Producer Joel Silver also stated in an interview on The Animatrix DVD that he was shown the Ghost in the Shell film during a pitch from the Wachowski brothers to indicate the style and look they wanted for The Matrix.

* 2007 – James McTeigue ( director ) and the Wachowski brothers ( screenplay ), V for Vendetta ( Motion Picture )

They also created a short film for the Wachowski brothers that was centered in the world of The Matrix, titled the Final Flight of the Osiris.

** Wachowski brothers ' film V For Vendetta

Weaving played the title role as V in the 2006 film V for Vendetta, in which he was reunited with the Wachowski brothers, creators of The Matrix trilogy, who wrote the adapted screenplay.

In 2006 Ricci starred in Penelope, a modern fairytale ; and in 2008 she played the female lead in the Wachowski brothers ' feature film adaptation of Speed Racer.

Its story was concurrent with that of The Matrix Reloaded, and featured over an hour of original footage, directed by the Wachowski brothers and starring the cast of the film trilogy, produced exclusively for the game.

The game includes one hour of live action 35 mm film footage written and directed specifically for the game by the Wachowski brothers.

The Wachowski brothers have commented that Smith's gradual humanization throughout The Matrix is a process intended to mirror and balance Neo's own increasing power and understanding of the machine world.

He has also attracted praise from international directors such as James Cameron and the Wachowski brothers.

She is created by the Wachowski brothers and was portrayed by Gloria Foster in the first and second films and Mary Alice in the third film.

Inroads into Hollywood have been made by the company in the form of visual homages from the highly successful sci-fi film directed by the Wachowski brothers, The Matrix, and by creating the animated sequence in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol.

* Bound ( film ), a 1996 film by the Wachowski brothers

The casting director Mali Finn succeeded in bringing Kim to the attention of Wachowski brothers, The Matrix creators.

Wachowski brothers ' thoughts on Keymaker were coming on the spot as various takes were done.

The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie to give explanations of complicated scenes, previews of the then-forthcoming sequels, and interviews with the cast and crew, including the reclusive Wachowski brothers, who rarely give interviews.

In 2006 McTeigue made his directorial debut, directing the Wachowski brothers ' produced film, V for Vendetta.

He left the project the following year, with the film being released in 2008 under the direction of the Wachowski brothers.

Variety reported in April 2009 that the Wachowski brothers and Circle of Confusion were producing an animated feature of Shaolin Cowboy, written and directed by Darrow, and animated by Madhouse.

The Wachowski brothers ' The Matrix trilogy ( 1999 – 2003 ) of science-fiction-action blockbusters borrowed from Woo and wire fu movies and also employed Yuen behind the scenes.

* A brand-new final battle, because the Wachowski brothers felt the ending of The Matrix Revolutions would be a " lame " ending for a video game.

Publisher ADV has compared the series to The Matrix, but the Wachowski brothers have denied it was an influence during the development of the film series.

Inspired in part by the production attitude of Sin City, the expressive animated cinema of Hayao Miyazaki and Andy Warhol, the Wachowski brothers focused Gaeta's sensibilities once more toward new forms of post cinematography, deploying end to end high definition pipelines, comprehensive greenscreen / virtual set processes, fully computer generated race worlds, " 2 and 1 / 2 D " layering methodologies, " faux lensing " as applied to vr photography and " techno color " in pursuit of a different movie experience.

Fist of Legend inspired the Wachowski brothers to hire choreographer Yuen Woo-ping for the fight scenes in The Matrix.

Lana Wachowski ( born Laurence " Larry " Wachowski ; June 21, 1965 ) and Andrew Paul " Andy " Wachowski ( born December 29, 1967 ), known together professionally as The Wachowskis and Wachowski Starship, and formerly as the Wachowski Brothers, are American film directors, writers and producers.

Some of the influential and popular directors from the 1980s to 2000s include James Cameron ( the first two Terminator films, Aliens, True Lies ); Andrew Davis ( Code of Silence, Above the Law, Under Siege ); John Woo ( Hong Kong action films such as Hard Boiled and US-made English-language films such as Hard Target, Broken Arrow and Face / Off ); John McTiernan ( the first and third Die Hard films, Predator, The Last Action Hero ); Ridley Scott ( Black Rain, Black Hawk Down ); The Wachowski Brothers ( The Matrix trilogy ), Andrzej Bartkowiak ( Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ), Robert Rodriguez ( Mexico trilogy, From Dusk till Dawn, Machete ) and Michael Bay ( the first two Bad Boys films, The Rock, Transformers trilogy ); Louis Leterrier ( the first two Transporter films, Unleashed ).

The Wachowski Brothers and directors Tinto Brass, Yasujiro Ozu, Wong Kar-wai, and Jacques Tati sometimes ignored this rule also, as has Lars von Trier in Antichrist.

Déjà vu provides a plot point in The Matrix, a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski.

That said, the story elements and the way the Wachowski Brothers tie together the Matrix movies, the Animatrix shorts, and the game is exceptional.

The Matrix is a science fiction action media franchise created by Andy and Larry Wachowski and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

He performed at the Australasian premiere of " The Matrix Revolutions " at Sydney Opera House, in front of Keanu Reeves and the Wachowski Brothers.

Also in 2002, Perry collaborated with the Wachowski Brothers on games in coordination with their Matrix series of movies.

Later, Ben Watkins in collaboration with Don Davis, spent 6 months In LA working with Don Davis and the Wachowski Brothers for the Matrix series of films and video games.

Before casting him in the role of Neo for the 1999 film The Matrix, the Wachowski Brothers asked Keanu Reeves to read this book ( as well as Simulacra and Simulation and Introducing Evolutionary Psychology ) before even opening the script.

She is a supporting character in the two sequels of the original film, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, and one of the main characters of video game Enter the Matrix, also wrote and directed by The Wachowski Brothers.

McTeigue was apparently going to act as second assistant director for The Matrix film, that is, until the first assistant director, a friend of McTeigue who told him about the project had to drop out, which saw The Wachowski Brothers make McTeigue first assistant.

The Wachowski Brothers saw his work on Hard Boiled, and approached Darrow to do some conceptual work for The Matrix.

The game was written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers, who wrote and directed the three Matrix films.

After working on several Matrix comics, Chadwick was asked by the Wachowski Brothers to write The Matrix Online.

Having worked with authors Larry and Andy Wachowski ( though only Larry was credited on the book ) on Ectokid, Skroce was contacted to create storyboards for The Matrix, which were used by the writing-producing-directing Wachowski-brothers team to help pitch their movie to Warner Bros.

* V for Vendetta ( 2006 ) based on the comics series by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and produced by the Wachowski Brothers.

The MegaSmith was used for gameplay reasons, because though the Wachowski Brothers thought the martyr approach suitable for film, they also believed that in an interactive medium such as a video game ( based upon the successful completion of goals ), this would not work.