Lana Wachowski Opens Up about How 'Grief' Rebooted 'The Matrix'

Lana Wachowski related the origins of the latest "Matrix" movie, "The Matrix: Resurrections" – the fourth in the series – to the deaths of her parents in comments made at the film's premiere, The Hollywood Reporter detailed.

"Lana moved home to care for them and has said that the painful experience led her to seek out something soothing in the form of writing as comfort," THR recounted, going on to add that this was how Lana Wachowski "found a way back into the story."

But Lilly Wachowski had a completely different reaction to the idea, Lana said.

"When mom and dad passed, I went to [Lilly] and said, 'Look, this idea came to me. I can see that it's about me working with my grief, and I was thinking, do you want to work on it together?'

"I thought maybe it would be cool that we go back, and we go back together and this thing that where we started. And she said, 'I get it, I know, I see, I feel it, but this is not what I want to do,' " Lana Wachowski told the entertainment outlet.

"That's what grief does," Lana added. "Grief spirals us off in different directions," such as Lilly's current project for Showtime, "Work in Progress," which Lana said contains "a lot of Mom and Dad."

Meantime, Lilly – also openly trans – had already addressed her own reasons for not wanting to be part of the reboot of the hugely popular franchise that she helped create in the late '90s. As previously reported at EDGE, Lilly explained last summer that, to her, "There was something about the idea of going backwards and being a part of something that I had done before that was expressly unappealing."

"The films were made, she explained, before she went through her transition to living in her truth as a woman in 2016," the earlier EDGE article clarified.

"Like, I didn't want to have gone through my transition and gone through this massive upheaval in my life, the sense of loss from my mom and dad... and sort of walk over old paths that I had walked in," Lilly added. "Like I was going to go back and live in these old shoes in a way. And I didn't want to do that."

Before those comments, Lilly Wachowski had addressed what she called the "trans narrative" of the original "Matrix" trilogy.

" 'The Matrix' stuff was all about the desire for transformation, but it was all coming from a closeted point of view," Lilly said on a "Netflix Film Club" clip in August 2020.

"I love how meaningful those films are to trans people, and they come up to me and say, 'These movies saved my life,' " Lilly said in the clip.