Totally exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Reloaded and Revolutions. They will be released within 6 months of one another. In one part of the story, the writer said that one Newsweek reporter and a bunch of studio execs were given the opportunity to preview a 20-minute version of the $300 million films. They said that when the lights went up, they were scraping their jaws off of the floor. They actually built a 2-mile freeway (at $300K per 1/4 mile) for one action sequence and took 27 days to film a fight scene. They developed brand new technologies that completely remove the line between what is real on film and what is a digital reproduction. They said that, like the first one, it will send filmmakers scurrying to keep up with the incredible technological leaps made. Also, the climactic sequence in the third film, Revolutions, cost 2/3 of THE ENTIRE MOVIE BUDGET OF THE FIRST MATRIX (over $65 million) just to make! Whoa!
If this "virtual cinematography" is everything they are cracking it up to be...holy cow, watch out. That is just the kind of tool the Wachowski's need to make the greatest movie of all time. If nothing else, it sounds like it will have the greatest car chase scene ever.
I wish somebody cool could have directed LOTR. LOTR should have been something that was unbelievable. Instead, it was sort of lame, but saved somewhat by the story itself.
