The Deleted Subplot That Blew the Lid Off Here’s the kicker: in the original version of The Matrix, Neo wasn’t Morpheus’s first chosen “One.” He was the sixth.

Will Smith Stars in ‘The Matrix’ Parody 27 Years After Rejecting Neo Role Watch Smith in the music video for "Beautiful Scars," where the actor-rapper finally gets to take the red pill.

The Oscar-winner shared a brief video with a Matrix-style message reading, "In 1997, the Wachowskis offered Will Smith the role of Neo in The Matrix. Smith turned it down.

“In 1997, the Wachowskis offered Will Smith the role of Neo in ‘The Matrix.’ Smith turned it down,” his Instagram video, written in third-person, reads.

Typed out with mechanical keyboard clicks, Smith again regaled his millions of followers with the time in 1997 when “the Wachoswkis offered Will Smith the role of Neo in The Matrix.” ...

Because Neo’s evolution into a near-invincible demi-god made him impossible to relate to. In the original movie, we loved him because he was just a regular guy—confused, overwhelmed, and way ...

In his extensive efforts to turn back the clock on his aging, 46-year-old youth-obsessed tech mogul Bryan Johnson injected his face with "fat-derived extracellular matrix" — and the results are ...

" [It's like] the movie 'The Matrix' and Neo comes into that room with the young child with the bald head with the spoon and he says 'there is no spoon'. There is no ban. " ...

Neo, the hero of “ The Matrix,” is sure he lives in 1999. He has a green-hued cathode-ray-tube computer screen and a dot-matrix printer. His city has working phone booths.

They just don't make them like they used to. 5. Neo Spars Morpheus, in The Matrix (1999) (Image credit: Warner Bros.) "Morpheus is fighting Neo!" Cue everyone scrambling to get a front-row seat.

The Matrix: Path of Neo was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC on November 7, 2005. The game wasn't a masterpiece but it did a great job of making the players feel like they are in the ...