All eyes at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Pageant shall be on the hotly anticipated premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s self-funded epic Megalopolis. Laurence Fishburne is a part of the ensemble forged and is not any stranger to debuting an expensive, high-profile mission at Cannes.
In 2003, Fishburne hit the Croisette for the Wachowskis’ motion sequel The Matrix Reloaded, by which he reprised his position as Morpheus after originating the character within the 1999 sci-fi smash. Additionally in attendance was Fishburne’s then-wife Gina Torres, who performed Cas within the sequels.
After The Matrix launched viewers to Neo (Keanu Reeves), a pc hacker who discovers that people have been enslaved in a simulation engineered by AI machines, Reloaded catches up six months later with Neo’s journey alongside Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus as they battle the Machine Military. THR’s evaluate was lukewarm however famous that Fishburne “handles effectively the transition to somebody who isn’t fairly a sidekick, but should recede into a task that requires him to be the conduit of the Wachowskis’ philosophical musings.”
Fishburne will deliver Coppola’s musings to the display screen alongside Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, and Jon Voight in Megalopolis, the director’s first function since he debuted Twixt on the Toronto Movie Pageant in 2011.