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Actress/Singer Aaliyah was originally cast in the role of Zee but was killed in a plane crash on 25 August 2001.
Gloria Foster 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.
This film and the sequel (Matrix Revolutions, The (2003)) took four years to make, and were filmed back to back.
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.
The sequels took so long to finish because several CGI firms went bankrupt while working on rendering the effects for both movies.
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.
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".
GM donated 300 cars for use in the production of the movie. All 300 were wrecked by the end.
There were several injuries on the set: Carrie-Anne Moss broke her leg training for a wire stunt, Laurence Fishburne fractured an arm in another training incident and Hugo Weaving put out a disc in his neck while being pulled back on a wire.
The film's concluding highway chase sequence took 45 days to shoot (longer than many films' entire shooting schedule).
Remain seated at the end of the credits.
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.
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.
Cameo: [Bill Pope] The director of photography makes an appearance as a security guard "who gets paid to count sheep".
The 100 Agent Smiths battle alone took two years to complete.
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.
Morpheus' line, "I had a dream, and now that dream is gone from me," is a quote from King Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible.
The Wachowski brothers' contract for doing the Matrix Reloaded, and Matrix Revolutions, included a stipulation that would not have to do any media interviews.
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.
Professional Taekwondo instructors were used for some of the stunts, including WTF silver medalist Master Timothy Connelly.
The Council in Zion consists of 18 people - 12 women, and six men.
Actress/Singer Aaliyah was originally cast in the role of Zee but was killed in a plane crash on 25 August 2001.
Gloria Foster 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.
This film and the sequel (Matrix Revolutions, The (2003)) took four years to make, and were filmed back to back.
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.
The sequels took so long to finish because several CGI firms went bankrupt while working on rendering the effects for both movies.
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.
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".
GM donated 300 cars for use in the production of the movie. All 300 were wrecked by the end.
There were several injuries on the set: Carrie-Anne Moss broke her leg training for a wire stunt, Laurence Fishburne fractured an arm in another training incident and Hugo Weaving put out a disc in his neck while being pulled back on a wire.
The film's concluding highway chase sequence took 45 days to shoot (longer than many films' entire shooting schedule).
Remain seated at the end of the credits.
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.
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.
Cameo: [Bill Pope] The director of photography makes an appearance as a security guard "who gets paid to count sheep".
The 100 Agent Smiths battle alone took two years to complete.
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.
Morpheus' line, "I had a dream, and now that dream is gone from me," is a quote from King Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible.
The Wachowski brothers' contract for doing the Matrix Reloaded, and Matrix Revolutions, included a stipulation that would not have to do any media interviews.
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.
Professional Taekwondo instructors were used for some of the stunts, including WTF silver medalist Master Timothy Connelly.
The Council in Zion consists of 18 people - 12 women, and six men.
