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Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss to return in new Matrix film

Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Lana Wachowski are returning to the world of The Matrix.

Lana Wachowski returns for fourth installment

Keanu Reeves in The Matrix.
Keanu Reeves is set to return in a fourth instalment of The Matrix franchise. (Warner Bros.)

Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Lana Wachowski are returning to the world of The Matrix.

Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich says Tuesday that a fourth Matrix is in the works.

Reeves will be reprising his role as Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss will return as Trinity in the film that will be co-written, directed and produced by Wachowski, who co-created The Matrix with Lilly Wachowski.

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are seen attend the Australian premiere of The Matrix in Sydney, in 1999. (Patrick Riviere/Getty Images)

Lana Wachowski says in a statement that the ideas of The Matrix are more relevant than ever now and she's happy to have the characters back in her life. Emmerich calls Wachowski a true visionary.

The first film hit theatres 20 years ago and spawned two sequels that cumulatively made more than $1.6 billion US at the global box office.

No release date has been set. 

1999's The Matrix and its subsequent two sequels cumulatively made more than $1.6 billion US at the global box office. (Warner Bros./Village Roadshow)