Continuing her knack of bagging big-budget offerings, Chopra sets her eyes on franchise’s next edition headlined by Keanu Reeves
MID-DAY (January 30, 2020)

After a two-year stint of consistently springing surprises on cinephiles, Priyanka Chopra Jonas has yet again made fans go: How did she do that?

After reports of her teaming up with Avengers: Endgame directors Russo Brothers hit headlines, it is now suggested that Chopra is in talks to feature in the coveted forthcoming franchise of The Matrix.

The upcoming fourth film will be headlined by Keanu Reeves again. Warner Bros and the Village Roadshow Limited film is being directed by series co-creator Lana Wachowski. Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Neil Patrick Harris are also associated with the project. Details about Chopra’s prospective character are currently under wraps.

The Matrix 4 cast has been in fight-training for weeks before production work starts in Northern California. The first film in the series released in 1999, and depicted a dystopian future where artificial beings have taken over humanity, which is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality, called the Matrix. It spawned two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, which released back-to-back in 2003.

Chopra, who was last seen in the Farhan Akhtar-starrer The Sky is Pink, will next be seen in Netflix’s We Can Be Heroes, by Robert Rodriguez, and an adaptation of the Man Booker Prize winning novel The White Tiger. She will film Matrix 4 in tandem with Citadel, an Amazon series with Richard Madden, from the Russo brothers.