During the development, production and ultimately marketing for the project that became known as The Matrix Resurrections, the name Morpheus was never too far from the forefront of the conversation.
The advent of HBO Max is set to expand the scope of both the established DCEU mythology and its various offshoots, with a number of projects in development for the streaming service that aren't all directly tied to the continuity first launched eight years ago with Zack Snyder's Man of Steel.
It would be an epic understatement to say that Henry Cavill's future as Superman has been under intense scrutiny for the last several years, and the sheer deluge of speculation hasn't been helped by the actor maintaining complete radio silence on the matter.
George Clooney and Ben Affleck recently collaborated on upcoming literary adaptation The Tender Bar, with the former naming the latter as the best director he's ever worked with. The two A-listers clearly struck up a bond, and you'd expect that their conversations may have turned to Batman on more than one occasion.
We're closing in on three years since Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron's Alita: Battle Angel hit theaters, and the fervent fanbase have shown no intention on giving up on a sequel. While they might not be able to will it into existence as they'd surely hope, such dedication surely isn't going unnoticed.
Having already conquered the big screen by establishing a reputation as one of Hollywood's premiere hit factories, Blumhouse has increasingly set its sights on television and streaming. Jason Blum is unquestionably part of the conversation when it comes to naming Hollywood's most successful producers of the last decade, delivering a string of low budget genre movies that have gone on to reap bumper box office rewards.
Such is our reliance on social media these days, panic swept across the internet yesterday when Facebook and Instagram suffered from a lenghty outage. Unable to log on to two of the most popular sites on the planets, everybody simply migrated onto the third instead.
People love Netflix, people love comic book movies and people sure as hell love Keanu Reeves, so combining the three to create a multimedia universe based on the beloved star's graphic novel BRZRKR is a surefire recipe for success.