How do you think The Animatrix compliments Matrix and Reloaded?
Chung: Each episode is very different. I think Final Flight of the Osiris is pretty crucial in understanding Reloaded. Some of them give information that is only suggested in the movies like The Second Renaissance, which deals with the mythology of the Matrix, and Kid’s Story, which gives you the background on one of the characters in Reloaded. As for the others, I think Andy and Larry [Wachowski] had a lot of ideas that the concept of the Matrix implied, which they had no way of fitting into [the feature films]. The Animatrix is an outlet for some of those ideas. TVGO: What’s next for you? Chung: I’ve been developing an independent feature project. It’ll be science fiction again, but much more far out. I’m hoping that movies like The Matrix prepare a general audience for those kinds of stories. Sci-fi movies are way, way behind sci-fi literature, like 20 or 30 years behind. Hollywood is just now doing all these Philip K. Dick adaptations.
