Jada Pinkett-Smith In Talks To Reprise Niobe Role In The Matrix 4

Jada Pinkett Smith reportedly in negotiations to reprise her role as Niobe in 'The Matrix 4' Photo Courtesy of Getty Images/Warner Bros. Pictures

She played the resistance pilot in The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, the Enter the Matrix videogame and The Matrix Online multiplayer game. Smith would join a cast that includes Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Neil Patrick Harris and returning cast members Keanu Reeves and Carrie Moss.

The 1999 film had us following Thomas A. Anderson, a seamlessly average computer programmer that worked as a computer hacker known by the name of Neo. When he’s contacted by the legendary hacker named Morpheus, he finds himself targeted by police. As Neo finally comes face to face with Morpheus, he wakes up in the real world….a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity has been captured by a race of machines that live off humans and who imprison their minds in an artificial reality known as the Matrix.

The Wachowski sisters (Lana and Lily) film spawned two sequels (The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions), with the trilogy making $1.6bn worldwide at the box office, and it also spawned an animated anthology feature titled The Animatrix.

Jada Pinkett Smith portrayed Niobe in The Matrix sequels (The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions) who was from Zion, and the captain of the Logos hovercraft. She’s also one of the rebels in the war against the Machines and the Matrix. In the virtual world of the Matrix, Niobe is a gifted martial artist. The character also feature in the Enter The Matrix videogame back in 2003.

Lana Wachowski will be writing the script with Aleksander Hemon and David Mitchell, as well as serve as producer alongside Grant Hill.

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