The team making the fourth Matrix movie were, along with most other film productions, stymied earlier this year when the Coronavirus pandemic forced shooting to shut down until stay-at-home and other orders are lifted. Which now means that to start things back up again, Warner Bros. is having the cast agree to contract extensions so they'll be available once the studio gets the cine-gears grinding.
According to Variety, the hope is to have the film back in production this July, rounding out work that began in February in San Francisco before a scheduled shift to Berlin was scuppered (the crew were setting up, but no cameras rolled) by the crisis.
Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Jada Pinkett Smith are back from the original trilogy, joined by Jessica Henwick, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Neil Patrick Harris, Brian J. Smith and Jonathan Groff, among others.
Lana Wachowski is back co-writing and directing this time, but the story is, as you'd expect, being kept quiet for now. Warners is hoping the movie can still arrive next year, but hasn't yet confirmed an exact date, waiting to see if shooting kicks off again as planned.