There Was a 'Matrix' and a 'Point Break' Reunion at the 'John Wick: Chapter 2' Premiere

Nick Schager
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The <i>Matrix</i> team (Photo: Warner Bros.)
The Matrix team (Photo: Warner Bros.)

There are only nine more days until John Wick: Chapter 2 blasts its way into theaters. The Chad Stahelski-directed sequel — about Keanu Reeves’s dog-loving super-assassin — is primed to deliver the same brand of ultraviolent “gun-fu” as its superlative 2015 predecessor. Moreover, it’s set to be the first big-screen collaboration between Reeves and Laurence Fishburne since they both completed work on the Wachowskis’ Matrix trilogy 14 years ago. On Monday night at the movie’s premiere and afterparty, they further upped the reunion ante by meeting with another of their computer-overlord-fighting comrades.

As seen in the above tweet, Reeves and Fishburne were joined at the John Wick debut in Los Angeles by Carrie-Ann Moss, who played Trinity — opposite Reeves’s Neo and Fishburne’s Morpheus — in the Matrix movies.

Moss wasn’t the only former Reeves co-star to make a showing at the premiere: His Point Break castmate Gary Busey and his Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure partner Alex Winter also showed up to support him.

Gary Busey and Keanu Reeves on Jan. 30. (Photo: Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
Gary Busey and Keanu Reeves on Jan. 30. (Photo: Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
Busey, Reeves, and John C. McGinley in <i>Point Break</i>. (Photo: 20th Century Fox Film Corp.)
Busey, Reeves, and John C. McGinley in Point Break. (Photo: 20th Century Fox Film Corp.)

Winter later tweeted his praise for Reeves’s new movie:

Director Stahelski, meanwhile, confessed that he was still excited about having staged a big-screen get-together between Reeves and Fishburne, telling Variety, “I didn’t think we had a chance to get Laurence for this, but Keanu ran into him and said he loved John Wick. I’m still pinching myself.”

Monday night’s reunion between the three Matrix stars will no doubt rekindle hopes that they’ll eventually find another project to work on, be it a future return to the Matrix universe or in a John Wick 3. For now, Moss remains busy with her work as attorney Jeri Hogarth in virtually every one of Marvel’s small-screen Netflix efforts, from Jessica Jones and Daredevil to the upcoming Iron Fist and The Defenders — which, if the comics can be used as a guide, may have her working as legal counsel for New York’s mightiest superheroes.

John Wick: Chapter 2 lands in theaters on Feb. 10.

Watch our interview with Laurence Fishburne: