Warner Bros. is working on a new Matrix movie. Last year it was said that the studio was working on a possible Matrix 4 with writer Zak Penn.

If you recall, fans were outraged, thinking it was a reboot, but it’s NOT, the movie is a continuation. Zak Penn made it clear that he has no intention of starting over with the Matrix 4. Read on…

CelebNMovies247.com has learned that Zak Penn revealed that his plans for the new Matrix project includes expanding the existing Matrix universe.

While the writer was promoting his upcoming film Ready Player One, which hits theaters March 29, Penn said Matrix 4 will expand the existing Matrix universe. In fact, he’s been “harassing” Warner Bros. to bring this franchise back for several years.

Here is what Penn spoke had to say to Screen Rant about Matrix 4:

I’ve been working on Matrix right now. Which is in…a phase right now. That’s a franchise I desperately want to see brought back and, I can’t go in to too much detail, but I’ve been harassing Warner Bros. for years to try to get it going again so that’s one thing I’m working on and I’ve been working on a bunch of other things too. I will fight people who don’t under…look, I think OASIS (the interconnected virtual space in Ready Player One) is similar, both the Matrix and OASIS are similar in that they are brilliant ideas for universes. And they are not, you know, when it came out about Matrix, people were like ‘Oh no, there going to reboot Matrix I was like, Why, I’m not insane. I mean, The Matrix is still one of my favorite…they’d re-release The Matrix and people would go see it.

He adds that Ready Player One is similar to what the Matrix is and was in the first trilogy:

I was at the premiere and I was still like, this was better than I ever expected. So I just think that universe is brilliant, I think OASIS is like the action-comedy version of that and it doesn’t always have to be the same characters, you could go in so many different directions so…

It’s been said that the studio is looking at Michael B. Jordan to star in Matrix 4, but that was when it was rumored that he’d be playing a younger version of Morpheus, the iconic character played by Laurence Fishburne in the original Matrix trilogy. Weather or not it is a prequel or sequel we look forward to another Matrix film.