Lilly Wachowski, the co-director and co-writer of “The Matrix” franchise, hit back at MAGA members co-opting the “red pill” concept from her movies for their political messaging. The filmmaker ...

The choice has always been, relatively speaking, simple: red pill or blue pill. Swallow the red and it’s like eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil—suddenly all the universe’s dark ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a video for Netflix, The Matrix co-creator Lilly Wachowski broke down why the landmark 1999 science fiction film is a ...

Reeves still has the "first red pill that the Wachowskis ever gave me" from the 1999 sci-fi film. Keanu Reeves held on to a memento to remind him to keep going deeper into the rabbit hole. The “Matrix ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a recent appearance on the “So True with Caleb Hearon” podcast, co-director Lilly Wachowski was asked about certain ...

When given the choice between the red pill to innovate the franchise and the blue pill to stay the same, “The Matrix Resurrections” ultimately chose the latter. While “The Matrix Resurrections” ...

"I don't know the future... I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end, I came here to tell you how it's going to begin." The closing monologue of 1999's The Matrix saw Keanu Reeves' ...