For a moment I got him and Matt Smith confused and wondered why he would have has anything to do with Inception.

Edit: came out in 2010, so scratch that thought. For a moment I had a mental collapse and thought it came out late 90s.

I get what you mean/agree, but to play devil's advocate, his character in Enemy of the State could've sorta worked as Neo.

Thank the lord!

Yeah, no joke lol. Jamie Foxx absolutely knocked it out the park.

Will smiths thing is most similar to dwayne johnson, he wanted to be the LEAD or the most prominent actor and not the side character

It’s not just the very ending, unless you mean the entire 2nd half… it just felt like there were two entirely different movies made, and they took the first half of one and haphazardly grafted it on to the second half of the other. The tonal whiplash alone was crazy.

I feel like that sort of movie mismatched has happened a lot over the years. I figure that producer meddling or overfitting to test-screening reactions is typically the cause.

I thought they considered Smith for DiCaprios role, like in Inception.

well , excuse me for the AI haters out there. But we gotta do this.

Seedance, c'mon boy, DO IT!!!

Will Smith as NEO in the Matrix.

EDIT: I found one, a year old but it checks out

It's a reddit post

• You hear that mr Anderson? The sound of inevitability.
• My name is the Doctor!

What do you mean, he played the genie, and, oh right...

So what? He's still doing fine. Was he supposed to be in every blockbuster ever made?

He also won an Oscar. Keanu didn't. I don't think that doing Matrix or Inception would have a big impact on his career.

I imagine him throwing some Bad Boys type energy into the lobby shootout.

There would be too many wisecracks. Did keanu even smile as Neo?

It is crazy how I always think of that movie as "early career Will Smith before he became famous quippy superstar" but it released between Men In Black and Wild Wild West.

And that car, though.

I mean, it had nothing to do with him, but still. Goddamn sexy car.

Some people are not set up for science fiction or fantasy at all. Will Smith is a borderline case, though.

I think with The Matrix specifically it has to do with the physicality. Late 90s Will Smith was in shape and could do big, bombastic action, but I can't imagine him doing precise martial arts moves without it looking like a comedy.

Didn't you do a sci-fi with his kid? I've never seen it and I have no idea what it was about or what it was called but I'm sure it was a sci-fi.

You get that we wanted dialogue right? We can all imagine Will Smith in a leather jacket with slow motion bullets moving around him.

Every time someone who is pro AI tries to advocate for it it always comes off as their brain having turned to porridge. You get we can see that image in our minds, we don't need it visualised for us at the expense of half an olympic swimming pool worth of water and at least six trees.

Agreed, but I also firmly believe there is another universe in which we could believably type “Keanu Reeves would have been disastrous in The Matrix”

Oh yeah that's right, the DiCaprio role was going to be a Clayton Bigsby type

Made me laugh. I dont know how true it is but its funny. :)

There are Ai clips now on YouTube where they replace actors in famous movies, like putting Tom Cruise in the matrix or whatever.

I dont watch them because I dont want my nice memories of these movies to be overwritten, but it shows how easy it is today to do.

He was interviewed by Czech TV during the premiere and was asked if the viewers should go see it. He said that he's getting paid for every ticket sold and therefore yes! Everyone should see it!

I know kung fu

The jiggy with guy dumb?

The wild wild west guy dumb?

Yes

He was fine with the script up to following the white rabbit.

After Earth. It's kinda lightweight as far as sci fi goes.

Yeah but that would go both ways. Imagine he did the matrix and it maybe worked out. People would now be like: can you imagine the shitty actor Keanu Reeves was going to play neo in the matrix?

Ever heard about his wife?

Thats what we all said about Keanu. He was a joke at the time. Or rather basically type cast. Even in the more serious roles he was pretty goofy. Speed comes to mind. The Matrix gave me and many i know a bigger liking for the young silly Ted Logan.

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He's done quite a bit of sci-fi! Off the top of my head I can think of

• Men in Black
• I, Robot
• I am Legend
• Independence Day

Laurence Fishburne was a big face at the time if i remember correctly. Keanu had just done Speed and The Devils Advocate. That was a strange movie.

His acting as the genie was OK. But it was very clear that he was acting in the shadow of Robin Williams for that role. It is kinda hard to move away from that one however.

Nah sure, giant mecha-spider in the Wild West is more straightforward I guess.

(Speaking of which Kevin Smith did a ride of a story about a superman movie that never got made, which ties into that very same Mecha-spider)

Let's all get jiggy with it!

I remember liking LOEG

Basically the same character in all those movies. Not a criticism but it's the same dude. Neo is not a bad ass running down a cephalopod. He's learning and adapting to a system and using his mind. I just dont see it working out as well as he is a front man, not a team. He takes over the story with personality.

Agreed and his personality takes over the story which works for men in black but I don't think it would for the matrix.

The bald one?

With this crisis of new stories to tell, with this incessant demand and lack of offer, it would be interesting to see the movies that famously never were made or would have been made differently with other directors, protagonists, scripts, adaptations, etc.
I'd still avoid them, but a Matrix film starring Will Smith would be a success selling tickets.

uh-huh yeah ha ha woo uh huh am I dreaming or is this real, sleep all day, gotta get that feel ha ha yeah oh uh the city is spinning, but ya see ha ha I ain't dipping. gotta get the reception, ha ha yeah woo it's an inception!

maybe he just didnt get the point of the story or something. I dont think you can act well if you cant get into the character

I enjoy Kevin Smith story time far more than his movies.

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He has a wife, you know?

None of those films feature any science.

Once Matrix got super popular Will slapped himself.