The Matrix 4 Trailer Secretly Confirms How Neo Is Resurrected

After seemingly dying in the third film, Neo is alive again in The Matrix 4 and eagle-eyed viewers spotted how he was resurrected in the trailer. The new trailer for The Matrix Resurrections has secretly confirmed how Neo is still alive. The long-awaited fourth installment in the Matrix franchise recently dropped its first trailer and showed audiences a taste of what to expect when the sequel hits theaters in December. One of the biggest lingering questions about the story is how Neo has come back to life, and exactly what the machines that rule the world could hope to gain from his resurrection.

Up until the announcement of Keanu Reeves’ return to the role of Neo, it was believed that the character had perished at the end of 2003’s The Matrix Revolutions, the then-final installment in the series. At the end of the third film, Neo allows himself to be corrupted by the malignant Smith program, which gives the machine mainframe in the real world access to Smith’s code. When Smith is subsequently deleted and the Matrix itself reset and restored, Neo’s body is left (presumably) dead in the machine city, and the final shot of Neo in the film sees his corpse being enveloped by smaller machines. The assumption among viewers was that the machines were preparing to liquefy and consume Neo’s body, just as they did with other humans after their deaths. However, the trailer for The Matrix Resurrections seems to indicate there is much more to the story. As multiple eagle-eyed viewers (including Empire Magazine’s Ben Travis on Twitter) have already discovered, the preview includes a brief glimpse of what very well might be the resurrection of Neo and seems to confirm the fate of his body after the events of The Matrix Revolutions.