Yahoo Movies The Matrix co-creator Lilly Wachowski makes career change for new movie
The Matrix's Lilly Wachowski is making a big change for the upcoming movie Trash Mountain.
One half of the Wachowski directing duo (alongside sister Lana), Collider reports that Lilly is going solo behind the camera for the first time in her career.
She'll direct comedian Caleb Hearon in the new comedy, with Jurassic World's Colin Trevorrow on producing duties with his company Metronome Film Co.
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Trash Mountain centres on "a gay Chicago man in his 20s who must return to rural Missouri to deal with the death of his father — an obsessive hoarder who has left a house full of items, some valuable and some not so, to pick through".
In a statement, the filmmaker shared: "When my pal Caleb Hearon sent me Trash Mountain I leapt at the chance to direct it. So beautiful and sad and funny! Queer representation and stories are vital at this time as we are being shoved further into the margins. Our amazing writers, Caleb and Ruby are a shining light in all this dang darkness". Trevorrow, meanwhile, lauded the creative team as "true originals".
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Lilly famously co-directed The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, but hasn't made a feature since Jupiter Ascending in 2015, which earned two stars in Digital Spy's review.
Although sibling Lana returned for The Matrix Resurrections three years ago, Lilly did not, revealing to Entertainment Weekly at the time: "I got out of my [gender] transition and was just completely exhausted because we had made Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending, and the first season of Sense8 back-to-back-to-back.
"We were posting one, and prepping the other at the exact same time. So you're talking about three 100-plus days of shooting for each project, and so, coming out and just being completely exhausted... My world was like, falling apart to some extent even while I was like, you know, cracking out of my egg.
"So I needed this time away from this industry," she added. "I needed to reconnect with myself as an artist and I did that by going back to school and painting and stuff."
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