Interesting Facts from IMDB.com - The Matrix Reloaded
(2003)
Deaths:
- Actress/Singer Aaliyah was originally cast in the role
of Zee but was killed in a plane crash on 25 August 2001.
- Gloria Foster (The Oracle) also died before the end of
shooting the second Matrix film. She had done most of her
scenes for Reloaded but had not done any for the third film.
Timeline:
- This film and the sequel (Matrix Revolutions, The (2003))
took four years to make, and were filmed back to back.
- The sequels took so long to finish because several CGI
firms went bankrupt while working on rendering the effects
for both movies.
- The film's concluding highway chase sequence took 45 days
to shoot (longer than many films' entire shooting schedule).
- It took four years to render the effects in this movie
using several companies, a task which would have taken one
computer in upwards of 300 years to accomplish.
- The 100 Agent Smiths battle alone took two years to complete.
Costs:
- A 17-minute battle sequence alone cost over $40 million.
- The 2-mile loop highway was built specifically for this
film for a chase scene on the decommissioned Alameda Point
Navy Base at a cost of over $2.4 million.
- It was reported that Keanu Reeves volunteered to give
up a claim to a share of ticket sales amounting to around
$38 million when producers feared that the film would never
recoup the cost of the special effects.
- The special effects alone cost $100 million U.S.
- GM donated 300 cars for use in the production of the movie.
All 300 were wrecked by the end.
Top-secret script:
- The script for the movie (while in production) was code-named
"The Burly Man". This came from an epic fight
that the developers code named "The Burly Brawl".
Top-secret promo items:
- Matrix Reloaded promotional material was in such high
demand, that distributors were extremely worried about it
being stolen. To combat this, standees and banners were
sent out with the code names of "Caddyshack 2"
and "The Replacements". Several cinemas thought
they had not received the materials due to these names,
and as such, did not display them until the last minute.
Injuries:
- Carrie-Anne Moss broke her leg training for a wire stunt.
- Laurence Fishburne fractured an arm in another training
incident.
- Hugo Weaving put out a disc in his neck while being pulled
back on a wire.
Hacking:
- When Trinity hacks the Power Station's computer, the password
she uses is "Z10N0101".
- Trinity uses a genuine hack to get into the Matrix. She
uses Nmap version 2.54BETA25 (an actual port scanning tool)
to find a vulnerable SSH server, and then proceeds to exploit
it using the SSH1 CRC32 exploit from 2001.
Quotes:
- Morpheus' line, "I had a dream, and now that dream
is gone from me," is a quote from King Nebuchadnezzar
in the Bible.
No Quotes:
- The Wachowski brothers' contract for doing the Matrix
Reloaded, and Matrix Revolutions, included a stipulation
that would not have to do any media interviews.
Cloning:
- Only a few of the Agent Smith clones were actually played
by Hugo Weaving. Open casting calls for males with similar
body shapes and structures took place, and Weaving's head
was superimposed on them later.
Council:
- The Council in Zion consists of 18 people - 12 women,
and six men.
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