Whatever happened to The Matrix stars? Everything you need to know about the iconic cast - 25 years after the release of the sci-fi classic that made Keanu Reeves famous READ MORE: How Keanu Reeves became the nicest guy in Hollywood! By Stephen Bisset For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:04 BST, 11 August 2024 | Updated: 00:04 BST, 11 August 2024 e-mail View comments The Matrix famously propelled Keanu Reeves to global fame and broke ground as a genre-defining sci-fi epic. Twenty-five years on, and the action movie remains to be one of the very best in the genre and is still much-loved by viewers today. Released in 1999, it depicts a dystopian future which sees humanity unknowingly trapped inside The Matrix, a simulated reality created by machines to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source.
Computer programmer Thomas Anderson, under the hacker alias Neo, discovers the truth and joins a rebellion against the machine to free themselves from The Matrix. The film soared to huge acclaim and raked in a huge $37.4million in the first five days of its release, and the 'red pill, blue pill' scene has now gone down in pop culture history.
It has inspired three sequels - 2003's The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Reloaded, as well as The Matrix Resurrections, which came out in 2021 after an almost 20-year gap. As the original Matrix marks its 25th anniversary, here's everything you need to know about where the iconic cast are now, from its Hollywood heavyweights to.