With last year’s news about “The Martian” screenwriter Drew Goddard taking the helm from Lana and Lily Wachowski for a new “Matrix” film, Laurence Fishburne expressed his hesitancy in reprising his role as Morpheus in a future iteration of the sci-fi franchise.

“It depends on how good it is, really,” Fishburne said on stage at “ The Matrix ” reunion at New York Comic Con 2025. “If it’s great, then yeah, if it makes sense. I don’t know if it makes sense.”

Fishburne added that he had reached out to the Wachowski sisters about starring in “The Matrix Resurrections,” but was ultimately not invited to return for the sequel.

“I reached out,” revealed Fishburne. “It just didn’t pan out. I said ‘Thank you very much,’ And Lana [Wachowski] said, ‘Thank you very much, I’ll think about it,’ a

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