10 Movie Endings That KILLED Franchises For Good

10. Neo & Trinity Run The Matrix - The Matrix Resurrections

There were many who hoped - or at least assumed - that The Matrix Resurrections was intended to kickstart a new trilogy of Matrix movies led by a younger cast of characters, not unlike Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

But director Lana Wachowski couldn't have made her disinterest in The Matrix as an ongoing franchise any clearer.

Throughout Resurrections, Wachowski took a number of meta jabs at Warner Bros. and the soullessness of modern blockbuster IP in general, basically confessing in the middle of the movie that she only came back for a fourth film because the studio was going to make it without her regardless.

And so, Resurrections ends with antagonist The Analyst (Neil Patrick Harris) being summarily defeated, and Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) rebuilding the Matrix in their own image, both of them now apparently being versions of The One (The Two?).

Given that Wachowski has further stated that she has no interest in sequels, and Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss have both said they wouldn't return without her involvement, there's really no place for the series to go after this.

With all major conflicts resolved while Neo and Trinity are positioned as a basically unstoppable superhero pairing, the four-film arc feels neatly tied off. It's just as well, given that Resurrections was also a colossal box office bomb.

While it's inevitable that Warner Bros. will reboot The Matrix with an entirely new cast and crew years from now, the franchise as we know it was basically capped in the head by Resurrections' ending, and Wachowski evidently wouldn't have had it any other way.