Though obviously inspired by earlier comics, cartoons, books, and films, The Matrix was entirely its own thing; it wasn’t directly based on anything.
These days you don’t make something like that; you just remake the last thing that was like that.
These days, there’s basically nothing like it, either in its formal daring, or that lack of pre-awareness and what THR calls “branded IP.”
(Then again, maybe the budget needed to replicate or exceed the series’ mind-bending special effects wouldn’t work on TV.)
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