But John Wick: Chapter Two takes the Matrix connections to another level, with the addition of Morpheus himself, Laurence Fishburne, to the cast.
Not so Fishburne himself, apparently, as the process of getting him involved in John Wick: Chapter Two was as easy as it could’ve possibly been: it was his idea.
Fishburne plays the Bowery King in the film, a prominent figure in the international society of mobsters and assassins that populate John Wick’s world.
From the beginning, John Wick has been a reunion of Matrix alumni.