

ENTER THE MATRIX SUCKED! :barf:

The Matrix Path of Neo and the Matrix Online are OK though!

Quote:

***************************************** JOEL Andy! Great to hear from you again. Has your brother gone into labor yet? ANDY What do you want, Joel? I told you we're not doing- JOEL -a Matrix part 7. Yes, I know. But we've talked to Keanu and he swears he can drop 50 pounds and- ANDY Dammit, Joel. Neo died in part 6. AGAIN. It's the fourteenth time he's died in the series. We showed his body being burned and his ashes being shot into the sun. We even had that scene at the end where God himself came down from Heaven and declared that Neo and Trinity would never, ever, ever return lest all of existance be unmade. JOEL Oh, I'm glad you mentioned Trinity. Carrie-Ann is close to signing- ANDY Joel, I'm getting death threats from fans. JOEL You're breaking up here, I'm almost out of my service area. Quickly, we got Joe Pantaliano's verbal agreement to do the film in exchange for some food and a better box to sleep in- ANDY Joel, you do this, and I WILL KILL YOU. Do you understand? JOEL -and Warner wants this one PG-13. It'll be tough, but I told them you were my guys and you could do it. So we're just gonna take out all of the fight scenes, it's perfect. It's better than perfect, I love it. ANDY AGH! JOEL Also - I'm blueskying with Gabriel and he suddenly says -and you will LOVE this- that if the movies were only a half hour long, we could have like thirty showings a day. So we're thinking, "How to trim the time?" and it hits me. The bullet time! It's in slow motion, for crissakes, right? You ditch that, you're in at 30 minutes with a whisper! ANDY KILL YOU. BULLETS IN YOU AND KILL. SO MUCH ANGRY. JUST. JOEL I TOLD Gabriel you'd love it. Also, I'll need a script by nine tonight. LARRY NO! JOEL ...and the money truck will be by around 9:30. ANDY Oh. A pause. ANDY Yeah, alright. LARRY Actually, those were some great ideas, Joel. JOEL Homerun Joel! That's why you guys call me Homerun Joel! We hear a CLICK and a DIAL TONE. LARRY But that's not what we call him. ANDY Shut up and get your writing pad. THE END ****************************************